Method of manufacturing flat tapes of crystalline silicon from a silicon melt by drawing a seed crystal of silicon from the melt flowing down the faces of a knife shaped heated element

摘要

A method of manufacturing bodies from meltable crystalline material in which a continuous tape of said material is manufactured by causing melted material to flow along at least one surface of a heated element, which surface is wetted by the melted material, and causing the tape to grow by drawing away a second near the lower side of the surface. Application in particular to the manufacture of semiconductor bodies, for example of silicon.