Viktoria Solomatina

Ms. Viktoria Solomatina


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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14 December 2025 in Crystals
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EVElena Voronina
Elena Voronina
EMElena Mozhevitina
Elena Mozhevitina
KKKarina Kim
Karina Kim
VSViktoria Solomatina
Viktoria Solomatina
RARoman Avetisov
Roman Avetisov
IAIgor Avetissov
Igor Avetissov
The general procedure for measurement of impurities in hot zones of high-temperature growth setups is proposed and developed. In the first step, we prepared extra-pure 15 × 15 × 8 mm collecting cubes from composite graphite by high-temperature annealing in dry dynamic vacuum. The collecting cubes were placed in different parts of the hot zones of growth setups. We tested two types of crystal growth setups: single- and multi-crucible growth setups of a VGF configuration for AIIIBV semiconductors’ crystal growth. The hot zones of the setups were built from different types of graphite materials and high-temperature dielectric ceramics (BN and Al2O3) as insulators. The growth setups with collecting cubes without raw crystal materials were heated to operating temperatures, exposed for certain operating periods, and cooled to room temperature. The cubes were taken off and analyzed by extraction of condensed impurities into an analytic super-pure acid. The extracted impurities in the acid were determined by ICP-MS analysis. We showed that the hot zone of a single-crucible growth setup was nearly twice as pure (averaged 2.45 mg/g) compared with the hot zone of a multi-crucible setup (averaging 4.06 mg/g) because of the different graphite materials of the constructions.