IP Library Granted Patent US 11,795,577
Granted Patent B2
US 11,795,577 · App. 17/879,474 · Granted Oct 24, 2023

SiC epitaxial wafer and method of manufacturing SiC epitaxial wafer

Inventors: Kensho Tanaka (Chichibu, JP); Yoshikazu Umeta (Chichibu, JP)
Assignee: Resonac Corporation
C30B29/36C23C16/325C23C16/4408C23C16/52C30B25/16C30B25/205H01L21/0262H01L21/02378H01L21/02532H01L21/02579H01L29/167H01L29/1608
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Patent No.
US 11,795,577
App. No.
17/879,474
Granted
Oct 24, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A SiC epitaxial wafer includes a SiC substrate and an epitaxial layer laminated on the SiC substrate, wherein the epitaxial layer contains an impurity element which determines the conductivity type of the epitaxial layer and boron which has a conductivity type different from the conductivity type of the impurity element, and the concentration of boron is less than 1.0×10 14 cm −3 at any position in the plane of the epitaxial layer.

Claims (15)

1. A SiC epitaxial wafer, comprising:

a SiC substrate; and,

an epitaxial layer of SiC laminated on the SiC substrate,

wherein the epitaxial layer contains an impurity element which determines the conductivity type of the epitaxial layer and boron which has a conductivity type different from the conductivity type of the impurity element, and

the concentration of boron is less than 1.0×10 14 cm −3 at any position in the plane of the epitaxial layer.

2. The SiC epitaxial wafer according to claim 1 , wherein the diameter is 150 mm or more.

3. The SiC epitaxial wafer according to claim 1 , wherein the diameter is 200 mm or more.

4. A method of manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer, comprising:

a film-forming step of forming an epitaxial layer of SiC on a SiC substrate using a vertical furnace having a gas supply port above a mounting surface of the SiC substrate, wherein the film-forming step comprises a temperature raising step of raising the temperature to a film-forming temperature while changing the temperature raising speed in the order of a first temperature raising speed, a second temperature raising speed, and a third temperature raising speed, wherein the first temperature raising speed is faster than the second temperature raising speed, the second temperature raising speed is faster than the third temperature raising speed, and the first temperature raising speed is 100° C./min or more.

5. A method of manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer according to claim 4 ,

wherein in the mounting surface of the SiC substrate, the height position of the center is 30 μm or more higher than the height position of the outer periphery at the film-forming temperature.

6. A method of manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer according to claim 4 ,

wherein in the film-forming step, a purge gas is supplied from the back surface of the SiC substrate, and the purge gas is supplied from a position 20 mm or more inside the outer periphery of the SiC substrate.

7. A method of manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer according to claim 4 ,

wherein the time required for the temperature raising step is 300 seconds or more and 750 seconds or less.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 14, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066599/0037 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 23, 2023
From: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064082/0513 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 9, 2022
From: TANAKA, KENSHO; UMETA, YOSHIKAZU
To: SHOWA DENKO K. K.
Reel/Frame 060755/0774 →