Globalwafers Co., Ltd.

Sunedison Semiconductor Limited

Kirk D McCallum

Carissima Marie Hudson

Hariprasad Sreedharamurthy

Gaurab Samanta

Soubir Basak

HyungMin Lee

Jae-Woo Ryu

An method for producing a silicon ingot includes melting polycrystalline silicon in a crucible enclosed in a vacuum chamber to form a melt, generating a cusped magnetic field within the vacuum chamber, dipping a seed crystal into the melt, withdrawing the seed crystal from the melt to pull a single crystal that forms the silicon ingot, wherein the silicon ingot has a diameter greater than about 150 millimeters (mm), and simultaneously regulating a plurality of process parameters such that the silicon ingot has an oxygen concentration less than about 5 parts per million atoms (ppma). The plurality of process parameters include a wall temperature of the crucible, a transport of silicon monoxide (SiO) from the crucible to the single crystal, and an evaporation rate of SiO from the melt.

Methods for producing low oxygen silicon ingots

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Wentzville, MO, United States of America

Kirk D McCallum