Method of exhausting silicon oxide

Details Method of exhausting silicon oxide Method of exhausting silicon oxide

1995-04-20

1996-11-12

Breneman, R. Bruce

Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes;

Processes of growth from liquid or supercritical state

Having pulling during growth

117 13, C30B 1520

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055735916

ABSTRACT:
A monocrystal pulling apparatus according to the Czochralski technique, provided with a flow controller which guides a carrier gas supplied from the top of a pulling cheer to the surface of a melt of a material forming the monocrystal and exhausts the silicon oxide vaporizing from the surface of the melt to the outside of the pulling chamber and which surrounds the pulled monocrystal near the surface of the melt and is provided partially inside a crucible, wherein the flow controller has a tubular portion which has an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the crucible and extends substantially perpendicularly along the direction of downward flow of the carrier gas, a constricted diameter portion which constricts in diameter from the bottom end of the tubular portion and forms a bottom gap with the pulled monocrystal, and an engagement portion which projects out from the top of the tubular portion and forms a top gap at the outer circumference of the tubular portion of the flow controller by supporting the flow controller partially in the pulling chamber. As a result, a first flow path through which the carrier gas flows toward said bottom gap is defined between the inside of the tubular portion and the pulled monocrystal, a second flow path is defined comprised of a flow path of the carrier gas passing through the top gap and a flow path of the carrier gas passing from the first flow path through the bottom gap and then passing between the surface of the silicon melt and flow controller. The silicon oxide is exhausted together with the carrier gas through the second flow path to the outside of the pulling chamber.

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