摘要 |
An improved method of using an ID saw slicing machine for slicing a single crystal ingot in a direction normal to the axis of the ingot to obtain wafers, of which the improvement lies in that the cutting load which the blade of the ID saw slicing machine imposes upon the single crystal ingot is continually detected in terms of three vector elements along three mutually perpendicular directions throughout the slicing operation, and that, when the magnitude of that vector element of the cutting load which extends in the slicing direction exceeds a predetermined value, the feed rate of the ingot to the blade is decreased and, at the same time, the rotational speed of the blade is increased in accordance with a predetermined control pattern.
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