Apparatus and process for producing a single crystal of silicon

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PATENT NO 9828692
APP PUB NO 20150292109A1
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14670477

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An apparatus for producing a single crystal of silicon comprises a plate with a top side, an outer edge, and an inner edge, a central opening adjoining the inner edge, and a tube extending from the central opening to beneath the bottom side of the plate;

    a device for metering granular silicon onto the plate;a first induction heating coil above the plate, provided for melting of the granular silicon deposited;a second induction heating coil positioned beneath the plate, provided for stabilization of a melt of silicon, the melt being present upon a growing single crystal of silicon. The top side of the plate consists of ceramic material and has elevations, the distance between the elevations in a radial direction being not less than 2 mm and not more than 15 mm.

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SILTRONIC AGEINSTEINSTR 172 TOWER B / BLUE TOWER 81677 MÜNCHEN 81677

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Brenninger, Georg Oberbergkirchen, DE 13 292
Haeberlen, Maik Burghausen, DE 5 48
Stein, Waldemar Burghausen, DE 2 2

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