Patent ID: 7785414

Claim:
A process for manufacturing a wafer of a silicon carbide single crystal comprising: cutting a wafer from an α (hexagonal)-silicon carbide single crystal so that the off-angle is totally in the range from 0.4 to 2° to a plane obtained in perpendicular to the [0001]c axis of the silicon carbide single crystal; disposing the wafer in a reaction vessel; feeding a silicon source gas and carbon source gas in the reaction vessel; and epitaxially growing the α (hexagonal) silicon carbide single crystal on the wafer by allowing the silicon source gas and carbon source gas to react at a temperature range from 1550 to 1700° C., wherein the feed ratio (C/Si) of the carbon source gas (C) to the silicon source gas (Si) is in the range from 0.5 to 1.4, wherein the off-angle is increased from 0° in an approximately concentric manner from the center to the periphery of the wafer in order to restrict the area of the wafer with an off-angle of less than 0.4° to the region in the vicinity of the center of the wafer.