US Patent Issued to SILTRONIC on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and method for producing a doped monocrystalline rod made of silicon" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,145, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SILTRONIC AG (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for producing a doped monocrystalline rod made of silicon" was invented by Dieter Knerer (Haiming, Germany), Patrick Eschenbacher-Bladt (Burghausen, Germany) and Ulf Gattermann (Burghausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus produces a doped Czochralski crystal. The apparatus includes: a pressure vessel; a crucible in the pressure vessel for containing liquid silicon; and a second apparatus for doping the melt. The second apparatus includes: a housing; a reservoir vessel holding a dopant; a conveyor belt conveying the dopant; a third...