His name may be almost impossible to pronounce for non-Polish speakers, but without Jan Czochralski, IT as we know it would not exist. Wednesday is the birthday of the chemist and metallurgist who, ...

If you were to travel back in time to the turn of the previous century and try to convince the average person that the grains of sand on just about any beach would be the basis of an industry worth ...

Silicon is still the most popular solar-cell material for commercial applications because it is so readily abundant (it is actually the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust-second only to ...

Research from the Chin-Yi University of Technology in Taiwan revealed a novel heater design in the Czochralski silicon crystal growth process that can control and decrease oxygen concentration without ...

Solar-grade quasi-monocrystalline silicon (mono-Si) wafers based on the manufacturing process of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) wafers can achieve over 95% of the quality of mono-Si wafers based on ...

LeTID minimal issue for gallium-doped Czochralski silicon PERC products Scientists from Trina Solar, Longi, Fraunhofer ISE, and other entities have looked at light and elevated temperature-induced ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Linton Crystal Technologies (LCT) introduces the KX320MCZR, a Czochralski (CZ) process crystal grower designed to meet growing market demands for a furnace capable of ...