Daimler Chrysler Ag

Sitec Gmbh

Centrotherm Sitec Gmbh

Frank Stubhan

Hans-Juergen Fuesser

Mona Ferguson

Michael Leck

Vollmar Wilfried

A clamping and contacting device for mounting and electrically contacting thin silicon rods in silicon deposition reactors is disclosed, the clamping and contacting device having a rod holder for receiving one end of a thin silicon rod. The rod holder comprises at least three contact elements disposed around a receiving space for the thin silicon rod. Each of the contact elements forms a contact surface facing towards a receiving space for electrically and mechanically contacts the thin silicon rod, wherein the contact surfaces of adjacent contact elements are spaced apart.

Clamping and contacting device for thin silicon rods

A composite structure having a substantially monocrystalline growth substrate and at least one monocrystalline or polycrystalline layer of diamond or diamond-like material arranged on a surface of the growth substrate, the surface of the growth substrate being provided with crystal growth nuclei having crystal axes which exhibit an inclination of not more than 10%, preferably not more than 7%, with respect to corresponding axes of the crystal lattice of the growth substrate, and a process for producing such a composite structure in which the growth substrate is pretreated and growth nuclei are deposited from a nucleating gas phase of known composition for depositing layers of diamond or diamond-like material, in which during the nucleation the growth substrate is raised to a negative electrical potential relative to the nucleating gas phase.

Composite structure and process for producing it

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Ehingen, Germany

Frank Stubhan