SiC ingot and SiC wafer
AssigneeResonac Corporation
InventorYoshitaka Nishihara
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Abstract
A SiC ingot includes a seed crystal and a single crystal grown on the seed crystal, wherein the single crystal has therein a micropipe passing through the single crystal in a growth direction, and when photoluminescence observation is performed on a plurality of wafers cut out from the single crystal in a direction intersecting the growth direction, an S/N ratio of the micropipe in a first wafer cut out of the plurality of wafers, which is closest to the seed crystal, is higher than an S/N ratio of the micropipe in a second wafer cut out from a position further away from the seed crystal than the first wafer.
Claims8
A SiC ingot, comprising:
- a seed crystal;
- and
- a single crystal grown on the seed crystal,
- wherein the single crystal has therein one or more micropipes passing through the single crystal in a growth direction, and impurities that are nitrogen, boron, aluminum, titanium, and vanadium, and
- when photoluminescence observation is performed on a plurality of wafers cut out from the single crystal in a direction intersecting the growth direction, an S/N ratio of the one or more micropipes in a first wafer cut out of the plurality of wafers, which is closest to the seed crystal, is higher than an S/N ratio of the one or more micropipes in a second wafer cut out from a position further away from the seed crystal than the first wafer,
- the S/N ratio of the one or more micropipes in the first wafer is 1.5 or more,
- the S/N ratio of the one or more micropipes in the second wafer is 0.75 or less, and
- wherein a concentration difference between impurity concentrations in a first region corresponding to the first wafer and impurity concentrations in a second region corresponding to the second wafer, which is 10 mm or more away from the first region in the growth direction, satisfies the following relationships:
- impurity concentration difference of titanium:
- 1×1016 impurity atoms/cm3 or more
- impurity concentration difference of vanadium:
- 1×1014 impurity atoms/cm3 or more, and
- in the single crystal, impurity concentrations on the outermost surface on the terminal side in the growth direction satisfy the following relationships:
- impurity concentration of titanium:
- 1×1015 impurity atoms/cm3 or more
- impurity concentration of vanadium:
- 1×1014 impurity atoms/cm3 or more
- a total impurity concentration of the impurities in the first region is higher than that in the second region, and
- the total impurity concentration of the first region is 1×1014 impurity atoms/cm3 or more and the total impurity concentration of the second region is 2×1019 impurity atoms/cm3 or less.
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