Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.

Hidetoshi Seki

Masahiko Baba

Seiichiro Ohtsuka

A method for growing an antimony-doped silicon single crystal having an oxygen concentration of 12 ppma or more is employed wherein the pressure of an atmospheric inert gas within the furnace is set at a range between 10 and 50 millibars (1000-5000 Pa), and also the reference rate of rotation of the quartz crucible is set at 5 rpm or more while pulling an antimony-doped silicon single crystal having an antimony concentration of 6.times.10.sup.18 atom/cc or more from an antimony-doped silicon melt contained in a quartz crucible according to the Czochralski process. The reference rate of rotation can be increased in accordance with the increasing length of the pulled single crystal, and further a pulse-like change in rotation rate can be superimposed over the reference rate of rotation, so that the pulled single crystal can have a high and axially and radially uniform oxygen concentration throughout the entire length of the single crystal.

Method for growing antimony-doped silicon single crystal

A method for controlling a specific resistance of a single crystal in a Czochralski-method type single crystal pulling apparatus having a hermetical chamber in which the single crystal is pulled up from a polycrystal melt and an inert gas supply and exhaust system by means of which an inert gas is supplied to the hermetical chamber and exhausted therefrom; the method being characterized in that the pneumatic pressure in the hermetical chamber and the supply rate of the inert gas are controlled in accordance with a prepared control pattern with respect to the passage of pulling time.

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Takasaki, Japan

Hidetoshi Seki