New method for production of solar-grade silicon by subhalide reduction

Materials Transactions

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2873-2878

  Yasuda, Kouji ^a,c   Saegusa, Kunio ^b   Okabe, Toru H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c Osaka Titanium Technologies Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

High purity silicon; Metallothermic reduction; Polycrystalline silicon; Reduction process; Smelting; Solar grade silicon; Subhalide

Indexed keywords

AL-METAL; DETECTION LIMITS; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; HIGH-PURITY; HIGH-PURITY SILICON; IMPURITY LEVEL; METALLOTHERMIC REDUCTION; OVERALL REACTIONS; POLY-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; REACTION TUBES; REDUCTANTS; REDUCTION PROCESS; SUB MICRON; SUBHALIDES; VAPOR PHASE; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

POLYSILICON; REACTION RATES; SMELTING; VAPORS;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 74549146209     PISSN: 13459678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.M2009260     Document Type: Article

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