Epitaxial wafer and production method thereof

摘要

The epitaxial layer defects generated from voids of a silicon substrate wafer containing added hydrogen are suppressed by a method for producing an epitaxial wafer by: growing a silicon crystal by the Czochralski method comprising adding hydrogen and nitrogen to a silicon melt and growing from the silicon melt a silicon crystal having a nitrogen concentration of from 3×1013 cm−3 to 3×1014 cm−3, preparing a silicon substrate by machining the silicon crystal, and forming an epitaxial layer at the surface of the silicon substrate.