Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

Denso Corporation

Nuflare Technology, Inc.

Showa Denko K.k.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

The Kansai Electric Co., Inc.

Central Research Institution of Electrical Power Industry

Isaho Kamata

Hidekazu Tsuchida

Masahiko Ito

Masami Naito

Hiroaki Fujibayashi

Hideki Ito

Koji Nakayama

Yoshitaka Sugawara

Toshiyuki Miyanagi

Koichi Nishikawa

Kunihiko Suzuki

Ayumu Adachi

Tomonori Nakamura

Hideyuki Uehigashi

Katsunori Asano

Norihiro Hoshino

Takeshi Okamoto

Kazukuni Hara

Keisuke Fukada

Yuichiro Tokuda

Ryosuke Ishii

Hirofumi Aoki

Katsumi Suzuki

Takahiro Kozawa

Kazutoshi Kojima

Kenji Momose

Naohisa Ikeya

Michiya Odawara

Hajime Okumura

Keiichi Matsuzawa

Yuuki Ishida

Koichi Murata

Shinichiro Miyahara

Hiroyuki Kondo

Shoichi Onda

Naoto Ishibashi

Akira Miyasaka

Yasuhiro Ebihara

Takashi Kanemura

Akira Bando

Toshikazu Sugiura

Toshiro Tsumori

Masahiro Nagano

Takahiro Kanda

Ryohei Tanuma

A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a silicon carbide single crystal, and a silicon carbide single crystal ingot, obtaining a silicon carbide single crystal reduced in defects such as threading dislocations, are provided. The method manufactures a silicon carbide single crystal by supplying a raw material gas into a reaction vessel with a seed substrate, and heats the interior to grow a silicon carbide single crystal on the surface of the seed substrate. The method includes growing the silicon carbide single crystal on the seed substrate surface, while controlling the temperature, to perform pair annihilation of threading dislocations or synthesis of the threading dislocations; and a second step of maintaining the temperature inside the reaction vessel in the state of the first predetermined temperature after execution of the first step, to bring the leading ends of the threading dislocations close to the surface of the seed substrate.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing silicon carbide single crystal, and silicon carbide single crystal ingot

In a silicon carbide single crystal wafer, a dislocation density contained therein is 3500 dislocations/cmor less, and a difference of the dislocation density among a wafer central part, a wafer peripheral part and a wafer intermediate part is less than 50% of an average value thereof.

Silicon carbide single crystal wafer, and methods for manufacturing silicon carbide single crystal ingot and the silicon carbide single crystal wafer

A raw material gas is supplied to a space in which a silicon carbide seed crystal is placed. A silicon carbide single crystal is grown on the seed crystal by keeping a monosilane partial pressure at 4 kPa or more and heating the space to a temperature of 2400° C. to 2700° C. The temperature of the space and supply of the raw material gas are controlled such that a temperature gradient of a growth crystal surface of the silicon carbide single crystal in a radial direction is 0.1° C./mm or less, and a radius of curvature of the growth crystal surface is 4.5 m or more, thereby producing a silicon carbide single crystal ingot having a growth length of 3 mm or more and an internal stress of 10 MPa or less. The ingot is then cut into a silicon carbide single crystal wafer.

Methods for manufacturing silicon carbide single crystal ingot and silicon carbide single crystal wafer

A semiconductor wafer evaluation apparatus brings a contact maker (mercury liquefied at room temperature), as a Schottky electrode, into contact with a semiconductor wafer, intermittently applies a voltage from a pulse power supply, and evaluates the state (kinds, density) of point defects by an evaluation means based on the status of the electrostatic capacity of the semiconductor wafer. In this manner, the state (kinds, density) of the point defects in the plane of a large-diameter semiconductor wafer is directly evaluated using a large table.

Semiconductor wafer evaluation apparatus and semiconductor wafer manufacturing method

A silicon carbide single crystal contains a heavy metal element having a specific gravity higher than a specific gravity of iron. An addition density of the heavy metal element at least in an outer peripheral portion of the silicon carbide single crystal is set to 1×10cmor more.

Silicon carbide single crystal

A method for producing a SiC epitaxial wafer according to the present embodiment includes: an epitaxial growth step of growing the epitaxial layer on the SiC single crystal substrate by feeding an Si-based raw material gas, a C-based raw material gas, and a gas including a Cl element to a surface of a SiC single crystal substrate, in which the epitaxial growth step is performed under growth conditions that a film deposition pressure is 30 torr or less, a Cl/Si ratio is in a range of 8 to 12, a C/Si ratio is in a range of 0.8 to 1.2, and a growth rate is 50 &#x3bc;m/h or more from an initial growth stage.

SiC epitaxial wafer and method for producing same

A supply part includes a first partition, a second partition under the first partition, a third partition under the second partition, a first flow path between the first partition and the second partition allowing a first gas to be introduced therein, a second flow path between the second partition and the third partition allowing a second gas to be introduced therein, a first piping extending from the second partition to reach below the third partition and being communicated with the first flow path, a second piping extending from the third partition to reach below the third partition and being communicated with the second flow path, and a convex portion provided on an outer circumferential surface of the first piping or an inner circumferential surface of the second piping protruding from one of the outer circumferential surface and the inner circumferential surface toward the other one.

Film forming apparatus

A film forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a film forming chamber configured to form a film on a substrate; a susceptor configured to place the substrate thereon; a rotating part configured to rotate the susceptor; a heater configured to heat the substrate; and a gas supplier configured to supply process gases into the film forming chamber, wherein the susceptor includes: a ring-shaped outer circumferential susceptor supported by the rotating part; a holder provided at an inner circumferential portion of the outer circumferential susceptor, the holder configured to hold the substrate; a ring-shaped plate provided over the outer circumferential susceptor; and a cover member configured to cover a top surface and an outer circumferential surface of the plate and an outer circumferential surface of the outer circumferential susceptor.

Film forming apparatus, susceptor, and film forming method

A method for manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer according to one aspect of the present invention includes separately introducing, into a reaction space for SiC epitaxial growth, a basic N-based gas composed of molecules containing an N atom within the molecular structure but having neither a double bond nor a triple bond between nitrogen atoms, and a Cl-based gas composed of molecules containing a Cl atom within the molecular structure, and mixing the N-based gas and the Cl-based gas at a temperature equal to or higher than the boiling point or sublimation temperature of a solid product generated by mixing the N-based gas and the Cl-based gas.

Method for manufacturing SiC epitaxial wafer by simultaneously utilizing an N-based gas and a CI-based gas, and SiC epitaxial growth apparatus

A silicon carbide single crystal includes: threading dislocations each of which having a dislocation line extending through a C-plane, and a Burgers vector including at least a component in a C-axis direction. In addition, a density of the threading dislocations having angles, each of which is formed by an orientation of the Burgers vector and an orientation of the dislocation line, larger than 0&#xb0; and within 40&#xb0; is set to 300 dislocations/cmor less. Furthermore, a density of the threading dislocations having the angles larger than 40&#xb0; is set to 30 dislocations/cmor less.

Silicon carbide single crystal, silicon carbide single crystal wafer, silicon carbide single crystal epitaxial wafer, and electronic device

In a silicon carbide semiconductor film forming apparatus, first to third gasses are introduced into first to third separation chambers through first to third inlets, respectively. The first and second gasses are silicon raw material including gas and carbon raw material including gas, and the third gas does not include silicon and carbon. The first and second gasses are independently supplied to growth space through first and second supply paths extending from the first and second separation chambers, respectively. The third gas is introduced through a third supply path from the third separation chamber between the first and second gasses.

Silicon carbide semiconductor film-forming apparatus and film-forming method using the same

It is an object of the present invention to provide a film-forming apparatus and a film-forming method that can prolong the lifetime of heaters used under high temperature conditions in an epitaxial growth technique. An inert gas discharge portion supplies an inert gas into the space containing the heater, gas is then discharged through the gas discharge portion without influence on the semiconductor substrate during film formation. It is therefore possible to prevent the reaction gas entering into the space containing the high-temperature heaters. This makes it possible to prevent a reaction between hydrogen gas contained in the reaction gas and SiC constituting the heaters. Therefore, it is possible to prevent carbon used as a base material of the heaters from being exposed due to the decomposition of SiC and then reacting with hydrogen gas. This makes it possible to prolong the lifetime of the heaters.

Film-forming manufacturing apparatus and method

A film-forming apparatus and method comprising a film-forming chamber for supplying a reaction gas into, a cylindrical shaped liner provided between an inner wall of the film-forming chamber and a space for performing a film-forming process, a main-heater for heating a substrate placed inside the liner, from the bottom side, a sub-heater cluster provided between the liner and the inner wall, for heating the substrate from the top side, wherein the main-heater and the sub-heater cluster are resistive heaters, wherein the sub-heater cluster has a first sub-heater provided at the closest position to the substrate, and a second sub-heater provided above the first sub-heater, wherein the first sub-heater heats the substrate in combination with the main-heater, the second sub-heater heats the liner at a lower output than the first sub-heater, wherein each temperature of the main-heater, the first sub-heater, and the second sub-heater is individually controlled.

Film-forming apparatus and film-forming method

At the time of transporting a substrate into or from a space where a film formation process is performed, the space where the film formation process is performed, a space where a lower heateris provided, and a space where an upper heateris provided are made in an inert gas atmosphere.

Film formation apparatus and film formation method

A film formation apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a film formation chamber performing film formation on a substrate; a cylindrical liner provided inside of a sidewall of the film formation chamber; a process-gas supply unit provided at a top of the film formation chamber and having a first gas ejection hole supplying a process gas to inside of the liner; a first heater provided outside the liner in the film formation chamber and heating the substrate from above; a second heater heating the substrate from below; and a shielding gas supply unit having a plurality of second gas ejection holes supplying a shielding gas to a position closer to a sidewall of the film formation chamber than a position of the first gas ejection hole.

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