Inventors:
Mark Philip D'Evelyn - Niskayuna NY, US
John Thomas Leman - Niskayuna NY, US
Assignee:
General Electric Company - Schenectady NY
International Classification:
C30B 28/06
C30B 29/48
C30B 29/50
H01L 21/00
US Classification:
117 71, 117 6, 117 21, 117 36, 117 74, 117 78, 117 89, 117100, 117109, 117216, 117957, 117958, 438 95, 438900
Abstract:
A method for a growing solid-state, spectrometer grade II-VI crystal using a high-pressure hydrothermal process including the following steps: positioning seed crystals in a growth zone of a reactor chamber; positioning crystal nutrient material in the nutrient zone of the chamber; filling the reactor with a solvent fluid; heating and pressuring the chamber until at least a portion of the nutrient material dissolves in the solvent and the solvent becomes supercritical in the nutrient zone; transporting supercritical from the nutrient zone to the growth zone, and growing the seed crystals as nutrients from the supercritical fluid deposit on the crystals.