IP Library Granted Patent US 7,553,373
Granted Patent B2
US 7,553,373 · App. 11/435,762 · Granted Jun 30, 2009

Silicon carbide single crystal and production thereof

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Patent No.
US 7,553,373
App. No.
11/435,762
Granted
Jun 30, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of producing a silicon carbide single crystal, having: fixing a seed crystal, including setting a seed crystal on a seed crystal fixing part with interposition of an adhesive; applying a uniform pressure on the entire surface of the seed crystal by contacting a flexible bag which is inflatable and deflatable to the seed crystal by charging a gas into the to flexible bag; hardening the adhesive; and sublimating a silicon carbide powder obtained by calcinating a mixture containing at least a silicon source and a resol xylene resin, having a nitrogen content of 100 mass ppm or less and having a content of each impurity elements of 0.1 mass ppm or less, and re-crystallizing for growing a silicon carbide single crystal.

Claims (4)

1. A method of producing a silicon carbide single crystal, comprising:

fixing a seed crystal, including setting a seed crystal on a seed crystal fixing part with interposition of an adhesive; applying a uniform pressure on the entire surface of the seed crystal by contacting a flexible bag which is inflatable and deflatable to the seed crystal by charging a gas into the to flexible bag; hardening the adhesive; and

sublimating a silicon carbide powder obtained by calcinating a mixture containing at least a silicon source and a resol xylene resin, having a nitrogen content of 100 mass ppm or less and having a content of each impurity elements of 0.1 mass ppm or less, and re-crystallizing for growing a silicon carbide single crystal.

2. The method of producing a silicon carbide single crystal according to claim 1 , wherein the silicon carbide powder has nitrogen content of 50 mass ppm or less.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 29, 2013
From: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
To: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
Reel/Frame 031111/0598 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2006
From: OTSUKI, MASASHI; MARUYAMA, TAKAYUKI; ENDO, SHIGEKI; KONDO, DAISAKU; MONBARA, TAKUYA
To: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 018102/0040 →