A list of silicon producers involves several very different stages of production. Production starts at silicon metal, which is the material used to gain high purity silicon. High purity silicon - coming in different grades of purity - will be used for growing silicon ingots, which will be sliced to wafers in a process called wafering. Compositionally pure polycrystalline silicon wafers are useful for photovoltaics), dislocation-free and extremely flat single-crystal silicon wafers are required in the manufacture of computer chips).
Silicon producers
High-purity silicon
- Renewable Energy Corporation (REC)
- SunEdison
- Wacker Chemie AG
- Silfex INC
- Tokuyama Corporation
Silicon wafer manufacturers
This is a partial list of major producers of wafers (made of high purity silicon, mono- or polycrystalline):
- Applied Materials
- LDK Solar
- Renewable Energy Corporation
- Renesola
- SunEdison
- Shin-Etsu Handotai
- SUMCO
- Wacker Chemie AG
- Sil'Tronix Silicon Technologies
See also
- List of photovoltaics companies
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