Sumco Corporation

Tamio Motoyama

Naoshi Adachi

Satoshi Murakami

Nobuyuki Morimoto

An epitaxial wafer comprises a silicon substrate, a gettering epitaxial film formed thereon and containing silicon and carbon, and a main silicon epitaxial film formed on the gettering epitaxial film, in which the gettering epitaxial film has a given carbon atom concentration and carbon atoms are existent between its silicon lattices.

Epitaxial wafer and method of producing the same

A bonded wafer formed by directly bonding a wafer for active layer and a wafer for support substrate without an insulating film and thinning the wafer for active layer is evaluated by a method comprising steps of removing native oxide from a surface of an active layer in the bonded wafer, subjecting the bonded wafer to an etching with an etching liquid having an etching rate to a material constituting the wafer faster than that to an oxide of the material to remove at least a whole of the active layer, and detecting island-shaped oxides exposed by the etching, in which the etching is carried out so as to satisfy a relation of T&#x2266;X&#x2266;T+500 nm wherein T is a thickness of the active layer (nm) and X is an etching depth (nm) to detect the number and size of the island-shaped oxides.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tamio Motoyama