US Patent Issued to GlobalWafers on Sept. 9 for "Use of arrays of quartz particles during single crystal silicon ingot production" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,538, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GlobalWafers Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Use of arrays of quartz particles during single crystal silicon ingot production" was invented by Richard Joseph Phillips (St. Peters, Mo.) and Carissima Marie Hudson (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing single crystal silicon ingots in which an array of quartz particles are added to the crucible assembly before ingot growth are disclosed. The array may be disposed in the outer melt zone of the crucible assembly as in a continuous Czochralski (CCz) process. The array may be made of quartz particles that are interconnec...