To make quartz glass crucibles suitable for drawing of single crystal silicon for electronic semiconductor applications, granular crystalline quartz or amorphous quartz glass is introduced into a rotating hollow mold which has gas-pervious wall regions at the side walls and bottom thereof, for examp
To make quartz glass crucibles suitable for drawing of single crystal silicon for electronic semiconductor applications, granular crystalline quartz or amorphous quartz glass is introduced into a rotating hollow mold which has gas-pervious wall regions at the side walls and bottom thereof, for example by having bores extending through a metal mold or being made of porous, sintered material. After introducing the raw material, a heat source, such as an electric arc, is introduced into the hollow mold, causing first sintering and then melting of an inner layer; upon introduction of the hollow mold, a vacuum is applied to the outside of the hollow mold, for example between the housing and the mold body, and, during continued rotation, to draw out any included gases and cause melting-together of vacuoles which, otherwise, might form due to included spaces and gases within the granular filling material. The vacuum is maintained during melting and rotation, heating being interrupted when a sufficienty thick inner wall of molten material has been formed, with an adjacent layer of sintered material leaving, however, granular material immediately adjacent the inner walls of the hollow mold to provide for heat insulation of the molten layer with respect to the hollow mold and protect the surface of the mold. The finished crucible can be ejected by introducing compressed air, rather than vacuum, to the outside of the hollow mold. Suitable vacuum is a pressure of less than 5,000 Pa, preferably less than 1,000 Pa.
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Apparatus to manufacture crucibles made of quartz glass from granular particles of quartz, said crucibles being capable of being used in the manufacture of single-crystal silicon blanks for electronic semiconductor applications, said apparatus comprising a gas-tight housing (1); a hollow mold (4) ha
Apparatus to manufacture crucibles made of quartz glass from granular particles of quartz, said crucibles being capable of being used in the manufacture of single-crystal silicon blanks for electronic semiconductor applications, said apparatus comprising a gas-tight housing (1); a hollow mold (4) having a bottom wall portion and a side wall portion and defining a hollow space therein, made of a material which does not react with heated quartz, inserted in said housing and gas-tight with respect thereto, leaving a space between the mold and the housing open to ambient air; means (2, 3) for rotatably supporting said housing (1) and said mold (4) therein to rotate said housing and said mold about a vertical axis; and heating means located with respect to said mold such that it is introducible into the hollow space of the hollow mold (4); wherein the hollow mold comprises: a metallic mold body formed with fine bores (5) through the walls thereof in both the bottom and side wall portions to form gas-pervious walls; and vacuum pump means (7) for furnishing a vacuum are provided, the vacuum being connectable to the space defined between the gas-tight housing and the hollow mold such that a vacuum can be applied through the gas-pervious walls of said hollow mold to draw the quartz particles against the walls and remove air as the particles first sinter and then fuse and melt under the influence of heat supplied by the heater means in the hollow space of the mold. Apparatus to manufacture crucibles made of quartz glass from granular particles of quartz, said crucibles being capable of being used in the manufacture of single-crystal silicon blanks for electronic semiconductor applications, said apparatus comprising a gas-tight housing (1); a hollow mold (4) having a bottom wall portion and a side wall portion and defining a hollow space therein, made of a material which does not react with heated quartz, inserted in said housing and gas-tight with respect thereto, leaving a space between the mold and the housing open to ambient air; means (2, 3) for rotatably supporting said housing (1) and said mold (4) therein to rotate said housing and said mold about a vertical axis; and heating means located with respect to said mold such that it is introducible into the hollow space of the hollow mold (4); wherein the hollow mold comprises: a sintered metallic porous body which is porous to the extent that it is gas-pervious throughout its side and bottom walls; and vacuum pump means (7) for furnishing a vacuum are provided, the vacuum being connectable to the space defined between the gas-tight housing and the hollow mold such that a vacuum can be applied through the gas-pervious walls of said hollow mold to draw the quartz particles against the walls and remove air as the particles first sinter and then fuse and melt under the influence of heat supplied by the heater means in the hollow space of the mold.
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