摘要:
A silicon wafer for epitaxial growth consisting of a highly boron-doped silicon single crystal wafer, an antimony-doped silicon single crystal wafer or a phosphorus-doped silicon single crystal wafer, which allows easy oxygen precipitation and exhibits high gettering ability in spite of its suppressed oxygen concentration, and an epitaxial silicon wafer in which an epitaxial layer grown by using the aforementioned wafer as a substrate wafer has an extremely low heavy metal impurity concentration are produced with high productivity and supplied. The present invention relates to a boron-doped silicon single crystal wafer having a resistivity of from 10 m&OHgr;·cm to 100 m&OHgr;·cm, an antimony-doped silicon single crystal wafer, or a phosphorus-doped silicon single crystal wafer, which are produced by slicing a silicon single crystal ingot grown by the Czochralski method with nitrogen doping. The present invention also relates to an epitaxial wafer, wherein an epitaxial layer is formed on a surface of the aforementioned wafers. The present invention further relates to method for producing them.
摘要:
The present invention is a method of producing an annealed wafer wherein a silicon single crystal wafer having a diameter of 200 mm or more produced by the Czochralski (CZ) method is subjected to a high temperature heat treatment in an atmosphere of an argon gas, a hydrogen gas, or a mixture gas thereof at a temperature of 1100–1350° C. for 10–600 minutes, and before the high temperature heat treatmen, a pre-annealing is performed at a temperature less than the temperature of the high temperature heat treatment, so that the growth of slip dislocations is suppressed by growing oxide precipitates. Thereby, there is provided a method of producing an annealed wafer wherein the generation and growth of slip dislocations generated in a high temperature heat treatment are suppressed and the defect density in the wafer surface layer is lowered even in the case of a silicon single crystal wafer having a large diameter of 200 mm or more, and the annealed wafer.
摘要:
There are disclosed a method for producing a silicon single crystal wafer for particle monitoring, which comprises growing a silicon single crystal ingot doped with nitrogen by the Czochralski method, and processing the single crystal ingot into wafers to produce the silicon single crystal wafer for particle monitoring; and a silicon single crystal wafer for particle monitoring, which is a silicon single crystal wafer for particle monitoring obtained by processing a silicon single crystal ingot into wafers, which ingot has been produced by the Czochralski method while doped with nitrogen. The method of the present invention can produce silicon single crystal wafers for particle monitoring having few pits on wafer surfaces with high productivity.
摘要:
There is disclosed a method for producing an epitaxial silicon single crystal wafer comprising the steps of growing a silicon single crystal ingot wherein nitrogen is doped by Czochralski method, slicing the silicon single crystal ingot to provide a silicon single crystal wafer, and forming an epitaxial layer in the surface layer portion of the silicon single crystal wafer. There can be manufactured easily and in high productivity an epitaxial silicon monocrystal wafer which has high gettering capability when a substrate having a low boron concentration is used, a low concentration of heavy metal impurity, and an excellent crystallinity.
摘要:
There is disclosed a silicon single crystal wafer produced by processing a silicon single crystal ingot grown by Czochralski method with doping nitrogen, wherein a size of grown-in defects in the silicon single crystal wafer is 70 nm or less, a silicon single crystal wafer produced by processing a silicon single crystal ingot grown by Czochralski method with doping nitrogen, the silicon single crystal ingot is grown with controlling a rate of cooling from 1150 to 1080° C. to be 2.3° C./min or more, and a method for producing a silicon single crystal wafer wherein a silicon single crystal ingot is grown with doping nitrogen and controlling a rate of cooling from 1150 to 1080° C. to be 2.3° C./min or more, and is then processed to provide a silicon single crystal wafer. The silicon single crystal wafer for device wherein growth of the crystal defects is suppressed can be produced by CZ method in high productivity.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method for producing a silicon wafer, which comprises growing a silicon single crystal ingot having a resistivity of 100 Ω·cm or more and an initial interstitial oxygen concentration of 10 to 25 ppma and doped with nitrogen by the Czochralski method, processing the silicon single crystal ingot into a wafer, and subjecting the wafer to a heat treatment so that a residual interstitial oxygen concentration in the wafer should become 8 ppma or less, and a method for producing a silicon wafer, which comprises growing a silicon single crystal ingot having a resistivity of 100 Ω·cm or more and an initial interstitial oxygen concentration of 8 ppma or less and doped with nitrogen by the Czochralski method, processing the silicon single crystal ingot into a wafer, and subjecting the wafer to a heat treatment to form an oxide precipitate layer in a bulk portion of the wafer, as well as silicon wafers produced by these production methods. Thus, there is provided a DZ-IG silicon wafer in which a DZ layer of high quality is formed, and which can maintain high resistivity even if the wafer is subjected to a heat treatment for device production.
摘要:
According to the present invention, there are provided a method for producing a silicon single crystal wafer which contains oxygen induced defects by subjecting a silicon single crystal wafer containing interstitial oxygen to a heat treatment wherein the heat treatment includes at least a step of performing a heat treatment using a resistance-heating type heat treatment furnace and a step of performing a heat treatment using a rapid heating and rapid cooling apparatus, and a silicon single crystal wafer produced by the method. There can be provided a method for producing a silicon single crystal wafer which has a DZ layer of higher quality compared with a conventional wafer in a wafer surface layer part and has oxygen induced defects at a sufficient density in a bulk part and the silicon single crystal wafer.
摘要:
In a method for producing a silicon single crystal wafer, a silicon single crystal ingot in which nitrogen is doped is grown by a Czochralski method, sliced to provide a silicon single crystal wafer, and then subjected to heat treatment to out-diffuse nitrogen on the surface of the wafer. According to a further method, a silicon single crystal ingot is grown in which nitrogen is doped by a Czochralski method, with controlling nitrogen concentration, oxygen concentration and cooling rate, and then the silicon single crystal ingot is sliced to provide a wafer. A silicon single crystal wafer is obtained by slicing a silicon single crystal ingot grown by a Czochralski method with doping nitrogen, wherein the depth of a denuded zone after gettering heat treatment or device fabricating heat treatment is 2 to 12 &mgr;m, and the bulk micro-defect density after gettering heat treatment or device fabricating heat treatment is 1×108 to 2×1010 number/cm3. A CZ silicon wafer is provided, wherein generation of crystal defects on the surface of the wafer, and oxygen precipitation, is accelerated in the bulk portion of the wafer. The controllable range of the depth of the denuded zone and the bulk micro-defect density can be enlarged.
摘要:
There is provided a method of producing a bonded SOI wafer wherein a silicon single crystal ingot is grown according to Czochralski method, the single crystal ingot is then sliced to produce a silicon single crystal wafer, the silicon single crystal wafer is subjected to heat treatment in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature of 1100° C. to 1300° C. for one minute or more and continuously to a heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature of 700° C. to 1300° C. for one minute or more without cooling the wafer to a temperature less than 700° C. to provide a silicon single crystal wafer wherein a silicon oxide film is formed on the surface, and the resultant wafer is used as the bond wafer, and a bonded SOI wafer produced by the method. There can be provided a SOI wafer that has a SOI layer having few crystal defects, good surface roughness and high quality in high productivity, in high yield and with low cost.
摘要:
There are disclosed a method for producing an SOI substrate comprising forming an oxide layer on a surface of at least one silicon wafer among two silicon wafers, closely contacting one wafer with the other wafer so that the oxide layer should be interposed between them, subjecting the wafers to a heat treatment to firmly bond the wafers, and making a device processing side wafer thinner to a desired thickness, wherein a silicon single crystal wafer obtained by growing a silicon single crystal ingot doped with nitrogen by the Czochralski method, and slicing the single crystal ingot into a silicon single crystal wafer is used as the device processing side wafer, and an SOI substrate produced by the method. The present invention provides a method for producing SOI substrates, in particular thin film SOI substrates having an SOI layer thickness of 1 &mgr;m or less, exhibiting a small crystal defect size in the SOI layer, and SOI substrates with low cost and high productivity.