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The Czochralski process is a crystal growth method used to produce single crystals of semiconductors, metals, salts, and gemstones. It was invented in 1916 by Polish scientist Jan Czochralski, who discovered the process by accident while studying the crystallization of metals and pulling a single crystal tin filament from molten tin. The process is named after Czochralski and is used to obtain crystals like silicon, germanium, and metals such as palladium and platinum.

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The Czochralski process is a crystal growth method used to produce single crystals of semiconductors, metals, salts, and gemstones. It was invented in 1916 by Polish scientist Jan Czochralski, who discovered the process by accident while studying the crystallization of metals and pulling a single crystal tin filament from molten tin. The process is named after Czochralski and is used to obtain crystals like silicon, germanium, and metals such as palladium and platinum.

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The Czochralski process is a method of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals of

semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide), metals (e.g. palladium, platinum,
silver, gold), salts and synthetic gemstones. The process is named after Polish scientist Jan
Czochralski,[1] who invented the method in 1916 while investigating the crystallization rates of
metals.[2] He made this discovery by accident, while studying the crystallization rate of metals
when, instead of dipping his pen into the ink, he did so in molten tin and drew a tin filament, that
later proved to be a single crystal.[3]

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