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US 10,975,496 · App. 16/315,216 · Granted Apr 13, 2021

Single crystal silicon plate-shaped body

Inventors: Isao Masada (Yamaguchi, JP); Shoji Tachibana (Yamaguchi, JP)
Assignee: Tokuyama Corporation
C30B29/06C01B33/02C30B15/00C30B15/206C01P2006/80H01L31/1804
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Patent No.
US 10,975,496
App. No.
16/315,216
Granted
Apr 13, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A single crystal silicon plate-shaped body as cut out from an upper portion of a straight body portion of a CZ method single crystal silicon ingot has an interstitial oxygen concentration in a crystal is 25 ppma to 45 ppma and a substitutional carbon concentration is 0.5 ppma or less in a radial center. In the radial center, oxygen precipitates are not observed in a bulk in an image of 200,000 times by a transmission electron microscope, and after heating the single crystal silicon plate-shaped body at 950° C. for 60 minutes, oxygen precipitates are observed in an image of the 200,000 times, and a shape of the oxygen precipitates is observed in a polyhedral structure in an image of 2,000,000 times.

Claims (23)

1. A single crystal silicon plate-shaped body, wherein

an interstitial oxygen concentration in a crystal is 25 ppma to 45 ppma and a substitutional carbon concentration is 0.5 ppma or less in a radial center, and

in the radial center, oxygen precipitates are not observed in a bulk in an image of 200,000 times by a transmission electron microscope, and

after heating the single crystal silicon plate-shaped body at 950° C. for 60 minutes, oxygen precipitates are observed with number density of 1.0×10 11 to 2×10 12 pieces/cm 3 , and

when the oxygen precipitates are observed in an image of 2,000,000 times, oxygen precipitates of which a shape is observed in a polyhedral structure are 75% or more.

2. The single crystal silicon plate-shaped body according to claim 1 , wherein the substitutional carbon concentration is 0.001 ppma to 0.3 ppma.

3. The single crystal silicon plate-shaped body according to claim 1 , wherein the single crystal silicon plate-shaped body is quarried from a CZ method single crystal silicon ingot and is not subjected to thermal history at 900° C. or higher after quarrying.

4. The single crystal silicon plate-shaped body according to claim 3 , wherein the single crystal silicon plate-shaped body is quarried from an upper portion of a straight body portion of the CZ method single crystal silicon ingot.

5. The single crystal silicon plate-shaped body according to claim 1 , wherein the polyhedral structure is an octahedron.

6. The single crystal silicon plate-shaped body according to claim 1 , wherein the number density of oxygen precipitates is calculated by:

confirming substantially all distortions in an image at 200,000 times are oxygen precipitates; and

measuring a number density of distortions at 10,000-50,000 times which are observed as black dots, wherein the number density of distortions is the number density of oxygen precipitates.

7. The single crystal silicon plate-shaped body according to claim 1 , wherein the number density of oxygen precipitates is calculated by:

confirming distortions in an image at 200,000 times are oxygen precipitates and defects;

measuring a number density of distortions at 10,000-50,000 times which are observed as black dots; and

multiplying a proportion of oxygen precipitates among the confirmed distortions by the measured number density of black dots.

8. A CZ method single crystal silicon ingot comprising:

a region which satisfies properties of the single crystal silicon plate-shaped body according to claim 1 in a long axis direction of the ingot.

9. A single crystal silicon ingot, comprising:

a region which satisfies properties of the single crystal silicon plate-shaped body according to claim 1 in an upper portion of a straight body portion.

10. A single crystal silicon body, comprising:

a single crystal silicon body having an interstitial oxygen concentration of 30 ppma to 45 ppma and a substitutional carbon concentration of 0.001 ppma to 0.5 ppma in a radial center, and

oxygen precipitates having a number density of 1.0×10 11 to 2×10 12 pieces/cm 3 in the radial center, wherein 75% or more of the oxygen precipitates have a polyhedral structure when observed in an image of 2,000,000 times by a transmission electron microscope.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 4, 2019
From: MASADA, ISAO; TACHIBANA, SHOJI
To: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2016-134375 · Jul 6, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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