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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1985
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1983
Thomas N Jackson, Peekskill, NY (US);
Peter D Kirchner, Crompond, NY (US);
George D Pettit, Mahopac, NY (US);
James J Rosenberg, Bronx, NY (US);
Jerry M Woodall, Bedford Hills, NY (US);
Steven L Wright, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A quantity of silicon serving as a source of the element silicon for use in a molecular beam epitaxial growth apparatus where the silicon is in the form of a monocrystalline wafer with a plurality of electrically parallel filaments separated by slots that pass completely through the wafer, each filament having a length dimension that is greater than the width and height dimensions, joined at a broad contact area at each filament end and where an electric current is passed through the filaments through the broad contact areas.