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US 2012/0048183 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for growth of multi-component single crystals
AssigneeRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
InventorPartha Dutta
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Abstract
An apparatus for growth of uniform multi-component single crystals is provided. The single crystal material has at least three elements and has a diameter of at least 50 mm, a dislocation density of less than 100 cm−2 and a radial compositional variation of less than 1%.
Claims10
A single crystal growth apparatus, comprising:
- a vessel;
- a crystal growth seed mounting area in the vessel;
- a crystal growth area in the vessel adjacent to the crystal growth seed mounting area;
- a synthesizing melt area in the vessel;
- a thermal barrier separating the crystal growth area from the synthesizing melt area, the thermal barrier containing at least one opening connecting the crystal growth area to the synthesizing melt area;
- a solute source adapted to provide a solute into the synthesizing melt area;
- a heating element adapted to heat vessel to form a growth melt in the crystal growth area and to form a synthesizing melt in the synthesizing melt area.
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