Patent ID: 7427382
Filing Date: 2008-09-23
Classification: C01B,H01L

Abstract:
1. A method of making a compound, comprising: providing a first liquid material located in a first vessel and a second liquid material located in a second vessel; flowing an inert gas through the first vessel; adding the second liquid material from the second vessel into the first liquid material located in the first vessel at a controlled rate such that resulting vapor pressure surges from an exothermic reaction of mixing the first material and the second material are absorbed in the flowing inert gas, while the first liquid material is maintained at a temperature above a liquidus temperature of the first material and below a liquidus temperature of the compound of the first material and the second material; maintaining a temperature of the first material and the second material above the liquidus temperature of the first material and below the liquidus temperature of the compound until the second liquid material is mixed with the first liquid material, while maintaining a portion of the first vessel which is located adjacent to an inert gas flow inlet at a temperature at which a vapor pressure of the second material is 1 torr or less; and homogenizing and consolidating the mixture of the first liquid material and the second liquid material to form a solid compound of the first material and the second material.