| Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 204, 2018
International Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Conference 2018 (IMIEC 2018)
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| Article Number | 05013 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Material | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201820405013 | |
| Published online | 21 September 2018 | |
Numerical simulation of the oxygen distribution in silicon melt for different argon gas flow rates during Czochralski silicon crystal growth process
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Central University, No. 300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, 32001 Taoyuan County, Taiwan, ROC
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Corresponding author: zumrotulida@gmail.com
The effects of argon gas flow rate on the oxygen concentration in Czochralski (CZ) grown silicon crystal were examined. To analyze the influence of the argon gas flow rate in CZ growth process, a 200 mm length silicon single crystal was grown. Different argon gas flow rates are considered. The melt flow pattern, temperature and oxygen concentration distributions in the melt and crystal-melt interface are calculated. The results show that the transport of oxygen impurity is quite dependent on the flow motion in the melt. As the argon gas flow rate increases, there is no fundamental change in flow motion of the melt and the oxygen concentration decreases to a minimum value. When the argon gas flow rate increases further, the flow pattern under the melt-crystal interface starting changes and the oxygen concentration has increased after. Therefore, there is an optimum value for the argon gas flow rate for obtaining the lowest oxygen concentration in the melt.
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