China has discovered two high-purity quartz deposits, one near Qinling, Henan province, and the other in Altay, Xinjiang. The ...

Researchers from Norway and Germany investigated the influence of impurities in fused quartz crucibles used in silicon PV ingot production. The results suggest that the key factors influencing ...

Quartz, though, is at least a partial exception ... silicon for the Czochralski method of growing monocrystalline silicon ingots. The piezoelectric effect, a property of certain crystals to ...