IP Library Granted Patent US 12662748
Granted Patent B2
US 12662748 · App. 18/265,070 · Granted Jun 23, 2026

Silicon single crystal growing method

Inventors: Takashi Izeki (Nagasaki, JP); Yasuhito Narushima (Nagasaki, JP)
Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATION
C30B15/04C30B15/20C30B29/06
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12662748
App. No.
18/265,070
Filed
Jun 2, 2023
Granted
Jun 23, 2026
Kind
B2
Examiner
QI, HUA
Art Unit
1714
USPC
117/19
Abstract

There is provided a growing method of monocrystalline silicon including: pulling up monocrystalline silicon from a dopant-added melt in which a dopant is added to a silicon melt and growing the monocrystalline silicon according to Czochralski process, in which the monocrystalline silicon is grown by calculating a critical CV value, which is a product of a dopant concentration C and a pull-up speed V at a point of time when an abnormal growth occurred in the monocrystalline silicon; and controlling at least one of the dopant concentration C or the pull-up speed V to make a CV value, which is a product of the dopant concentration C and the pull-up speed V at the point of time, below the critical CV value.

Claims (11)

1 . A growing method of pulling up monocrystalline silicon from a dopant-added melt in which a dopant is added to a silicon melt and growing the monocrystalline silicon according to a Czochralski process, the growing method comprising:

in a case that an abnormal growth occurs in the monocrystalline silicon, calculating a critical CV value, which is a product of a dopant concentration C and a pull-up speed V at a solidification rate at a point of time when the abnormal growth occurs, and creating a critical CV value profile;

creating a target CV value profile by using a target CV value that is less than 90% and equal to or more than 50% of the critical CV value at each solidification rate in the critical CV value profile, and

resetting at least one of a pull-up speed profile or a resistivity profile in a crystal axis direction to make a CV value, which is a product of the dopant concentration C and the pull-up speed V at each solidification rate of the monocrystalline silicon, satisfy the target CV value at each solidification rate in the target CV value profile.

2 . The growing method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the resetting comprises creating a modified pull-up speed profile constituted by a pull-up speed corresponding to the target CV value profile.

3 . The growing method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the resetting comprises creating a modified resistivity profile constituted by a resistivity corresponding to the target CV value profile.

4 . The growing method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the dopant concentration C is a dopant concentration in the monocrystalline silicon, and

the dopant concentration in the monocrystalline silicon is calculated from a resistance value of the monocrystalline silicon by using a relational expression of the dopant concentration in the monocrystalline silicon and the resistivity of the monocrystalline silicon.