Jan Czochralski

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Jan Czochralski
Born(1885-10-23)23 October 1885
Exin, German Empire
Died22 April 1953(1953-04-22) (aged 67)
Poznań, Poland
NationalityPolish
CitizenshipPolish and German
Alma materCharlottenburg Polytechnic in Berlin
Known forCzochralski process
SpouseMarguerite Haase
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Metallurgy
InstitutionsWarsaw University of Technology
Opening a seminar in memory of Jan Czochralski organized by Polish Chemical Society and European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) in the Polish Senate (2013).

Jan Czochralski (/ˈjæn tʃɒxˈrɑːlski/ YAN chokh-RAHL-skee, Polish pronunciation: ['jan t͡ʂɔ'xralskʲi]; 23 October 1885 – 22 April 1953) was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski process, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers. He is the most cited Polish scholar.[1] He was also known for extraordinary physical strength.[2]

Czochralski was born in what was then Exin in the Prussian Province of Posen, German Empire (now Kcynia, Poland). Around 1900 he moved to Berlin, where he worked at a pharmacy. He was educated at Charlottenburg Polytechnic in Berlin, where he specialized in metal chemistry. Czochralski began working as an engineer for Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (AEG) in 1907.

He discovered the Czochralski method in 1916, when he accidentally[1] dipped his pen into a crucible of molten tin rather than his inkwell. He immediately pulled his pen out to discover that a thin thread of solidified metal was hanging from the nib. The nib was replaced by a capillary, and Czochralski verified that the crystallized metal was a single crystal. Czochralski's experiments produced single crystals a millimeter in diameter and up to 150 centimeters long. He published a paper on his discovery in 1918 in the Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, a German chemistry journal, under the title "Ein neues Verfahren zur Messung der Kristallisationsgeschwindigkeit der Metalle" [A new method for the measurement of the crystallization rate of metals], since the method was at that time used for measuring the crystallization rate of metals such as tin, zinc and lead.[3] In 1950, Americans Gordon K. Teal and J.B. Little from Bell Labs would use the method to grow single germanium crystals, leading to its use in semiconductor production.

In 1917, Czochralski organized the research laboratory "Metallbank und Metallurgische Gesellschaft", which he directed until 1928. In 1919 he was one of the founding members of the German Society for Metals Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Metallkunde), of which he was president until 1925. In 1928, at the request of the president of Poland, Ignacy Mościcki, he moved to Poland and became the Professor of Metallurgy and Metal Research at the Chemistry Department of the Warsaw University of Technology.

After the war, he was stripped of his professorship by the communist regime due to his involvement with Germany during the war, although he was later cleared of any wrongdoing by a Polish court. He returned to his native town of Kcynia, where he ran a small cosmetics and household chemicals firm until his death in 1953.

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  1. ^ a b Pajaczkowska, Anna (June 2001). "Professor Dr. Jan Czochralski - An Inventor". Newsletter of the German Association for Crystal Growth (73). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallwachstum und Kristallzüchtung: 30. ISSN 2193-3758. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 22 November 2012. {{cite journal}}: External link in |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Jan Czochralski - światowej sławy uczony z Pałuk". www.janczochralski.com. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  3. ^ J. Czochralski (1918) "Ein neues Verfahren zur Messung der Kristallisationsgeschwindigkeit der Metalle" [A new method for the measurement of the crystallization rate of metals], Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 92 : 219–221.

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