By Werner Zulehner, Diethart Huber (auth.), Dr. J. Grabmaier (eds.)

In the 1st contribution to this quantity we learn that the world-wide construction of unmarried­ crystal silicon quantities to a couple 2000 metric lots in keeping with yr. Given the scale of present-day silicon-crystals, this quantity is resembling a hundred thousand silicon-crystals grown each year through both the Czochralski (80%) or the floating-zone (20%) process. yet, to the easiest of my wisdom, no coherent and accomplished article has been written that offers with "the artwork and science", in addition to the sensible and technical facets of turning out to be silicon­ crystals via the Czochralski method. a similar may be acknowledged concerning the floating-zone approach have been it now not for the overview article via W. Dietze, W. Keller and A. Miihlbauer which used to be released within the previous quantity five ("Silicon") of this sequence (and for a monograph through of the above authors released in regards to the comparable time). As editor of this quantity i'm very completely satisfied to have succeeded in persuading scien­ tists, W. Zulehner and D. Huber, of Wacker-Chemitronic GmbH - the world's greatest manufacturer of silicon-crystals - to jot down a entire article in regards to the functional and medical elements of growing to be silicon-crystals via the Czochralski approach and approximately silicon­ wafer manufacture. i'm definite that many scientists or engineers who paintings with silicon­ crystals -be it within the laboratory or in a construction surroundings - will benefit from the 1st article during this volume.