N-type silicon single crystal production method, n-type silicon single crystal ingot, silicon wafer, and epitaxial silicon wafer

An n-type silicon single crystal production method of pulling up an n-type silicon single crystal from a silicon melt in a crucible, the silicon melt containing red phosphorus as a principal dopant and growing the n-type silicon single crystal by the Czochralski process, the method further comprising:

• setting an inner diameter of the crucible at 1.7 times or more and 2.3 times or less relative to a straight body diameter of the silicon single crystal during pulling up;
• controlling electrical resistivity at a start position of a straight body portion of the n-type silicon single crystal to 0.80 mΩcm or more and 1.05 mΩcm or less;
• and
• sequentially lowering the electrical resistivity of the n-type silicon single crystal, as the n-type silicon single crystal is pulled up and grown, such that the electrical resistivity of a portion of the n-type silicon single crystal is adjusted to 0.5 mΩcm or more and 0.7 mΩcm or less,
• wherein:
• an Ar flow rate is from 50 L/min to 150 L/min, and a furnace pressure is from 40 kPa to 80 kPa in a first half of the pulling up of the straight body portion, and
• the Ar flow rate is from 50 L/min to 200 L/min, and the furnace pressure is from 20 kPa to 80 kPa in a second half of the pulling up of the straight body portion.