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Method for fabricating nitride semiconductor device

US6518082B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 16, 2001
Grant dateFeb 11, 2003
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Expiry dateMar 16, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S5/34333
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

First, the substrate temperature is set to 1020° C., and an n-type cladding layer (14) made of n-type Al0.1Ga0.9N, an n-type optical guide layer (15) made of n-type GaN, and a flatness maintenance layer (16) made of n-type Al0.2Ga0.8N for maintaining the surface flatness of the n-type optical guide layer (15) by suppressing re-evaporation of the constituent atoms of the n-type optical guide layer (15), are grown in this order on a substrate (11) made of sapphire. Then, the supply of a group III material gas is stopped, the substrate temperature is decreased to 780° C., and the carrier gas is switched from a hydrogen gas to a nitrogen gas. Then, an active layer (17) having a multiple quantum well structure is grown by introducing NH3 as a group V source and selectively introducing TMI and TMG as a group III source.

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