The
Lely method or
Lely process is a
crystal growth technology the patent for which was filed in the Netherlands in 1954 and in the United States in 1955 by Jan Anthony Lely of
Philips Electronics. The method concerns the "production of
silicon carbide crystals by
sublimation and to
semi-conductive devices comprising such crystals."
[1]ref> The patent was subsequently granted on 30 September 1958, and was refined by D.R. Hamilton et al. in 1960, and by V.P. Novikov and V.I. Ionov in 1968.