Method for manufacturing silicon single crystal, flow straightening member, and single crystal pulling device
AssigneeSumco Corporation
InventorsFukuo OGAWA, Yasuhito NARUSHIMA, Koichi MAEGAWA, Yasufumi KAWAKAMI
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Abstract
A manufacturing method of monocrystalline silicon includes: disposing a flow regulator including a body in a form of an annular plate, provided under a heat shield, surrounding monocrystalline silicon; controlling an internal pressure of a chamber to 20 kPa or more during growth of monocrystalline silicon; keeping the flow regulator spaced from a dopant-added melt; and introducing inert gas into between the monocrystalline silicon and the heat shield to divide the inert gas into a first flow gas and a second flow gas.
Claims9
A manufacturing method of monocrystalline silicon using a monocrystal pull-up apparatus, the monocrystal pull-up apparatus comprising:
- a crucible;
- a crucible driver configured to raise, lower and rotate the crucible;
- a heater configured to heat the crucible to generate a dopant-added melt in which a dopant is added to a silicon melt;
- a pull-up portion configured to bring a seed crystal into contact with the dopant-added melt and subsequently pull up the seed crystal to grow monocrystalline silicon;
- a cylindrical heat shield provided above the crucible, surrounding the monocrystalline silicon;
- a chamber housing the crucible, the heater and the heat shield;
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- an intake provided on an upper side of the chamber and configured to introduce inert gas into the chamber,
- the manufacturing method comprising:
- disposing a flow regulator under the heat shield, the flow regulator comprising an annular plate body surrounding the monocrystalline silicon;
- during growth of the monocrystalline silicon, simultaneously,
- controlling an internal pressure of the chamber to 20 kPa or more;
- keeping the flow regulator spaced from the dopant-added melt;
- and
- introducing the inert gas from above to between the monocrystalline silicon and the heat shield to divide the inert gas into a first flow gas flowing along a first flow path between the heat shield and the flow regulator to be away from the monocrystalline silicon and a second flow gas flowing along a second flow path between the flow regulator and a surface of the dopant-added melt to be away from the monocrystalline silicon.
A flow regulator attached to a monocrystal pull-up apparatus, the monocrystal pull-up apparatus comprising:
- a crucible;
- a crucible driver configured to raise, lower and rotate the crucible;
- a heater configured to heat the crucible to generate a dopant-added melt in which a dopant is added to a silicon melt;
- a pull-up portion configured to bring a seed crystal into contact with the dopant-added melt and subsequently pull up the seed crystal to grow monocrystalline silicon;
- a cylindrical heat shield provided above the crucible, surrounding the monocrystalline silicon;
- a chamber housing the crucible, the heater and the heat shield;
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- an intake provided on an upper side of the chamber and configured to introduce inert gas into the chamber,
- the flow regulator comprising:
- a body in a form of an annular plate, provided under the heat shield and surrounding the monocrystalline silicon, the body forming a first flow path between the body and the heat shield and forming a second flow path between the body and a surface of the dopant-added melt;
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- an extension extending diagonally upward and outward from an outer edge of the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.