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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 1982
Filed:
May. 21, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B / ; C30B / ; C30B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422246 ; 156608 ; 1566 / ; 422249 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for making a single crystal which includes a sealed vessel, a crucible received in the sealed vessel to hold a molten liquid and a floating member having an opening for defining the cross sectional outline of a single crystal while being grown and floating on the molten liquid. The floating member is made from a sintered body consisting essentially of at least one of the oxides of yttrium and the lanthanum series elements, aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride and silicon nitride each in a prescribed amount.