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The method is named after Polish scientist Jan Czochralski, [1] who invented the method in 1915 while investigating the crystallization rates of metals. [2] He made this discovery by accident: instead of dipping his pen into his inkwell, he dipped it in molten tin , and drew a tin filament, which later proved to be a single crystal . [ 3 ]
Silicon crystal in the beginning of the growth process Growing silicon crystal. Float-zone silicon is very pure silicon obtained by vertical zone melting.The process was developed at Bell Labs by Henry Theuerer in 1955 as a modification of a method developed by William Gardner Pfann for germanium.
Zone melting (or zone refining, or floating-zone method, or floating-zone technique) is a group of similar methods of purifying crystals, in which a narrow region of a crystal is melted, and this molten zone is moved along the crystal. The molten region melts impure solid at its forward edge and leaves a wake of purer material solidified behind ...
The video covers an area of 2.0 by 1.5 mm and was captured over 7.2 min. The crystallization process consists of two major events, nucleation and crystal growth which are driven by thermodynamic properties as well as chemical properties.
A typical feed has concentrations between 90–99%, which is purified up to 99.99 wt.-% or greater. For example, glacial acrylic acid, optical grade bisphenol-A and battery grade ethylene carbonate can be purified to their highest grade using a falling-film crystallizer.
Shaping processes in crystal growth are a collection of techniques for growing bulk crystals of a defined shape from a melt, usually by constraining the shape of the liquid meniscus by means of a mechanical shaper. Crystals are commonly grown as fibers, solid cylinders, hollow cylinders (or tubes), and sheets (or plates).
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The crystallization methods diverge during post-deposition processing. In aluminum-induced crystallization, a thin layer of aluminum (50 nm or less) is deposited by physical vapor deposition onto the surface of the amorphous silicon. This stack of material is then annealed at a relatively low temperature between 140 °C and 200 °C in a vacuum.