Siltronic Ag

Pv Silicon Forschungs Und Produktions Gmbh

Forschungsverbund Berlin E.v.

Pv Silicon Forschungs- Und Produktions Ag.

Pv Crystalox Solar Silicon Gmbh

Helge Riemann

Wilfried Von Ammon

Jörg Fischer

Joerg Fischer

Ludwig Altmannshofer

Nikolai V Abrosimov

Matthias Renner

Anke Luedge

Andris Muiznieks

Friedrich-Wilhelm Schulze

Michael WÜNSCHER

Nikolai Abrosimov

Anke Lüdge

A method for producing a single crystal of semiconductor material having material properties of a zone-pulled single crystal includes providing a vessel transmissive to high frequency magnetic fields and having a granulate of a granular semiconductor material disposed therein and a first conductor disposed externally thereto. A high frequency current is supplied to a planar inductor disposed above the vessel, the planar inductor having a turn and a slit as a current supply so as to produce an open melt lake on the granulate by a temperature field at a surface of the granulate produced by thermal power of the planar inductor and a heating action of the first inductor, the melt lake being embedded in unmelted material of the granular semiconductor material and not being in contact with a wall of the vessel. A single crystal is pulled form the melt lake of the semiconductor material upwards.

Method and apparatus for producing single crystals composed of semiconductor material

An induction heating coil melts granules composed of semiconductor material on a plate with an outlet tube. The induction heating coil has a coil body provided with current-guiding slots, the coil body having an upper side and a lower side and having a passage opening for granules in a region of the coil body that lies outside the center of the coil, and current-carrying segments which project from the center of the lower side of the coil body and which are electrically conductively connected by a web at a lower end.

Induction heating coil and method for melting granules composed of semiconductor material

A single crystal of semiconductor material is produced by a method of melting semiconductor material granules by means of a first induction heating coil on a dish with a run-off tube consisting of the semiconductor material, forming a melt of molten granules which extends from the run-off tube in the form of a melt neck and a melt waist to a phase boundary, delivering heat to the melt by means of a second induction heating coil which has an opening through which the melt neck passes, crystallizing the melt at the phase boundary, and delivering a cooling gas to the run-off tube and to the melt neck in order to control the axial position of an interface between the run-off tube and the melt neck.

Method for producing a single crystal of semiconductor material

A method of making a single-crystalline Si wafer with an approximately polygonal cross section and having a material property that is the same as a zone-pulled Si crystal, and the single-crystalline Si wafer. The method includes pulling at least one bottle neck of a crystal vertically downwards from a rotating hanging melt drop. The rotational speed of the crystal is reduced to between 0 and less than 1 rpm. In a crystal-growth phase, a Si single crystal ingot is pulled vertically downwards with an approximately polygonal cross section. An inductor is used to generate a temperature profile at a growth phase boundary of the crystal that corresponds to the shape of a cross section of the pulled Si single crystal ingot. The growth is ended at a desired pulling length and the Si single crystal ingot is cut into wafers having an approximately polygonal cross section.

Method for producing a monocrystalline Si wafer having an approximately polygonal cross-section and corresponding monocrystalline Si wafer

A method for producing thin silicon rods using a floating zone crystallization process includes supplying high frequency (HF) current to a flat induction coil having a central opening, a plurality of draw openings and a plate with a slot as a current supply of the HF current so as to provide a circumfluent current to the central opening. An upper end of a raw silicon rod is heated by induction using the flat induction coil so as to form a melt pool. A thin silicon rod is drawn upwards through each of the plurality of draw openings in the flat induction coil from the melt pool without drawing a thin silicon rod through the central opening having the circumfluent current.

Method and device for producing thin silicon rods

The invention relates to a device for the production of crystal rods having a defined cross-section and a column-shaped polycrystalline structure by means of floating-zone continuous crystallization, comprising at least one crucible filled with crystalline material, provided with a central deviation for transporting the contents of the crucible to a growing crystal rod arranged below the crucible, whereby the central deviation plunges into the melt meniscus, also comprising means for continuously adjustable provision of crystalline material to the crucible, and means for simultaneously feeding the melt energy and adjusting the crystallization front. In order to produce crystal rods having a defined diameter and a column-shaped polycrystalline structure using heating means which are technically less complex, while at the same time guaranteeing high crystallization rates and stable phase definition, the means for simultaneously feeding the melt energy and adjusting the crystallization front on the growing crystal rod () is a flat induction coil () which has an opening, said induction coil () being arranged at a distance from the crucible () and/or being vertically moveable in relation to the crystallization front.

Device for the production of crystal rods having a defined cross-section and column-shaped polycrystallization structure by means of floating-zone continuous crystallization

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Helge Riemann