Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a silica glass crucible producible by an easy method and suppressing melt level vibration.SOLUTION: The silica glass crucible includes: a straight body extending in the vertical direction and having an approximately cylindrical shape; a curved bottom; and a corner part connecting smoothly the straight body and the bottom. The inner surface of the crucible has a fine uneven structure.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new method for manufacturing a quartz glass crucible for pulling a silicon single crystal, in which the bubble amount in a transparent layer is reduced without performing the polishing treatment of the whole inner surface. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing a quartz glass crucible includes: a process for forming a quartz glass crucible in which the inner surface side is a transparent layer and the outer surface side is a bubble layer, by subjecting a crucible-shaped molding formed from a quartz raw material powder to arc melting while imparting reduced pressure to the crucible-shaped molding from the inner surface in the outer surface direction and rotating the crucible-shaped molding; a bottom part direction movement process for moving bubbles present in the transparent layer of the inner surface of the wall part in the bottom part direction of the inner surface of the wall part by remelting the inner surface of the wall part of the quartz glass crucible by arc melting; and an outer peripheral direction movement process for moving the bubbles present in the transparent layer of the inner surface of the bottom part in the outer peripheral direction of the inner surface of the bottom part by remelting the inner surface of the bottom part of the quartz glass crucible by arc melting. Thereby, a quartz glass crucible in which the bubbles are accumulated in the corner part of the transparent layer formed by the inner surface of the wall part and the inner surface of the bottom part. Either of the bottom part direction movement process and the outer peripheral direction movement process can be carried out first. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT