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Silicon purification through acid leaching and unidirectional solidification

  • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
  • Abbr : J. Korean Cryst. Growth Cryst. Technol.
  • 2008, 18(6), pp.232-236
  • Publisher : The Korea Association Of Crystal Growth, Inc.
  • Research Area : Engineering > Materials Science and Engineering

음정현 1 장효식 1 Hyung Tae Kim 2 Kyoon Choi 2

1요업기술원
2한국세라믹기술원

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ABSTRACT

Recently the shortage of silicon resources especially for poly-silicon of purity higher than 99.9999 % leads to search for the more cheap and quick synthesizing routes for silicon feedstock. In order to solve this situation, we investigated the purification process of metallurgical grade (MG) silicon of purity around 99 % by the acid leaching and following the unidirectional solidification. MG-Si lumps are pulverized with a planetary mill, and then leached with HCl/ HNO₃/HF acid solution. As a result, the concentration of metal impurities including Al, Fe, Ca, Mn, etc. decreased dramatically. This process led to silicon content higher than 99.99 %. The purified silicon powders were compacted and have been melted and uni-directionally solidified with heat exchange method (HEM) furnace. The properties of multicrystalline silicon ingots were specific resistance of 0.3 Ω·cm and minority carrier life time (MCLT) of 3.8 μ·sec.

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