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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2012
Applicant:
Wacker Chemie Ag, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
WACKER CHEMIE AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 33/029 (2006.01); C01B 33/035 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 33/029 (2013.01); C01B 33/035 (2013.01); Y10T 428/298 (2015.01); Y10T 428/2978 (2015.01);
Abstract
Polycrystalline silicon rods produced by the Siemens process produce a higher yield of CZ crystals when the process parameters are modified in a second stage of deposition such that an outer layer of larger crystallites having a mean swize >20 μm is produced. Harvesting of these polycrystalline rods and conventional rods by enclosing them in a plastic bag or sheath prior to removal from the reactor also surprisingly increase the yield of CZ crystals grown from a melt containing the sheathed rods.