Patent ID: 8864906
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: C30B

Abstract:
1. A silicon manufacturing method, designed to obtain a silicon wafer from an ingot of a silicon single crystal that is produced by immersing a seed crystal in silicon melt contained in a quartz crucible and then pulling and growing the silicon single crystal, wherein, when the silicon single crystal is pulled and grown under conditions that an entire cross-sectional area of the ingot of the silicon single crystal, in an area perpendicular to an ingot pulling and growing direction, becomes an I-rich region (a region dominated by interstitial-type point defects), the ingot of the silicon single crystal is pulled under conditions such that: among each portion of the ingot of the silicon single crystal in the ingot pulling and growing direction, an oxygen concentration in a region of the ingot of the silicon single crystal from its shoulder portion to a top part of its straight cylinder portion is equal to or higher than a predetermined concentration at which no slip starting from dislocation loop clusters occurs; and the thermal stress value in a crystal central part of the cross sectional area of the ingot of the silicon single crystal, the area being perpendicular to the ingot pulling and growing direction, in the course of forming the region of the ingot the silicon single crystal from the shoulder portion to the top part of the straight cylinder portion, among each portion of the ingot of the silicon single crystal in the ingot pulling and growing direction, is equal to or lower than a thermal stress value at which no slip starting from the dislocation loop clusters occurs in the region of the ingot of the silicon single crystal from the shoulder portion to the top part of the straight cylinder portion, the pulled and grown ingot of the single crystal is cut in the direction perpendicular to the ingot pulling and growing direction to obtain the silicon wafer, pulling the silicon single crystal while the oxygen concentration in the region from the shoulder portion to the top part of the straight cylinder portion is kept to 9×10 pulling the silicon single crystal while the thermal stress value in the crystal central part in the course of forming the silicon single crystal from the shoulder portion to the top part of the straight cylinder portion is kept to 7.1 MPA or lower by making the time period from immersing the seed crystal in the silicon melt to starting formation of the shoulder portion of the silicon single crystal to be within 40 hours.