LARGE DIMENSION SILICON CARBIDE SINGLE CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS WITH REDUCED CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRESS

Silicon carbide (SiC) materials including SiC wafers and SiC boules and related methods are disclosed that provide large dimension SiC wafers with reduced crystallographic stress. Growth conditions for SiC materials include maintaining a generally convex growth surface of SiC crystals, adjusting dif...

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Hauptverfasser:	Khlebnikov, Yuri, Tsvetkov, Valeri F, Nattermann, Lukas, Kent, Caleb A, Griffiths, Steven, Balkas, Elif, Progl, Curt, Doverspike, Kathy, Kramarenko, Oleksandr, Fusco, Michael, Bubel, Simon, Leonard, Robert Tyler, Paisley, Michael J, Deyneka, Eugene, Conrad, Matthew David, Powell, Adrian R, Sakhalkar, Varad R, Shveyd, Alexander
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AFTER-TREATMENT OF SINGLE CRYSTALS OR A HOMOGENEOUSPOLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE APPARATUS THEREFOR BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS CHEMISTRY CRYSTAL GROWTH ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ELECTRICITY METALLURGY PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE SINGLE-CRYSTAL-GROWTH UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL ORUNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL
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Zusammenfassung:	Silicon carbide (SiC) materials including SiC wafers and SiC boules and related methods are disclosed that provide large dimension SiC wafers with reduced crystallographic stress. Growth conditions for SiC materials include maintaining a generally convex growth surface of SiC crystals, adjusting differences in front-side to back-side thermal profiles of growing SiC crystals, supplying sufficient source flux to allow commercially viable growth rates for SiC crystals, and reducing the inclusion of contaminants or non-SiC particles in SiC source materials and corresponding SiC crystals. By forming larger dimension SiC crystals that exhibit lower crystallographic stress, overall dislocation densities that are associated with missing or additional planes of atoms may be reduced, thereby improving crystal quality and usable SiC crystal growth heights.