Patent ID: 8728912

Claim:
A method for manufacturing an SOI wafer, the method by which a silicon oxide film is formed on a surface of a bond wafer made of a silicon single crystal, an ion implanted layer is formed inside the bond wafer by implanting at least one gas ion of a hydrogen ion and a rare gas ion through the silicon oxide film, and, after an ion implanted surface of the bond wafer and a surface of a base wafer made of a silicon single crystal are bonded through the silicon oxide film, the bond wafer is delaminated at the ion implanted layer to fabricate the SOI wafer having no oxide film in a terrace portion of a periphery of the base wafer and using the silicon oxide film as a buried oxide film, after heat treatment is performed on the SOI wafer in a reducing atmosphere containing hydrogen or an atmosphere containing hydrogen chloride gas, treatment that removes the buried oxide film exposed on a periphery of an SOI layer of the SOI wafer is performed and an epitaxial layer is then formed on a surface of the SOI layer.