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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 1979
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Walter Heywang, Neukeferloh, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin & Munich, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156605 ; 156620 ; 156D / ; 148191 ;
Abstract
A germanium body containing impurities therein, such as B or Al is provided with a layer of a gettering material such as pure Si or SiO.sub.2, along at least one surface of the body, a melt zone is generated about the so-coated body and passed a number of times from one end of the body to the other whereby the gettering material binds the impurities within the germanium body and complex-impurity compounds accumulate at the respective ends of the body. After a desired degree of purity is achieved, the melt zone is deenergized and the impurity-containing ends are severed from the remaining body portion and any excess gettering material is removed.