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Oxygen in silicon

Oxygen finds its way into silicon during the Czochralski single-crystal growth process; in moderate concentration (below 1017cm3) oxygen improves mechanical properties of a silicon wafer;excess oxygen acts as a n-type dopant in silicon.

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