We have studied the effect of thermal history on iron precipitation behavior in intentionally contaminated Czochralski silicon wafers that contain well-defined precipitation sites for iron, oxide precipitates. Iron precipitation was studied at a temperature range between 600 C and 700 C for various times. The results indicate that iron precipitation is strongly affected by the thermal history o...

The temperature dependent band edge energy of the novel tungsten bronze type calcium barium niobate (CBN) is measured over a temperature range from 80 K to 573 K. CBN has been under investigation for serveral years and is believed to be a promising material for future applications. Czochralski-grown, colorless single crystals from the congruently melting composition with a calcium content of 0....

The luminosity upgrade of the large hadron collider (SLHC) at CERN will require the innermost layers of the vertex detectors to achieve excellent performances up to fluences of about 10 hadrons cm . New solid state detectors are currently being developed by the CERN RD50 collaboration. In this paper recent results on magnetic Czochralski, epitaxial, and oxygen-enriched silicon will be presented...

Single crystal silicon has played the fundamental role in electronic industry since the second half of the 20th century and still remains the most widely used material. Electronic devices and integrated circuits are fabricated on single-crystal silicon wafers which are produced from silicon crystals grown primarily by the Czochralski (CZ) technique. Various defects are formed in the growing cry...

High quality GGG:Cr,Ca crystal for passive Q-switching Nd:garnet lasers has been grown by the Czochralski method. Thermal treatment of GGG crystals co-doped with Cr4+ and Ca2+ at different temperatures is investigated. The absorption spectra were resolved into different peaks, of modified Gaussian line-shape. Transition from octahedral sites to tetrahedral ones is thermally activated. An...