Recent studies on minute strain fields in as-grown silicon single crystals using synchrotron radiation are described. These have been performed by means of plane wave X-ray topography using highly collimated X-rays with an angular divergence of less than 0.01 arcsec, With this method, minute strain fields in float-zone-grown Si crystals containing A- Nd D-defects, and rapidly cooled Czochralski-grown Si crystals have been imaged. It is shown that minute strain fields in the Si crystals can be quantitatively determined from the analysis of contrast in the topographs.