WO2005010243A1 - シリコン単結晶基板の製造方法及び抵抗特性測定方法並びに抵抗特性保証方法 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a silicon single crystal substrate having a high resistivity to which nitrogen is added, a method for measuring resistance characteristics, and a method for assuring resistance characteristics.
- the silicon single crystal substrate is used at about 600-1300 ° C. for the purpose of impurity diffusion, oxidation step, gettering processing, and the like. Heat treatment during the process over a wide temperature range.
- the silicon single crystal substrate is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature of 900 to 1250 ° C. for about 10 to 60 minutes, thereby manufacturing the semiconductor element.
- a method for manufacturing a silicon single crystal substrate whose resistivity does not change even by heat treatment performed in the process is disclosed (Japanese Patent No. 2742247).
- RRG Ring Resistivity Gradient
- RRG is the percentage of the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the resistivity measurement group measured at an arbitrary position in the plane of a single silicon single crystal substrate, divided by the minimum value, and expressed as a percentage. . That is, assuming that the maximum value of the resistivity is p max and the minimum value is p min, RRG is represented by the following equation.
- the present invention provides a silicon single crystal substrate with a high resistivity of more than 1000 ⁇ 'cm to which nitrogen is added, even if heat treatment is performed during a semiconductor element manufacturing process, the resistivity does not significantly change.
- the resistance characteristic means resistivity, in-plane resistivity distribution, and the like.
- the present invention is a method for producing a silicon single crystal substrate having an average resistivity of 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more, wherein at least nitrogen is added by a floating zone method (FZ method). While growing the silicon single crystal ingot, the grown silicon single crystal ingot Producing a silicon single crystal substrate by cutting a silicon single crystal substrate, and subjecting the manufactured silicon single crystal substrate to a heat treatment at a temperature of 900 to 1250 ° C. for 10 to 120 minutes. Provide a method.
- FZ method floating zone method
- the average in-plane resistivity of a silicon single crystal substrate produced by cutting a silicon single crystal ingot grown while adding nitrogen by the FZ method suitable for producing a silicon single crystal substrate having a high resistivity is 1 000 ⁇ .
- Heat treatment at a temperature of 1250 ° C for 10-120 minutes to a silicon single crystal substrate with a size of '' cm or more eliminates the effect of the added nitrogen as a donor and allows the subsequent process of manufacturing semiconductor devices, etc. It is possible to produce a silicon single crystal substrate whose resistivity does not change significantly even during the heat treatment.
- the concentration of nitrogen added to the silicon single crystal ingot is 3 ⁇ 10 14 atoms / cm 3 or more.
- this nitrogen concentration to be added to the silicon single crystal ingot during growth is 3 X 10 M a tom S / cm 3 or more, because a large contribution to the resistivity as a donor of nitrogen, to erase the effect of its By performing the heat treatment, the effect of suppressing the change in resistivity is further enhanced.
- a single the nitrogen concentration to be added to the silicon single crystal exceeds 5 X 10 15 at O m S / cm 3 and no longer single-crystallized, and surely dislocation-free With 1 X 10 15 atoms / cm 3 or less Crystals can be grown.
- the heat treatment performed on the silicon single crystal substrate is performed in a wet oxygen atmosphere, a dry oxygen atmosphere, a nitrogen atmosphere, a shift force, or one atmosphere.
- the present invention measures the resistance characteristics of a silicon single crystal substrate having an average in-plane resistivity of 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more produced from a silicon single crystal ingot grown by the floating zone method (FZ method).
- a silicon single crystal ingot is grown while adding nitrogen, and the grown silicon single crystal ingot is cut to produce a silicon single crystal substrate.
- Heat treatment at a temperature of ° C for 10-120 minutes And then measuring the resistivity and / or the in-plane resistivity distribution of the manufactured silicon single crystal substrate.
- the average in-plane resistivity of a silicon single crystal substrate produced by cutting a silicon single crystal ingot grown while adding nitrogen by the FZ method suitable for producing a high resistivity silicon single crystal substrate is 1 000 ⁇ .
- the resistivity and / or in-plane resistivity distribution of the manufactured silicon single crystal substrate are measured. For example, the resistance characteristics (resistivity and / or in-plane resistivity distribution) after the effect of the added nitrogen as a donor is eliminated.
- the resistance characteristics do not significantly change from the measured resistance characteristics even in a heat treatment in a semiconductor device manufacturing process or the like thereafter. Therefore, accurate resistance characteristics can be assured in manufacturing a silicon single crystal substrate.
- the concentration of nitrogen added to the silicon single crystal ingot is preferably 3 ⁇ 10 14 atoms / cm 3 or more.
- this nitrogen concentration to be added to the silicon single crystal ingot during growth is 3 X 10 M a tom S / cm 3 or more, with a high effect of preventing defects such as contribution to the resistance characteristics of the donor nitrogen Therefore, by performing a heat treatment for eliminating the effect, the effect of suppressing the change in resistance characteristics becomes higher, and more accurate resistance characteristics can be assured by the method for measuring resistance characteristics according to the present invention.
- the heat treatment to be performed on the silicon single crystal substrate is performed in a wet oxygen atmosphere, a dry oxygen atmosphere, a nitrogen atmosphere, a shift force, or one atmosphere.
- the present invention provides a method for assuring the resistivity and / or the in-plane resistivity distribution of the manufactured silicon single crystal substrate using the measured value measured by any one of the above-described methods for measuring the resistance characteristics of a silicon single crystal substrate.
- a method for guaranteeing the resistance characteristics of a silicon single crystal substrate which is characterized by being used as a value.
- the resistance characteristic of the silicon single crystal substrate measured by the above-described resistance characteristic measuring method is a value that does not change even if the silicon single crystal substrate is subjected to a heat treatment in a semiconductor element manufacturing process or the like. Therefore, using this as a guaranteed value for a silicon single crystal substrate product is a method of guaranteeing highly reliable resistance characteristics.
- a silicon single crystal substrate having an average resistivity of 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more at least growing a silicon single crystal ingot while adding nitrogen by a floating zone method (FZ method), By cutting the grown silicon single crystal ingot to produce a silicon single crystal substrate and subjecting the produced silicon single crystal substrate to a heat treatment at a temperature of 900 to 1250 ° C for 10 to 120 minutes, dislocations and crystal defects are obtained.
- FZ method floating zone method
- the action of added nitrogen as a donor can be eliminated in advance, so that even if the silicon single crystal substrate is subjected to various heat treatments in the semiconductor device manufacturing process and the like, the average resistance is reduced. It can suppress large changes in the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate that occur when the resistivity is 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more.
- a silicon single crystal ingot to which nitrogen is added during growth and grown by the FZ method is sliced and manufactured, and the average in-plane resistivity is 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more.
- the resistivity and / or the in-plane resistivity distribution of the silicon single crystal substrate prepared above are measured. If measurement is performed, the resistance characteristics of the silicon single crystal substrate will be measured after the effect of the added nitrogen as a donor has been eliminated, and the resistance characteristics of the silicon single crystal substrate will be measured in the subsequent heat treatment in the semiconductor device manufacturing process.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a manufacturing process of a silicon single crystal substrate according to the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a view showing one example of a step of measuring a resistivity and / or an in-plane resistivity distribution of a silicon single crystal substrate according to the present invention.
- Garden 3] is a graph showing a change in in-plane resistivity distribution of a silicon single crystal substrate due to heat treatment in Example 1 of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a graph showing in-plane resistivity distribution of a silicon single crystal substrate after heat treatment in Example 3 of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a graph showing the change in RRG after heat treatment with respect to the in-plane average resistivity before heat treatment of a silicon single crystal substrate in Example 4 of the present invention.
- the change in resistivity caused by heat treatment during the semiconductor manufacturing process occurs in a silicon single crystal substrate to which nitrogen is added, and the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate before heat treatment is high. It becomes bigger.
- This change in resistivity is remarkable in a silicon single crystal substrate with an average resistivity of 1000 ⁇ 'cm, which has been growing in demand in recent years, particularly when the resistivity before heat treatment exceeds 3000 ⁇ 'cm.
- the divergence of the resistivity before and after the heat treatment became remarkably large.
- the resistivity may change by 30% or more, that is, 900 ⁇ 'cm or more after the heat treatment.
- the rate of change could reach 100%. That is, in the case of an N-type silicon single crystal substrate having a resistivity of 10,000 ⁇ 'cm before the heat treatment, the resistivity may reach 20000 ⁇ 'cm by the heat treatment.
- a resistivity of 10,000 ⁇ 'cm Even if a semiconductor device manufacturing process designed based on a silicon single crystal substrate is performed, the resistivity may reach 20000 ⁇ 'cm due to heat treatment during the process, and as a result, the characteristics of the manufactured semiconductor device will be as designed. The problem arises. Therefore, the resistivity measured before the semiconductor device manufacturing process has a low reliability value.
- the resistivity may be 10,000 ⁇ 'cm, which causes a problem that design accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
- the resistivity may be 10,000 ⁇ 'cm, which causes a problem that design accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
- it was found that even the generation of a small amount of donor has a significant effect on the resistivity. In particular, it was found that the problem became larger above 1000 ⁇ 'cm.
- the RRG before heat treatment was about 50%. After heat treatment, it was sometimes reduced to about 20%. In this case, the difference between RRG before and after heat treatment is 30%. In the case of 10000 ⁇ 'cm, the difference in RRG before and after the heat treatment sometimes reached as much as 60%.
- the higher the average resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate the higher the rate of change of the in-plane resistivity distribution, which greatly impairs the quality assurance of the accurate in-plane resistivity distribution.
- a semiconductor device manufacturing process designed based on a silicon single crystal substrate having an RRG having an in-plane resistivity distribution of 50% is used.
- RRG is reduced to about 20% due to heat treatment during the process, there is a problem that the characteristics of the manufactured semiconductor device may not be as designed.
- improperly overestimating the RRG can lead to improperly underestimated product yields for semiconductor devices with uniform resistivity. Therefore, the value of the in-plane resistivity distribution such as RRG measured before the semiconductor device manufacturing process has low reliability.
- RRG The reason why such a change in RRG occurs is considered to be as follows. Nitrogen is added to suppress dislocations and crystal defects, but also acts as an N-type donor. Here, nitrogen is non-uniformly contained in the substrate due to the non-uniform distribution of the boundary diffusion layer and the non-uniformity of the temperature distribution during single crystal growth, and as a result, the in-plane resistivity distribution becomes non-uniform. ing. At this time, RRG also becomes a large value. This phenomenon is affected by the fact that the higher the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate, the smaller the amount of donor that is originally added to the crystal for adjusting the resistivity, and the greater the ratio of the amount of nitrogen acting as a donor to the amount of donor.
- the present inventors performed a heat treatment at a temperature of 900 to 1250 ° C for 10 to 120 minutes on a silicon single crystal substrate to obtain an average resistivity of 1000 ⁇ 'cm to which nitrogen was added. Even with a silicon single crystal substrate having a high resistivity as described above, it has been found that the above-described remarkable change in resistivity does not occur even when heat treatment is performed in a subsequent semiconductor element manufacturing process or the like.
- the measurement of the resistance characteristics such as the resistivity and the in-plane resistivity distribution can be performed in a subsequent semiconductor device manufacturing process. Even if heat treatment is performed, it is possible to prevent the above-mentioned remarkable change in resistance characteristics from occurring (measurement of heat resistance characteristics after heat treatment), and it is possible to guarantee highly reliable resistance characteristics. Heading, the present invention has been completed.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a manufacturing process of a silicon single crystal substrate according to the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a resistivity and / or in-plane resistivity distribution measurement of the silicon single crystal substrate according to the present invention. It is a figure showing an example of a process. First, use Fig. 1 to manufacture a silicon single crystal substrate. The steps will be described.
- a silicon single crystal ingot is grown by setting the resistivity to a desired value of 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more by a conventional single crystal manufacturing apparatus by the FZ method (FIG. 1A).
- N-type or P-type impurities can be added during the growth in order to obtain a desired resistivity.
- H, AsH, etc. are diluted with a carrier gas such as argon gas and sprayed onto the molten zone.
- a carrier gas such as argon gas
- N-type impurities P, Sb and As can be added.
- B which is a P-type impurity, BH or the like may be used as a source gas.
- the inside of the furnace of the single crystal manufacturing apparatus is filled with an atmosphere gas composed of argon gas or a mixed gas of argon and hydrogen, and a nitrogen gas or a compound gas containing nitrogen is mixed therein.
- nitrogen is added to the silicon single crystal ingot.
- the compound gas containing nitrogen a gas such as ammonia, hydrazine, or nitrogen trifluoride can be used.
- the nitrogen added at this time prevents the generation of crystal defects such as swirl and D defects during silicon single crystal ingot growth, and suppresses dislocations generated by thermal stress when heat treatment is applied to the silicon single crystal substrate Has the effect of doing.
- the concentration of nitrogen to be added is 3 ⁇ 10 14 atoms / cm 3 or more, the concentration is sufficient to suppress the above crystal defects and dislocations, and the effect of the present invention to be described later is sufficient. it can.
- the nitrogen added at this time is non-uniformly contained in the plane due to non-uniform distribution of the boundary diffusion layer and non-uniformity of the temperature distribution. This causes the in-plane resistivity distribution to become non-uniform due to the action of nitrogen as a donor.
- the FZ method when growing a silicon single crystal ingot by the FZ method, the FZ method has a relatively small melt volume in the melt zone, and the additive tends to be unevenly incorporated into the single crystal due to natural convection. Become.
- the silicon single crystal ingot thus grown is cut into a cylindrical block shape, and after performing outer diameter grinding, an orientation flat process is performed as necessary (FIG. 1B). Then, the silicon single crystal ingot processed in this manner is sliced and cut to a predetermined thickness using an inner peripheral blade slicer, a wire saw, or the like to produce a silicon single crystal substrate (FIG. 1C). Substrate processing is performed on the silicon single crystal substrate thus fabricated (Fig. 1D). More specifically, chamfering to prevent chips on the periphery of the substrate, and lapping to increase the flatness and plane parallelism of the substrate surface. The crushed layer on the surface generated in the step is removed.
- a back surface gettering process is performed as a preparation process of the gettering heat treatment performed in the semiconductor device manufacturing process.
- This backside gettering process involves sandblasting the backside of the substrate with Si ⁇ with a grain size of
- the silicon single crystal substrate thus fabricated is subjected to a heat treatment described below (FIG. 1E), and then the surface is mirror-polished to produce a silicon single crystal substrate (FIG. IF).
- the heat treatment ( Figure IE) is preferably performed at a temperature of 900-1250 ° C for 10-120 minutes.
- a temperature is particularly preferable because the heat treatment time is not extended for a long time and the possibility of generating crystal defects due to thermal stress during heating and cooling can be reduced.
- the rate of temperature rise during heat treatment can be, for example, c-10 ° C per minute. In such a case, it can be freely selected as long as it is not destroyed or its crystallinity is not degraded.
- the resistivity increases by this heat treatment. That is, in the case of an N-type silicon single crystal substrate, the added nitrogen acts as a donor in the same manner as the added N-type impurity, and therefore, is compared with the resistivity originally provided by the N-type impurity to the silicon single crystal substrate. It is presumed that this is due to the low apparent resistivity. In this case, the heat treatment erases the effect of nitrogen as a donor, and the resistivity is restored to the original resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate.
- the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate is restored to the original resistivity given by the N-type impurity, the resistivity does not change even if the silicon single crystal substrate is subsequently subjected to a heat treatment in a semiconductor element manufacturing process or the like. Does not change.
- nitrogen as a donor is non-uniformly contained in the substrate surface due to the non-uniform distribution of the boundary diffusion layer and the non-uniformity of the temperature distribution during single crystal growth.
- the RRG also shows a large value. This phenomenon is particularly noticeable when single crystals are grown by the FZ method.
- the action of the nitrogen as a donor which was unevenly distributed in the substrate surface was erased, and the silicon single crystal base was removed. As a result of the manifestation of the original in-plane resistivity distribution of the plate, the RRG decreases.
- This phenomenon is due to the fact that the higher the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate, the smaller the amount of N-type impurities originally added to adjust the resistivity of the crystal, and the larger the ratio of the amount of nitrogen acting as a donor to that Therefore, the fluctuation of the in-plane resistivity distribution due to donor erasure having a large influence is increased. If the RRG of the silicon single crystal substrate is restored to the original RRG provided by the N-type impurity, the RRG does not change even if the silicon single crystal substrate is subsequently subjected to a heat treatment in a semiconductor device manufacturing process or the like.
- the resistivity is reduced by this heat treatment.
- the added nitrogen has the opposite effect on the resistivity as a donor because the P-type impurity as an acceptor is dominant.
- the apparent resistivity increases compared to the resistivity originally given by the P-type impurity to the silicon single crystal substrate. Therefore, the heat treatment erases the effect of nitrogen as a donor and recovers the original resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate, so that the resistivity appears to have decreased.
- the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate is restored to the original resistivity given by the P-type impurities, the resistivity does not change even if the silicon single crystal substrate is subsequently subjected to a heat treatment in a semiconductor element manufacturing process or the like. Les ,.
- the in-plane resistivity distribution is non-uniform as a result, and the RRG also shows a large value.
- the non-uniform distribution of nitrogen as a donor is eliminated, and the intrinsic in-plane resistivity distribution of the silicon single crystal substrate becomes apparent, resulting in a decrease in RRG.
- the concentration of the N-type or P-type impurities is relatively small, so that the occurrence of dislocations and crystal defects is reduced.
- the proportion of nitrogen added for suppression as a donor to apparent resistivity and in-plane resistivity distribution is large. Therefore, the effect of recovering the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate to the original resistivity and the in-plane resistivity distribution by eliminating the effect of the nitrogen as a donor by such a heat treatment is remarkably high.
- the nitrogen concentration was 3 ⁇ 10 14 atoms Zcm 3 or more, the contribution of nitrogen to the apparent in-plane resistivity distribution as a donor was sufficiently large. Therefore, the effect of the heat treatment is higher.
- the larger the diameter of the silicon single crystal substrate the greater the non-uniformity of the in-plane resistivity distribution due to the non-uniform distribution of nitrogen.Therefore, the RRG tends to increase. Will be higher.
- heat treatment When performing the heat treatment, it is preferable to perform the heat treatment under any one of a wet oxygen atmosphere, a dry oxygen atmosphere, and a nitrogen atmosphere. Under these atmospheres, heat treatment can be performed effectively. It is considered that nitrogen molecules form complexes with atomic vacancies and act as donors in the silicon single crystal substrate to which nitrogen has been added.However, when heat treatment is performed in an oxygen atmosphere, the surface of the silicon single crystal substrate ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ Because the film is formed
- the interstitial Si is further diffused inward, the atomic vacancies disappear, and the donor action is eliminated.
- the wet oxygen atmosphere has a higher SiO film formation speed.
- FIGS. 2A to 2E are the same as the steps in FIGS. 1A to 1E described above.
- the heat treatment (FIG. 2E) and the resistivity characteristics such as the resistivity or the in-plane resistivity distribution of the silicon single crystal substrate are measured (FIG. 2F).
- Resistance characteristics can be measured by, for example, a four-point probe method, a spread resistance method, a Hall effect method, or the like, and RRG or the like can be used as an index of resistivity uniformity.
- the resistance characteristics measured at this time are applied in a subsequent semiconductor element manufacturing process or the like. The resistance characteristics after various heat treatments are almost the same.
- the resistivity, RRG, and the like thus measured can be used as guaranteed values, for example, when designing element characteristics in a semiconductor device manufacturing process, etc. Even if the resistivity is as high as ⁇ 'cm or more, the device characteristics can be kept as designed without any change in device characteristics due to heat treatment during the manufacturing process. In the manufacturing process of the silicon single crystal substrate, if the manufacturing design is performed using the resistance characteristics measured after such heat treatment, the manufacturing process can be performed with higher design accuracy. Even when the resistivity and Z or RRG of a silicon single crystal substrate production lot are guaranteed by the resistivity and / or RRG of a silicon single crystal substrate appropriately selected from the lot, the substrate to be represented is not guaranteed.
- the grown silicon single crystal ingot was slice-cut to prepare a silicon single crystal substrate having a plane orientation of ⁇ 111 ⁇ .
- the in-plane average resistivity (Rave) was 1585 ⁇ 'cm.
- the above-prepared silicon single crystal substrate was subjected to a heat treatment at 1200 ° C for 100 minutes in a dry oxygen atmosphere.
- the in-plane resistivity distribution of the silicon single crystal substrate after the heat treatment was measured, the in-plane average resistivity (Rave) increased by about 8.9% from the average resistivity before the heat treatment, and became 1727 ⁇ '. cm.
- the silicon single crystal substrate was subjected to a test heat treatment at 600 1300 ° C, but the in-plane average resistivity was hardly changed from 1727 ⁇ 'cm. From this result, the guaranteed value of the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate was set to 1727 ⁇ 'cm.
- FIG. 3 is a graph showing a change in the in-plane resistivity distribution of the silicon single crystal substrate due to the heat treatment.
- the horizontal axis indicates the distance (mm) from the center of the silicon single crystal substrate, and the vertical axis indicates the resistivity ( ⁇ ′cm).
- Heat treatment at 1200 ° C for 100 minutes in a dry oxygen atmosphere as described above This shows that the resistivity greatly increases especially at the center of the silicon single crystal substrate.
- 1727 ⁇ 'cm which is the resistivity after the rise, was used as the guaranteed value of the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate. Since the increase in resistivity at this time is thought to be due to the elimination of nitrogen as a donor, the donor concentration due to nitrogen added during the growth of the silicon single crystal ingot is estimated to be about 5 ppta as described above. .
- N-type or P-type silicon single crystal ingots with a diameter of 125 mm were grown by the FZ method, and nitrogen was added by nitrogen gas during the growth. Among the added nitrogen at this time, the concentration of at least nitrogen acting as a donor is estimated to be about 5 ppta as described later.
- the grown silicon single crystal ingot was sliced to produce a silicon single crystal substrate having a plane orientation of ⁇ 111 ⁇ . In this way, only 40 or 10 N-type or P-type silicon single crystal substrates were produced at various resistivity values.
- the in-plane average resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate thus fabricated was measured, and the silicon single crystal substrate was subjected to a heat treatment at 1200 ° C for 100 minutes in a dry oxygen atmosphere. The average resistivity was measured.
- FIG. 4 is a graph showing the in-plane average resistivity after heat treatment with respect to the above-mentioned N-type or P-type silicon single crystal substrate before heat treatment.
- the points represented by solid circles or squares indicate the measured in-plane average resistivity of the N-type or P-type silicon single crystal substrate after the heat treatment measured above, respectively.
- the theoretical value of the in-plane average resistivity after heat treatment assuming a concentration of 5 ppta, is shown.
- the measured value of the in-plane average resistivity of the N-type or P-type silicon single crystal substrate after the heat treatment is increased or decreased, respectively, due to the aforementioned effect of eliminating the donor action of nitrogen.
- the measured values almost match the theoretical values, and the donor concentration by nitrogen added during the growth of the silicon single crystal ingot is estimated to be about 5 ppta as described above.
- the higher the resistivity before the heat treatment the greater the change in resistivity after the heat treatment.
- the heat treatment is required at a resistivity of 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more, especially When the resistivity exceeds 3000 ⁇ 'cm, the difference between the resistivity before and after the heat treatment becomes large, and the heat treatment is performed at a temperature of 900 to 1250 ° C for 10 to 120 minutes according to the present invention, thereby acting as a nitrogen donor.
- the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate becomes N-type or P-type impurity.
- the resistivity of the silicon single crystal substrate is measured after the heat treatment according to the present invention and the measured value is used as a guaranteed value, the guaranteed value can be made highly reliable.
- FIG. 5 is a graph showing the in-plane resistivity distribution measured in this manner.
- the horizontal axis indicates the position of the measurement point on the substrate, Ctr indicates the substrate center position, R / 2 indicates the position of 1/2 of the substrate radius from the substrate center, and Edge indicates the peripheral position of the substrate.
- the vertical axis indicates the resistivity.
- FIG. 6 is a graph showing the in-plane resistivity distribution measured in this manner.
- RRG was calculated from the measurement results, RRG was 13.6%.
- the silicon single crystal substrate was subjected to a test heat treatment at 600-1300 ° C, but the RRG was almost unchanged from 13.6%. From these results, the guaranteed value of RRG for this silicon single crystal substrate was set to 13.6%.
- N-type silicon single crystal ingot with a diameter of 125 mm was grown by the FZ method, and nitrogen was added during growth by nitrogen gas. Then, the grown silicon single crystal ingot was slice-cut to prepare a silicon single crystal substrate having a plane orientation of ⁇ 111 ⁇ . In this way, only 48 N-type silicon single crystal substrates were manufactured with various resistivities of 1000 11000 ⁇ 'cm. The in-plane average resistivity and RRG of each of the silicon single crystal substrates fabricated in this manner were measured, and these silicon single crystal substrates were subjected to a heat treatment at 1200 ° C for 100 minutes in a dry oxygen atmosphere. The in-plane average resistivity and RRG were measured.
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing in-plane resistivity distributions before and after heat treatment of four samples A, B, C, and D among the silicon single crystal substrates prepared above.
- the horizontal axis is the measurement point base. The position on the plate is shown, and the vertical axis shows the resistivity.
- the heat treatment eliminated the donor effect of nitrogen, and an increase in in-plane resistivity and a decrease in RRG were observed.
- Sample A which has an average resistivity before heat treatment of 5700 ⁇ 'cm
- the RRG before heat treatment is 38.8. /.
- the RRG after heat treatment was 19.6. /.
- the change in RRG due to heat treatment was 19.2%.
- the RRG may change by 19.2% due to the heat treatment during the subsequent semiconductor element manufacturing process.
- Sample A is subjected to a heat treatment at 1200 ° C for 100 minutes in a dry oxygen atmosphere, and then the measured RRG is set to the RRG guaranteed value of Sample A. Can be a guaranteed value.
- FIG. 8 shows the change in the RRG after the heat treatment with respect to the in-plane average resistivity before the heat treatment of the silicon single crystal substrate manufactured above, that is, the difference between the RRG before the heat treatment and the RRG after the heat treatment of the silicon single crystal substrate.
- FIG. Negative values on the vertical axis indicate that RRG decreased after heat treatment.
- the change in RRG after heat treatment was larger as the in-plane average resistivity before heat treatment was higher.
- Fig. 8 shows the force S plotted together with the data when the average in-plane resistivity is less than 1000 ⁇ cm for comparison. Although the change is not large, the change of RRG becomes large at 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more, indicating that heat treatment is required.
- the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment.
- the above embodiment is simple
- the present invention is not limited to those having substantially the same configuration as the technical idea described in the claims of the present invention, and exhibiting the same operation and effect as those described above.
- Technical scope is not limited to those having substantially the same configuration as the technical idea described in the claims of the present invention, and exhibiting the same operation and effect as those described above.
- a silicon single crystal substrate having a plane orientation of ⁇ 111 ⁇ was manufactured.
- the plane orientation may be ⁇ 100 ⁇ , ⁇ 110 ⁇ , or a plane having a plane orientation in which these plane orientation forces are inclined. It may be.
- the diameter of the substrate may be less than 100 mm, 125 mm, 150 mm or more.
- the greater the diameter of the substrate the greater the non-uniformity of the in-plane resistivity distribution, so that the present invention is effective.
- the resistivity before and after the heat treatment was 1000 ⁇ 'cm or more.
- the effect of the present invention is high if the silicon single crystal substrate has a high resistivity that greatly changes. If the nitrogen donor concentration is higher than this, the difference between the resistivity before and after the heat treatment is further increased, and the effect of the present invention is further enhanced.
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