Carefully-shaped heat conductor helps control thermal gradients crucial to growth of single-crystal silicon sheets for solar cells. Ends of die through which silicon sheet is drawn as ribbon from molten silicon. Profiled heat extractor prevents ribbon ends from solidifying prematurely and breaking.
Preventing Freezeup in Silicon Ribbon Growth
NASA Tech Briefs ; 7 , 2
1983-05-01
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