A SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL WAFER, AN EPITAXIAL WAFER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL

摘要

In a method for producing a silicon single crystal by Czochralski method, the single crystal is grown with controlling a growth rate between a growth rate at a boundary where a defect region detected by Cu deposition remaining after disappearance of OSF ring disappears when gradually decreasing a growth rate of silicon single crystal during pulling and a growth rate at a boundary where a high oxygen precipitation Nv region having a density of BMDs of 1x10<7> numbers/cm<3> or more and/or a wafer lifetime of 30 mu sec or less after oxygen precipitation treatment disappears when gradually decreasing the growth rate further. Thereby, there is provided a silicon single crystal which does not belong to any of V region rich in vacancy, OSF region and I region rich in interstitial silicon, and has excellent electrical characteristics and gettering capability, so that yield of devices can be surely improved, and also an epitaxial wafer. <IMAGE>