Silicon Metal

Silicon Metal is commonly known as metallurgical grade silicon or metallic silicon because of its shiny metallic colour. In industry it is mainly used as an alumnium alloy or a semiconductor material. Silicon metal is also used in the chemical industry to produce siloxanes and silicones. It is considered to be a strategic raw material in many regions of the world. The economic and application significance of silicon metal on a global scale continues to grow. Part of the market demand for this raw material is met by a producer and distributor of silicon metal – UrbanMines.

The polysilicon feedstock – large rods, usually broken into chunks of specific sizes and packaged in clean rooms before shipment – is directly cast into multicrystalline ingots or submitted to a recrystallization process to grow single crystal boules. The boules are then sliced into thin silicon wafers and used for the production of solar cells, integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices. Polycrystalline Silicon for solar energy applications includes p-type and n-type silicon. Most silicon-based PV solar cells are produced from polycrystalline silicon with single crystal systems the next most common. Silicon Metal is also available as single crystal, amorphous silicon, disc, granules, ingot, pellets, pieces, powder , rod, sputtering target, wire, and other forms and custom shapes. Ultra high purity and high purity forms also include submicron powder and nanoscale powder.