Patent ID: 7569438

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: forming an oxide film on a surface layer section of an entire surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a window section by selectively removing the oxide film from an active surface side of the semiconductor substrate, the window section exposing a substrate semiconductor layer forming the semiconductor substrate; forming a first semiconductor layer having an etching selection ratio higher than an etching selection ratio of the substrate semiconductor layer so as to cover the substrate semiconductor layer exposed in the window section; forming a second semiconductor layer having an etching selection ratio higher than the etching selection ratio of the first semiconductor layer so as to cover the first semiconductor layer; forming a pair of support member holes for exposing the substrate semiconductor layer opened by removing the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer inside a pair of areas positioned on both sides of an element area section adjacently to the element area section formed using a part of the second semiconductor layer; forming a support member on the active surface side of the semiconductor substrate so as to cover the element area section and to fill at least a part of each of the support member holes; forming an end-exposed surface exposing at least a part of an end of the first semiconductor layer below the support member by etching the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer using the support member as a mask; forming a substrate semiconductor layer exposed surface by removing at least a part of the oxide film to expose the substrate semiconductor layer after forming the end-exposed surface; removing the first semiconductor layer below the support member by wet etching; filling a hollow section obtained by the wet etching with an oxide film using thermal oxidation; exposing the second semiconductor layer by removing the support member from at least above the element area section; and providing a semiconductor device to the second semiconductor layer.