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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph Lindmayer, Bethesda, MD (US);
Assignee:
Semix Incorporated, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428 64 ; 423348 ; 428446 ;
Abstract
A method of producing semicrystalline silicon by heating the silicon to a molten state and gradually cooling the silicon to mitigate disruptions in the silicon continuum and promote semicrystalline growth. The product formed is a silicon body, which may be sliced into wafers having highly ordered grains of a mean diameter of at least about one mm.