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GE GLOBAL SOURCING LLC	901 MAIN AVENUE NORWALK CT 06851

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• 0805:OTHER TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS

• 2016 Application Filing Year
• 0805 Class
• 624 Applications Filed
• 624 Patents Issued To-Date
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Inventor Name	Address	# of filed Patents	Total Citations
Kandakur, Rajeev	Bangalore, IN	5	28
# of filed Patents : 5 Total Citations : 28
Nandigavi, Jagadeesh	Bangalore, IN	3	14
# of filed Patents : 3 Total Citations : 14

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• 4 Citation Count
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Full Text

US Patent No: 7708829

Method and apparatus for crystal growth

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Abstract

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A method and apparatus for growing a crystalline or poly-crystalline body from a melt is described, wherein the melt is retained by capillary attachment to edge features of a mesa crucible. The boundary profile of the resulting melt surface results in an effect which induces a ribbon grown from the surface of the melt to grow as a flat body. Further, the size of the melt pool is substantially reduced by bringing these edges close to the ribbon, thereby reducing the materials cost and electric power cost associated with the process.

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