Method for manufacturing a gallium nitride group compound...

Details Method for manufacturing a gallium nitride group compound... Method for manufacturing a gallium nitride group compound...

2006-01-10

2006-01-10

Mulpuri, Savitri (Department: 2812)

Semiconductor device manufacturing: process

Making device or circuit emissive of nonelectrical signal

C438S483000

Reexamination Certificate

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06984536

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein are (1) a light-emitting semiconductor device that uses a gallium nitride compound semiconductor (AlxGa1−xN) in which the n-layer of n-type gallium nitride compound semiconductor (AlxGa1−xN) is of double-layer structure including an n-layer of low carrier concentration and an n+-layer of high carrier concentration, the former being adjacent to the i-layer of insulating gallium nitride compound semiconductor (AlxGa1−xN); (2) a light-emitting semiconductor device of similar structure as above in which the i-layer is of double-layer structure including an iL-layer of low impurity concentration containing p-type impurities in comparatively low concentration and an iH-layer of high impurity concentration containing p-type impurities in comparatively high concentration, the former being adjacent to the n-layer; (3) a light-emitting semiconductor device having both of the above-mentioned features and (4) a method of producing a layer of an n-type gallium nitride compound semiconductor (AlxGa1−xN) having a controlled conductivity from an organometallic compound by vapor phase epitaxy, by feeding a silicon-containing gas and other raw material gases together at a controlled mixing ratio.

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