Vitreous silica crucible

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8936684
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13308344

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The present invention provides a vitreous silica crucible which can suppress buckling and sidewall lowering of the crucible and the generation of cracks. According to the present invention, a vitreous silica crucible is provided for pulling a silicon single crystal having a wall, the wall including a non-doped inner surface layer made of natural vitreous silica or synthetic vitreous silica, a mineralizing element-maldistributed vitreous silica layer containing dispersed island regions each containing a mineralizing element, and wherein the vitreous silica of the island regions and the vitreous silica of a surrounding region of the island regions is a combination of mineralizing element-doped natural vitreous silica and non-doped synthetic vitreous silica, or a combination of mineralizing element-doped synthetic vitreous silica and non-doped natural vitreous silica, and the inner surface layer is made of vitreous silica of a different kind from that of the island region.

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JAPAN SUPER QUARTZ CORPORATIONAKITA-SHI AKITA-KEN 010-0065

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Kishi, Hiroshi Akita, JP 143 1432
Kitahara, Ken Akita, JP 29 92
Sudo, Toshiaki Akita, JP 56 140

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