KR20110088688A - Silicon Single Crystal Ingot Forming Device - Google Patents
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Abstract
Description
The present invention relates to a silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus, and more particularly, the upper end is spaced a predetermined distance by the inlet space and the incision of the adapter at the lower end of the wire that is rotated, lifted, and lowered by the wire pulling unit. The present invention relates to a silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus having a housing body having symmetrically formed adapter receiving grooves on each side thereof, so that the seed connecting chuck and the wire adapter can be easily detached during internal maintenance work or wire replacement of the single crystal ingot forming apparatus.
In general, a silicon wafer used in semiconductor manufacturing is a polysilicon placed in a heating furnace (quartz crucible) of a single crystal growth apparatus, followed by fusion heating to form a silicon single crystal ingot in the form of a round rod, which is then plated. It is made by cutting.
This silicon-crystal single crystal ingot is grown by the cz (Chocoralsk) method or the fz (plot zone) method, and about 80% of the silicon substrate is used by the cz method. The cz method is a technique of attaching seed crystals to the shaft of a silicon listing device and pulling a melt (silicon polycrystal) into a quartz crucible.
As such, the silicon single crystal ingot is mounted on the seed connecting chuck at the end of the wire connected to the motor, and is processed while being rotated in a quartz crucible.
Referring to FIG. 1, a typical silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus includes a
In order to manufacture the silicon single crystal ingot (I) using the above-described ingot forming apparatus, first, ultra high purity polycrystalline silicon and boron are charged into a
The
Subsequently, after soaking the seed crystals connected by the
A wire pulling unit (not shown) is formed on the upper portion of the
The wire pulling unit winds up the wire W and grows at the same time as the single crystal ingot I grows.
The
At this time, the seed crystal connected to the seed connecting chuck (6) is rotated in the opposite direction to the rotation direction of the crucible (3) about the same axis as the shaft axis (2) of the quartz crucible (3), the silicon solution ( The solid-liquid interface of S) and the seed crystal is grown to single crystal ingot (I) while being raised to maintain the same height.
Referring to FIG. 2, the
The
An insertion hole through which the wire W penetrates is formed at the lower end of the wire W, and an
The housing
An upper portion of the
Adapter (63) fixed to the lower end of the wire (W) is inserted laterally through the adapter inlet of the
However, such a connection structure between the
Accordingly, in order to separate the
Therefore, there is a need for an apparatus for preventing the damage to the
The present invention is to solve the above problems, a structure in which the inlet space and the incision is formed in the housing body of the seed connection chuck provided for mounting the silicon single crystal ingot on the lower end of the wire is adjusted by the insertion of screws To achieve this, it is an object of the present invention to provide a silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus that can be easily removed without damaging the seed connecting chuck when the wire is replaced.
In the structure of the present invention for achieving the above object, in the silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus comprising a reaction chamber, a chamber raising and lowering unit, a wire pulling unit and a seed connecting chuck to produce a silicon single crystal ingot that is the base material of the silicon wafer The seed connecting chuck may include: a cylindrical adapter having a step in which an insertion hole through which a wire penetrates is formed in a center thereof, and an outer circumference of the lower part is wider than an outer circumference of the upper part; In the form of a rod having a rounded upper end portion, the upper portion has an inflow space penetrating to both sides to allow the adapter to flow therein, and an inner surface of each of the upper ends facing each other by a cutout extending vertically from the inflow space. The housing body is spaced apart from the predetermined interval, the center of the inner surface of the upper end of each adapter receiving groove corresponding to the upper circumference of the adapter is symmetrically formed; And a seed chuck having an upper end detachably coupled to a lower side of the housing body, and having a silicon single crystal ingot grown from seed crystals at a lower portion thereof.
In addition, the outer surface of the upper end of the housing body is formed through the screw coupling hole through the inner surface of the incision, characterized in that the gap between the incision is opened by a tilting action by inserting a screw into the screw coupling hole.
In addition, the screw coupling hole is formed on both sides of the adapter receiving groove, characterized in that forming a pair.
In the present invention, the housing main body has an adapter inlet space in the seed connecting chuck provided at the lower end of the wire, and the upper end is formed by a cut-off spaced by a predetermined interval, and the adapter receiving grooves facing each other on the inner side thereof are symmetrically formed. By fixing the insertion, the operator has the effect of allowing the wire adapter to be easily removable without damaging the seed connecting chuck by screw adjustment.
1 is a view schematically showing the configuration of a conventional silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus in the related art.
2 is a cross-sectional view showing the structure of a conventional seed connecting chuck.
3 is a cross-sectional view showing a seed connecting chuck connection structure of the present invention.
4 is a perspective view showing the shape of the seed connecting chuck of the present invention.
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and in the following description, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related well-known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, The description may be omitted.
In the silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus of the present invention, the reaction chamber for heating polycrystalline silicon to be melted into a silicon solution S and the wire W are wound around the
At this time, the seed crystal mounted on the seed connecting chuck 100 at the lower end of the wire W is immersed in the silicon solution S in the reaction chamber, and gradually pulled while being rotated by the wire pulling unit, and is exposed to room temperature. It is grown into a silicon single crystal ingot (I).
3 is a cross-sectional view showing a seed connection chuck connection structure of the present invention, Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the shape of the seed connection chuck of the present invention.
3 to 4, the shape and structure of the seed connecting chuck provided in the silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus of the present invention will be described.
The seed connecting chuck 100 according to the present invention has a structure including an
The
The housing
At this time, the
In addition, the
Accordingly, when the seed connecting chuck 100 is heated inside the
At this time, the
And, the
A coupling protrusion is formed at a lower portion of the
Accordingly, the seed connection chuck 100 of the present invention can easily detach the
As such, although the invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the invention is not limited thereto and is within the scope of equivalents of ordinary skill and the claims to be described below in the technical field to which the invention pertains. Various modifications and variations are possible, of course.
100: seed connecting chuck 110: housing body
111: upper portion 112: inlet space
113: incision 115: screwing hole
120: seed chuck 130: adapter
h: Adapter groove I: Ingot
W: wire
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The seed connection chuck is:
A cylindrical adapter having a step in which an insertion hole through which a wire penetrates is formed in a center thereof, and the outer periphery of the lower part is wider than the outer periphery of the upper part;
In the form of a rod having a rounded upper end portion, the upper portion has an inflow space penetrating to both sides to allow the adapter to flow therein, and an inner surface of each of the upper ends facing each other by a cutout extending vertically from the inflow space. The housing body is spaced apart from the predetermined interval, the center of the inner surface of the upper end of each adapter receiving groove corresponding to the upper circumference of the adapter is symmetrically formed; And
And a seed chuck having an upper end detachably coupled to a lower side of the housing body, and having a silicon single crystal ingot grown from seed crystals at a lower portion thereof.
Silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus characterized in that the screw coupling hole is formed through the inner surface of the upper end of the housing body through the inlet portion, the gap between the incision is opened by a tilting action by inserting a screw into the screw coupling hole. .
The screw coupling holes are formed on both sides of the adapter receiving groove, respectively, to form a pair of silicon single crystal ingot forming apparatus.
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