Patent ID: 8202787
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing an SOI wafer having a buried oxide film with a predetermined thickness by means of: forming an oxide film on a surface of at least one of a bond wafer and a base wafer; bonding the bond wafer to the base wafer through the formed oxide film; and performing a heat treatment for reducing a thickness of the buried oxide film on an SOI wafer material having an SOI layer formed on the buried oxide film, the SOI wafer material being obtained by thinning a thickness of the bond wafer after the bonding, wherein a thickness of the SOI layer of the SOI wafer material to be subjected to the heat treatment for reducing the thickness of the buried oxide film is calculated on the basis of a ratio of the thickness of the buried oxide film to be reduced by the heat treatment with respect to a permissible value of an amount of change in an in-plane range of the buried oxide film, the change being caused by the heat treatment, and the SOI wafer material obtained by thinning the thickness of the bond wafer so as to have the calculated thickness of the SOI layer is subjected to the heat treatment for reducing the thickness of the buried oxide film.