A substrate comprising a bonding face having open cavities, configured to serve as a receiver substrate in a method for transferring a semiconductor layer from a donor substrate having a weakening plane to the receiver substrate, the method comprising producing, by putting the donor substrate and the bonding face of the receiver substrate in contact, an assembly wherein the cavities are buried and separating the assembly by fracture along the weakening plane,
- wherein the bonding face has, apart from the open cavities, a bonding surface that comes into contact with the donor substrate when the assembly is produced, the bonding surface comprising
- a region devoid of cavities, one dimension of the region devoid of cavities is at least 100 μm and the region devoid of cavities has a surface area of at least 1 mm2, and
- an intercavity space that occupies from 15 to 50% of the face of the receiver substrate excluding the region devoid of cavities.