Process for manufacturing semiconductor wafers having deformation ground in a defined way

A method of producing semiconductor wafers having ground warp deformation from semiconductor wafers which are cut from the end face of a rod-shaped semiconductor crystal, which method comprises:

• (a) fixing the semiconductor wafer onto a wafer pickup with a first surface of the wafer, the wafer pickup having an axis of rotation;
• (b) in a first grinding step, grinding an opposite, second surface of the semiconductor wafer with a grinding tool having an axis of rotation, said grinding tool and said wafer pickup rotating during the grinding and the axis of rotation of the grinding tool being inclined in two spatial directions with respect to the axis of rotation of the wafer pickup;
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• (c) in a second grinding step, grinding the first surface of the semiconductor wafer parallel to a pickup face of said wafer pickup, the second surface of the semiconductor wafer being held tangentially to the wafer pickup during the second grinding step.