Silicon Ingot Growth By An Oscillating Crucible Technique

Katherine A. Dumas; Guenter H. Schwuttke; Taher Daud

doi:10.1117/12.935695

8 September 1983 Silicon Ingot Growth By An Oscillating Crucible Technique

Katherine A. Dumas, Guenter H. Schwuttke, Taher Daud

Proceedings Volume 0407, Photovoltaics for Solar Energy Applications II; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.935695
Event: 1983 Technical Symposium East, 1983, Arlington, United States

Abstract

The efficiency of devices made from cast silicon is limited by structural factors such as dislocations and grain boundaries. Improving the crystallinity of this cast material continues to be an area of great importance to the photovoltaic community. To improve the solar cell performance, single crystal silicon with lower dislocation densities and silicon carbide inclusions are necessary. This paper describes an ingot growth technique which is designed to yield a high quality ingot. In this method, the crucible containing the melt is rotationally accelerated and decelerated periodically. This oscillation is intended to homogenize the solution by effectively stirring the melt. Several ingots were directionally solidified using this Oscillating Crucible Technique (OCT) with the result that single crystallinity was achieved to the top of the ingot and approximately 70% of the ingot was single crystal. Using an IR spectrophotometer, the interstitial oxygen and substitutional carbon content was measured and found to be uniform over the entire ingot. Details of the crystal growth conditions and resultant structure with chemical analysis is presented.

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Katherine A. Dumas, Guenter H. Schwuttke, and Taher Daud "Silicon Ingot Growth By An Oscillating Crucible Technique", Proc. SPIE 0407, Photovoltaics for Solar Energy Applications II, (8 September 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.935695

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