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US 6,878,451 · App. 10/384,534 · Granted Apr 12, 2005

Silicon single crystal, silicon wafer, and epitaxial wafer

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Patent No.
US 6,878,451
App. No.
10/384,534
Granted
Apr 12, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

There are provided silicon single crystal, silicon wafer, and epitaxial wafer having a sufficient gettering effect suitable for a large-scale integrated device. The silicon single crystal which is suitable for an epitaxial wafer is grown with nitrogen doping at a concentration of 1×10 13 atoms/cm 3 or more, or with nitrogen doping at a concentration of 1×10 12 atoms/cm 3 and carbon doping at a concentration of 0.1×10 16 -5×10 16 atoms/cm 3 and/or boron doping at a concentration of 1×10 17 atoms/cm 3 or more. The silicon wafer is produced by slicing from the silicon single crystal, and an epitaxial layer is grown on a surface of the silicon wafer to produce the epitaxial wafer. The present invention provides an epitaxial wafer for a large-scale integrated device having no defects in a device-active region and having an excellent gettering effect without performance of an extrinsic or intrinsic gettering treatment, which is a factor for increasing the number of production steps and production costs.

Claims (3)

1. An epitaxial wafer, which is produced without extrinsic gettering treatment, and in which an epitaxial layer is grown on a surface of a silicon wafer which his produced by slicing a silicon single crystal grown with nitrogen doping at concentration of 1×10 13 atoms/cm 3 or more.

2. An epitaxial wafer, which is produced without extrinsic gettering treatment, and in which an epitaxial layer is grown on a surface of a silicon wafer which his produced by slicing a silicon single crystal grown with nitrogen doping at concentration of 1×10 13 atoms/cm 3 or more and generates oxidation-induced stacking faults at a density of 1×10 2 /cm 2 or more through a thermal oxidation treatment.

3. An epitaxial wafer, which is produced without extrinsic gettering treatment, and in which an epitaxial layer is grown on a surface of a silicon wafer which his produced by slicing a silicon single crystal grown with nitrogen doping at concentration of 1×10 13 atoms/cm 3 or more and generates defects at a density of 5×10 3 /cm2 or more in the cross section after a thermal treatment of 1100° C. or more.