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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1985

Filed:

Jan. 20, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:

Bruce H Chai, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Ernest Buehler, Chatham, NJ (US);

John J Flynn, Millington, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Allied Corporation, Morris Township, Morris County, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422209 ; 422241 ; 422242 ; 422254 ; 156D / ;
Abstract

Large single crystals of berlinite are grown onto seed crystals by maintaining the crystals at a fixed elevated temperature in a pressure vessel containing a nutrient of coarse berlinite crystalline powder, held at a fixed lower temperature, and concentrated phosphoric acid. Because berlinite shows retrograde solubility, the nutrient goes into solution, and berlinite deposits on the higher-temperature growing crystal. The vessel is rocked to promote motion of saturated solution to the crystal and depleted solution to the nutrient. Large single crystals of alpha-gallium orthophosphate may be grown using the same apparatus and a similar process. The resultant crystals may be cut into wafers useful in surface acoustic wave devices.


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