Seed crystal
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A seed crystal is a small piece of single crystal material from
which a large crystal of, usually, the same material is to be grown.
The large crystal can be grown by dipping the seed into a
supersaturated solution, into molten material that is then cooled,
or by growth on the seed face by passing vapour of the material to
be grown over it.
Examples where the a seed crystal is used to grow large boules or
ingots of a single crystal include the semiconductor industry where
methods such as the Czochralski process or Bridgeman technique are
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Single crystalA single crystal, also called monocrystal, is a crystalline solid in
which the crystal lattice of the entire sample is continuous and
unbroken to the edges of the sample, with no grain boundaries. The
opposite of a single crystal sample is a polycrystalline sample,
which is made up of a number of smaller crystals known as
crystallites. Because of a variety of entropic effects on the
microstructure of solids, including the distorting effects of
impurities and the mobility of crystallographic defects and
dislocations, single crystals of meaningful size are exceedingly
rare in nature, and can also be difficult to produce in the
laboratory under controlled conditions.
Because grain boundaries can have significant effects on the
physical and electrical properties of a material, single crystals
are of interest to industry, and have important industrial
applications. The most notable of these is the use of single crystal
silicon in the fabrication of semiconductors. On the quantum scale
that microprocessors operate on, the presence of grain boundaries
would have a significant impact on the functionality of field effect
transistors by altering local electrical properties. Therefore,
microprocessor fabricators have invested heavily in facilities to
produce large single crystals of silicon.
Fabrication of single crystals usually involves the building of a
crystal layer by layer of atoms. Techniques to produce large single
crystals (boules) include slowly drawing a rotating "seed crystal"
in a molten bath of feeder material (as in the Czochralski process
and the Bridgeman technique). Some thin film deposition techniques
can be used for epitaxy, forming a new layer of material with the
same structure on the surface of an existing single crystal.
Monocrystals are often made by Czochralski process, controlled
crystallization from the melted material.UsesMonocrystals of silicon and other semiconductors are important for
manufacture of integrated circuits.
Monocrystals of sapphire and other materials are used for lasers and
nonlinear optics.
Monocrystals of fluorite are sometimes used in the objective lenses
of apochromatic refracting telescopes.
Monocrystals of metals, especially superalloys, are used for their
special mechanical properties. Turbine blades of some gas turbines
are made of single crystal cast superalloy.
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