Growth of Wide, Flat Crystals of Silicon Web

Abstract
The temperature field and heat flow about the solidification interface of web crystals was modified by use of shaped radiation sinks. As a result, web was grown as wide as 3 cm and flat to less than 2.5 µm in 100 µm thick sheet. A qualitative extension of thermal models in dendrite growth applied to web morphology satisfactorily explains the experimentally observed results.