摘要:
Methods for producing an off-orientation single crystal silicon wafer are disclosed. After a single crystal silicon ingot is grown, the single crystal silicon ingot is ground to increase an off-orientation of the single crystal silicon ingot. A wafer is sliced from ground single crystal silicon ingot. The wafer has an off-orientation greater than the ground single crystal silicon ingot.
摘要:
A crystal ingot puller includes a crucible for holding a crystal melt, a crystal puller housing that defines a growth chamber, and a polycrystalline feed system for supplying chunk polycrystalline to the crucible. The polycrystalline feed system includes a feed tube having an outer sidewall, an inlet end and an outlet end, and a cooling jacket surrounding the outer sidewall of the feed tube at the outlet end of the feed tube. The cooling jacket cools the outlet end during operation of the ingot puller.
摘要:
An improvement to a method and an apparatus for growing a monocrystalline silicon ingot from silicon melt according to the CZ process. The improvement performs defining an error between a target taper of a meniscus and a measured taper, and translating the taper error into a feedback adjustment to a pull-speed of the silicon ingot. The conventional control model for controlling the CZ process relies on linear control (PID) controlling a non-linear system of quadratic relationship defined in the time domain between the diameter and the pull-speed. The present invention transforms the quadratic relationship in the time domain between the diameter and the pull-speed into a simile, linear relationship in the length domain between a meniscus taper of the ingot and the pull-speed. The present invention applies a linear control (modified PID) which operates in the length domain, and controls a system that has a linear relationship between the ingot taper and the pull-speed in the length domain to control the diameter of a growing silicon ingot.
摘要:
The growth of bismuth silicate crystals occurs in a high pressure vessel or autoclave using a hydrothermal growth process. The nutrient material is placed in a sealed container of noble metal, liner, along with a solvent to a selected fill level. A filler fluid is also placed between the liner and the pressure vessel. The oriented seeds are placed in the cooler top seed zone over a baffle that slows the movement of supersaturated liquid from the hotter lower nutrient zone. Using a selected heating schedule for the top and the bottom zones, a plurality of large crystals are grown in the seed zone. The temperature differential is about 5.degree. C.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for producing a manganese-zinc ferrite single crystal using a local liquid pool formation which involves melting of a starting material in a crucible and lowering of the temperature of crucible to make the resultant melt maintain form three phase regions of an upper liquid pool region, an intermediate semi-rigid region and a lower solid region. A pair of heaters are disposed at the upper and side wall portions of crucible and controlled differently from each other so that the formed lower solid region extends at its peripheral portion throughout the inner surface of the side wall portion of the crucible, thereby minimizing the contact of the formed upper liquid pool region with the whole inner surface of the crucible. For monitoring respective temperatures of various portions in the crucible to control the heaters, there are provided thermocouples which includes a thermocouple for the crystal drawing port member, a thermocouple for the upper portion of crucible, a thermocouple for the upper portion of the side wall of crucible and a thermocouple for the lower portion of crucible.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for stabilizing the edge positions of a ribbon drawn from a melt includes the use of wettable strings drawn in parallel up through the melt surface, the ribbon being grown between the strings. A furnace and various features of the crucible used therein permit continuous automatic growth of flat ribbons without close temperature control or the need for visual inspection.
摘要:
An economical method is presented for forming thin sheets of crystalline silicon suitable for use in a photovoltaic conversion cell by solidification from the liquid phase. Two spatially separated, generally coplanar filaments wettable by liquid silicon and joined together at the end by a bridge member are immersed in a silicon melt and then slowly withdrawn from the melt so that a silicon crystal is grown between the edge of the bridge and the filaments.
摘要:
This invention involves a method and apparatus for drawing crystalline bodies from a melt by means of an open-ended drawing nozzle which determines the cross-sectional geometry of the crystalline body. The drawing nozzle is composed of a material which is resistant to the melt. The feed of melt proceeds from a reservoir situated at the lower end of the drawing nozzle and the melt is conveyed to the upper opening thereof by capillary action. In keeping with the present invention, there is provided a drawing nozzle which has an upper opening merging into a contoured surface such that the meniscus formed at the interface between the crystalline and molten phases is freely displaceable on the contoured surface into which the upper opening discharges.
摘要:
A process for treatment of a liquid mass is described, wherein a liquid mass of a material is separated from a gas-permeable wall for shaping, positioning or moulding the same by means of a gaseous film formed by a gas permeating through a wall of the container.
摘要:
An apparatus for pulling monocrystalline ribbons of silicon from a melt of silicon, which includes a shaping guide, through which the ribbon is pulled, having a heat retentive coating of a material, such as platinum, on the top surface of the guide. The shaping guide preferably includes 45* converging beveled lips on the bottom side thereof oriented toward the melt from which the ribbon is drawn for directing the melt into a rectangular slot formed in the shaping guide near the top surface. The rectangular slot serves to form the silicon in shape of a ribbon. The apparatus also preferably includes a heat reflective member supported above the shaping guide by a quartz pedestal. The heat reflective member serves to assist the coating on the top surface of the shaping guide in maintaining a low temperature differential between the top and bottom surfaces of the shaping guide.