Abstract: To improve the gettering performance by ion implanting boron and improves the production yield of the semiconductor device by using an epitaxial wafer of good quality suppressing the occurrence of dislocations. For this purpose, an epitaxial wafer in which an epitaxial layer of about 1 &mgr;m is formed to a CZ semiconductor substrate implanted with boron ions which are dopant and carbon ions which are not a dopant is provided, and transistors are formed on the surface of the epitaxial layer.

Abstract: To improve the gettering performance by ion implanting boron and improves the production yield of the semiconductor device by using an epitaxial wafer of good quality suppressing the occurrence of dislocations. For this purpose, an epitaxial wafer in which an epitaxial layer of about 1 &mgr;m is formed to a CZ semiconductor substrate implanted with boron ions which are dopant and carbon ions which are not a dopant is provided, and transistors are formed on the surface of the epitaxial layer.

Abstract: An inspection method and apparatus for discriminating the foreign particles on the surface of a sample from the foreign particles or defects within the sample, and a semiconductor-device producing method using the inspection method and apparatus. The inspection apparatus includes a light source, a first optical system that causes the light from the source to be directed to the sample, a second optical system for condensing the light coming back from the sample, a polarizing prism for separating the condensed light into polarized components, and optical detectors, for detecting the polarized components. The two optical systems, are arranged for their optical axes to make an angle of 50.degree. to 120.degree. relative to each other.