Inventor
KORB HAROLD W
US21 patents
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MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
13 patentsUS6562123B2May 13, 2003
Process for growing defect-free silicon wherein the grown silicon is cooled in a separate chamber
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS39 citations96
US5779791AJul 14, 1998
Process for controlling thermal history of Czochralski-grown silicon
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS67 citations93
US6361619B1Mar 26, 2002
Thermally annealed wafers having improved internal gettering
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS31 citations92
US6328795B2Dec 11, 2001
Process for growth of defect free silicon crystals of arbitrarily large diameters
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS25 citations92
US6284039B1Sep 4, 2001
Epitaxial silicon wafers substantially free of grown-in defects
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS27 citations92
US5676751AOct 14, 1997
Rapid cooling of CZ silicon crystal growth system
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS18 citations92
US7291221B2Nov 6, 2007
Electromagnetic pumping of liquid silicon in a crystal growing process
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS16 citations84
US5593498AJan 14, 1997
Apparatus for rotating a crucible of a crystal pulling machine
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS17 citations79
US7097718B2Aug 29, 2006
Single crystal silicon wafer having an epitaxial layer substantially free from grown-in defects
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS5 citations73
US6565649B2May 20, 2003
Epitaxial wafer substantially free of grown-in defects
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS9 citations73
US5550374AAug 27, 1996
Methods and apparatus for determining interstitial oxygen content of relatively large diameter silicon crystals by infrared spectroscopy
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS10 citations71
US6183553B1Feb 6, 2001
Process and apparatus for preparation of silicon crystals with reduced metal content
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS10 citations70
US6913647B2Jul 5, 2005
Process for cooling a silicon ingot having a vacancy dominated region to produce defect free silicon
MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS3 citations63
KIMBEL STEVEN L
2 patentsSREEDHARAMURTHY HARIPRASAD
2 patentsUS8551247B2Oct 8, 2013
Generating a pumping force in a silicon melt by applying a time-varying magnetic field
SREEDHARAMURTHY HARIPRASAD0 citations35
US8398765B2Mar 19, 2013
Controlling a melt-solid interface shape of a growing silicon crystal using an unbalanced magnetic field and iso-rotation
SREEDHARAMURTHY HARIPRASAD0 citations35