His name may be almost impossible to pronounce for non-Polish speakers, but without Jan Czochralski, IT as we know it would not exist. Wednesday is the birthday of the chemist and metallurgist who, ...

Research from the Chin-Yi University of Technology in Taiwan revealed a novel heater design in the Czochralski silicon crystal growth process that can control and decrease oxygen concentration without ...

Silicon is still the most popular solar-cell material for commercial applications because it is so readily abundant (it is actually the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust-second only to ...

Solar-grade quasi-monocrystalline silicon (mono-Si) wafers based on the manufacturing process of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) wafers can achieve over 95% of the quality of mono-Si wafers based on ...

A silicon wafer is a thin slice of crystalline silicon typically grown using the Czochralski process, which involves pulling a crystal seed from a molten silicon bath. A silicon wafer is a thin slice ...

Scientists in China analyzed defective solar cells based on Czochralski (Cz) silicon wafers and found Swirl defects may be responsible for an efficiency drop of up to 4.7%. According to them, the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Linton Crystal Technologies (LCT) introduces the KX320MCZR, a Czochralski (CZ) process crystal grower designed to meet growing market demands for a furnace capable of ...