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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2009
Applicants:

Atsushi Shimazu, Akita, JP;

Tadahiro Sato, Akita, JP;

Inventors:

Atsushi Shimazu, Akita, JP;

Tadahiro Sato, Akita, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B 35/00 (2006.01); C03B 19/09 (2006.01); C30B 15/10 (2006.01); C03C 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 19/095 (2013.01); C30B 15/10 (2013.01); C30B 35/002 (2013.01); C03C 15/00 (2013.01); Y10T 117/1032 (2015.01);
Abstract

There is provided a silica crucible for pulling a silicon single crystal, comprising silica glass and having a two-layer structure of an outer layer and an inner layer, wherein the inner layer, in a sectional side view of the crucible, has a wavy inner surface shape having mountain parts and valley parts at least between a start position and an end position for the pulling of a silicon single crystal in a silicon melt surface, and when a distance from an upper opening end of the crucible to the start position for the pulling of the silicon single crystal is 100, only a crucible portion from the upper opening end to a position within a range of 40 to 100 is crystalline.


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