Patent 7229693 was granted and assigned to MEMC Electronic Materials on June, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is directed to a silicon wafer which, during the heat treatment cycles of essentially any arbitrary electronic device manufacturing process, may form an ideal, non-uniform depth distribution of oxygen precipitates and may additionally contain an axially symmetric region which is substantially free of agglomerated intrinsic point defects.