The invention aims to provide a Czochralski zone melting method for producing silicon single crystals, which can meet the requirements of low oxygen content and doping of special solid elements.
The purpose of the invention is realized as follows: the production equipment comprises a straight pulling furnace and a zone melting furnace, and the manufacturing method comprises the following steps: (1) loading a silicon polycrystal material into a straight-pull furnace, vacuumizing and filling argon gas, (2) heating and melting a material to weld seed crystals, (3) thinning a neck, (4) shouldering and shouldering, (5) growing in an equal diameter, (6) ending, (7) cooling and discharging, (8) shaping and processing a discharged polycrystalline rod, cleaning and corroding, (9) loading into a zone melting furnace, vacuumizing and filling argon gas, (10) preheating and melting the material to weld the seed crystals, (11) seeding and thinning the neck, (12) shouldering and growing in an equal diameter, (13) breaking a tail part, (14) cooling and stopping the furnace, and discharging the crystals.
The invention adopts the Czochralski zone melting method to produce the silicon single crystal, thereby having the following characteristics:
1. overcomes the defect of high oxygen content in the silicon single crystal produced by the Czochralski method: oxygen atoms in the Czochralski silicon are generated by the high-temperature reaction of the fused silicon and the quartz crucible in the process of single crystal growth (
) Into a silicon crystal.Oxygen content of up to 10 is generally present
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3The limitations and difficulties of czochralski silicon single crystals in power device fabrication are caused by the thermal instability and reversibility of resistivity caused by oxygen donors formed by the high oxygen content in czochralski silicon. In the process of growing zone-melting single crystal, oxygen atoms entering the melt are supplied by two parts, namely oxygen atoms in the raw material silicon polycrystalline rod and a sio film (Si-O film) generated by the reaction of trace oxygen molecules in the inert gas at high temperature (800-1350 ℃) and the raw material silicon polycrystalline rod
) The sio that enters the silicon is almost completely volatilized by the high temperature silicon melt, and only a very small fraction of the oxygen atoms eventually enter the zone-melting crystal. From a number of experimental results, although the oxygen content in the feedstock silicon rods differs by nearly 3 orders of magnitude (from 10)
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3~10
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3) However, the oxygen content of the float-zone-melted single crystal after the primary crystallization by float-zone melting tends to be 10
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3The number is extremely large. Thus the high oxygen content (10) introduced during the Czochralski process
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3) After zone melting once crystallization, the temperature is reduced to 10
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3Completely reaches the national standard.
2. Overcomes the defect that the silicon single crystal doped with special solid elements can not be produced by the zone melting method. The silicon single crystal produced by the zone melting method can not be doped with other impurities due to the process limitation, generally, the intrinsic single crystal is pulled and then is sent into a neutron reactor, and the purpose of preparing the N-type silicon single crystal by doping phosphorus can be achieved through the irradiation of the thermal (slow) neutron flow. When the Czochralski zone melting method is adopted to produce the monocrystalline silicon, the characteristic that Czochralski equipment is easy to dope can be utilized, impurities required to be doped are doped in the process of drawing a Czochralski polycrystalline rod material, and then the silicon monocrystalline doped with N-type or P-type impurities or other impurities specially required and low in oxygen content is drawn by a zone melting furnace, so that the doping purpose is achieved.
3. Greatly improves the productivity of the zone melting furnace and reduces the production period and the production cost of the zone melting silicon single crystal. The price of the zone melting furnace with the same diameter is more than eight times higher than that of the straight-pull furnace, and the zone melting method firstly purifies the silicon polycrystalline rod by the zone melting furnace, then the silicon polycrystalline rod is made into silicon single crystal by the zone melting furnace, and then neutron irradiation is carried out. The Czochralski zone melting method firstly uses the Czochralski furnace to draw the silicon polycrystal rod and then uses the zone melting furnace to prepare the silicon single crystal, and saves the time and the cost of neutron irradiation, thereby not only reducing the production cost, but also improving the production utilization rate of the zone melting furnace and shortening the production period.
Specific examples are given below to further illustrate how the invention may be implemented.
The Czochralski and float zone method for producing silicon single crystal is carried out by using a Czochralski furnace and a float zone furnace in sequence. The method comprises the following steps:
(1) 22 kg of corroded and cleaned blocky silicon polycrystalline material is put into a quartz crucible in a Czochralski furnace, and after the quartz crucible is vacuumized for 30-60 minutes until the pressure is less than or equal to 100 millitorr, argon is filled until the vacuum pressure is less than or equal to 9 torr.
(2) Cooling water is introduced before heating, a crucible rotating mechanism is started, a heating button is started, the temperature is heated to 1500-1600 ℃ for about 2.5 hours, the blocky polycrystalline material is completely melted into a molten state, a seed crystal rotating mechanism is started, the seed crystal is descended, and the seed crystal is welded.
(3) The seed travel was set to zero, the crystal potentiometer was rotated and a narrow neck of about 8mm in diameter and about 20mm in length was pulled from the molten polycrystalline material by the seed for 30 minutes.
(4) The seed crystal raising speed is reduced, a crystal growth conversion button is started, the pulling speed is controlled by a diameter controller, and the pulling diameter is enlarged from about 8mm of the thin neck to 50 mm-80 mm, in this embodiment 65mm, after about 30 minutes, the shoulder is placed.
(5) And adjusting a diameter sensor, controlling the crystal pulling speed, and carrying out the constant diameter growth process for 20 hours.
(6) The pulling speed is reduced, and the process is finished after about 3.5 hours.
(7) And (3) raising the crystal to leave the liquid level, stopping heating, rotating the crucible, raising the crystal and rotating the crystal potentiometer to zero positions, cutting off the power supply, stopping argon gas after half an hour, stopping water after four hours, closing a linear valve switch, stopping vacuumizing by a main vacuum pump, and discharging the polycrystalline rod.
(8) Carrying out ingot shape processing on the polycrystalline rod discharged from the furnace, cleaning and corroding the polycrystalline rod, then loading the polycrystalline rod into a crystal holder in a zone melting furnace, loading the seed crystal into a seed crystal fixing clamp, placing a preheating plate on the seed crystal, closing a furnace door, vacuumizing the furnace chamber to the pressure of 0.1 millitorr within about 10 minutes, and then filling argon to the pressure of 0.2 millitorr.
(9) Before heating, cooling water is introduced, the temperature of the melting zone of the crystal bar is heated to 1420 ℃ by preheating for 20 minutes, and the melting zone and the seed crystal are welded by taking 5 minutes.
(10) The melt zone was adjusted to draw a thin neck of about 8mm in diameter and about 100mm in length over 10 minutes.
(11) The conveying speed of the crystal at the lower part is reduced, shouldering is carried out, the shouldering angle is controlled to be 60 degrees by using the upper speed, the diameter of the thin neck is enlarged from 8mm to 50 mm-80 mm in 30-40 minutes, the diameter is 63mm in the embodiment, and the equal-diameter growth process is carried out for 6 hours.
(12) The upper pulling rate was gradually decreased and the tail of the crystal was pulled apart in 50 minutes.
(13) Slowly cooling until the crystal is dark, stopping heating, cutting off the power supply after ten minutes, stopping argon gas, cutting off water after twenty minutes, and stopping vacuumizing.
(14) The lower furnace chamber is opened and the crystal is taken out.
The straight-drawing furnace used in this example was a CG-3000 model straight-drawing furnace produced in USA, and the zone furnace was an FZ-14 model zone furnace produced in Denmark.
When a silicon single crystal having a specific doping requirement is produced, a raw material can be charged into a Czochralski furnace while doping with a desired impurity.
Such as: when pulling a P-type silicon single crystal, boron needs to be doped, and the calculation relation of the resistivity and the doping concentration is as follows: wherein rho: as resistivity, N: is the doping concentration
When pulling an N-type silicon single crystal, phosphorus needs to be doped, and the calculation relation of the resistivity and the doping concentration is as follows: wherein: rho is resistivity, N is concentration X-log 10 rho A0=-3.1083A1=-3.2626 A2=-1.2196A3=-0.13923 B1=1.0265B2=0.38755 B3=0.041833
In addition, other elements can be doped according to different purposes, for example, a large amount of germanium-doped elements can be doped to prepare the germanium-doped silicon single crystal.