Silicon single crystal wafer, epitaxial silicon wafer, and methods for producing them
US6478883B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 18, 2000 |
| Grant date | Nov 12, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 18, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01L21/3225
- WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
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.
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