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Article

Research on V/G Value Prediction Method for Silicon Single-Crystal Growth Based on Multi-Condition Invariant Feature Extraction

Department of Information and Control Engineering, School of Automation and Information Engineering, Jinhua Campus, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
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Crystals 2026, 16(7), 420; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst16070420
Submission received: 18 May 2026 / Revised: 23 June 2026 / Accepted: 26 June 2026 / Published: 29 June 2026
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microstructure and Characterization of Crystalline Materials)

Abstract

In the Czochralski process of silicon single-crystal growth, the V/G value at the solid–liquid interface is a key parameter affecting intrinsic crystal defects. However, online V/G detection remains difficult because the temperature gradient G cannot be directly measured, while multi-condition distribution shifts and limited labeled data reduce the robustness of data-driven models. To address these issues, this paper proposes DWC-ISBiGNN, an adaptive multi-condition invariant feature extraction method based on the Invariant-Specific Bidirectional Graph Neural Network. The proposed method introduces dynamic sample graph construction with stage-aware global nodes to capture non-stationary process correlations, source-domain credibility weighting to suppress negative transfer, and a semi-supervised training framework combining stage-conditional alignment with teacher–student regression consistency to exploit unlabeled target-domain data. Experiments on industrial data from a 12-inch silicon single-crystal production line show that DWC-ISBiGNN achieves an RMSE of 0.0041, an MAE of 0.00285, and an R2 of 0.9549. Compared with the original IS-BiGNN, the RMSE is reduced by 32.6%, and R2 is increased by 5.43 percentage points. The results demonstrate that the proposed method provides an effective soft-sensing approach for V/G prediction under multiple operating conditions.
Keywords: silicon single-crystal growth; V/G ratio; soft measurement; multi-condition modeling; causal invariant features; graph neural network; transfer learning silicon single-crystal growth; V/G ratio; soft measurement; multi-condition modeling; causal invariant features; graph neural network; transfer learning

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Wan, Y.; Han, C.-J.; Liu, D.; Lei, H.-N.; Ren, J.-C. Research on V/G Value Prediction Method for Silicon Single-Crystal Growth Based on Multi-Condition Invariant Feature Extraction. Crystals 2026, 16, 420. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst16070420

AMA Style

Wan Y, Han C-J, Liu D, Lei H-N, Ren J-C. Research on V/G Value Prediction Method for Silicon Single-Crystal Growth Based on Multi-Condition Invariant Feature Extraction. Crystals. 2026; 16(7):420. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst16070420

Chicago/Turabian Style

Wan, Yin, Chun-Jie Han, Ding Liu, Hao-Nan Lei, and Jun-Chao Ren. 2026. "Research on V/G Value Prediction Method for Silicon Single-Crystal Growth Based on Multi-Condition Invariant Feature Extraction" Crystals 16, no. 7: 420. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst16070420

APA Style

Wan, Y., Han, C.-J., Liu, D., Lei, H.-N., & Ren, J.-C. (2026). Research on V/G Value Prediction Method for Silicon Single-Crystal Growth Based on Multi-Condition Invariant Feature Extraction. Crystals, 16(7), 420. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst16070420

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