Apparatus for producing single crystal

摘要

An apparatus for producing a single crystal according to the CZ method, which comprises a closed container consisting of upper and lower halves and having a shaft for pulling up the single crystal, at least a part of which contacting with said vapor of the elements is made of a material containing an element of the same group of the periodic table as that of component elements of the single crystal, a gap between said shaft and the container and an opening between said upper and lower halves of the container being sealed with a sealing material, at least one reservoir positioned in the container for supplying vapor of a volatile component element of the single crystal, and a heating means provided around the container; wherein a hot zone of the apparatus including the container is made of a material which has an X-ray absorption coefficient not larger than 5 cm2/g, and said material of the hot zone has such thickness that X-ray transmittance through the whole hot zone is 10-6 or more so as to monitor the single crystal being pulled up by X-ray fluoroscopy.