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Method for producing a group II-VI compound semiconductor thin film and a group II-VI compound semiconductor device
Assignee: Sharp Corp
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Filing: 1993-12-17
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Granted: 1996-04-16
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Expires: 2013-12-17
Abstract
Abstract A method for fabricating a semiconductor thin film is disclosed. The method includes the step of epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer made of a group II-VI compound semiconductor to have a thickness of at least one atomic layer or more, on a main plane of a single-crystal semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane.
Inventors
- 👤 Kenji Nakanishi
- 👤 Masahiko Kitagawa
- 👤 Yoshitaka Tomomura
- 👤 Shinya Hirata
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-06 15:49
CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10H; H10H20/00; H10H20/80; H10H20/81; H10H20/822; H10H20/823; H01; H01S; H01S5/00; H01S5/02; H01S5/0206; H01S5/0218; H01S5/30; H01S5/32; H01S5/327; H10H20/817; H10P; H10P14/00; H10P14/20; H10P14/22; H10P14/29; H10P14/2901; H10P14/2907; H10P14/2911; H10P14/2913; H10P14/2915; H10P14/2926; H10P14/34; H10P14/3402; H10P14/3424; H10P14/3428; H10P14/3431; H10P14/3438; H10P14/3441; H10P14/3442; H01S5/3202
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 24
Claim 1
Independent Claim
110 words
A method for fabricating a semiconductor thin film including the step of epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer made of a group II-VI compound semiconductor to have a thickness of at least one atomic layer or more, on a main plane of a single-crystal semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure and being lattice-mismatched with the semiconductor layer, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane, wherein substantial misorientation occurs between the single-crystal semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layer along a direction of inclination of the main plane.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
110 words
A method for fabricating a semiconductor thin film including the step of epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer made of a group II-VI compound semiconductor to have a thickness of at least one atomic layer or more, on a main plane of a single-crystal semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure and being lattice-mismatched with the semiconductor layer, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane, wherein substantial misorientation occurs between the single-crystal semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layer along a direction of inclination of the main plane.
Claim 3
Independent Claim
89 words
A method for fabricating a semiconductor thin film including the step of epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer made of a group II-VI compound semiconductor to have a thickness of at least one atomic layer or more, on a main plane of a single-crystal semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane, wherein the main plane is a (511) plane.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
89 words
A method for fabricating a semiconductor thin film including the step of epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer made of a group II-VI compound semiconductor to have a thickness of at least one atomic layer or more, on a main plane of a single-crystal semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane, wherein the main plane is a (511) plane.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
116 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a single-crystal semiconductor substrate having a main plane and having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane; and a semiconductor layered structure including at least one or more semiconductor layers which is epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor layers being made of group II-VI compound semiconductors and being lattice-mismatched with the single-crystal semiconductor substrate, wherein substantial misorientation occurs between the single-crystal semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layers along a direction of inclination of the main plane.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
116 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a single-crystal semiconductor substrate having a main plane and having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane; and a semiconductor layered structure including at least one or more semiconductor layers which is epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor layers being made of group II-VI compound semiconductors and being lattice-mismatched with the single-crystal semiconductor substrate, wherein substantial misorientation occurs between the single-crystal semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layers along a direction of inclination of the main plane.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
16 words
A light emitting device according to claim 3, wherein the main plane is a (511) plane.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
84 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor layered structure including at least an active layer for recombining electrons with holes, wherein in the semiconductor layered structure, an intensity distribution of light emitted from the active layer along a direction perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate is asymmetric with respect to the active layer, thereby locating the maximum region of the intensity distribution of the light generated by the recombination outside the active layer.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
84 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor layered structure including at least an active layer for recombining electrons with holes, wherein in the semiconductor layered structure, an intensity distribution of light emitted from the active layer along a direction perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate is asymmetric with respect to the active layer, thereby locating the maximum region of the intensity distribution of the light generated by the recombination outside the active layer.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
70 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor layered structure including at least an active layer for recombining electrons with holes and two light guiding layers formed to interpose at least the active layer, the light guiding layers having different thicknesses, thereby locating the maximum region of intensity distribution of light generated by the recombination outside the active layer.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
70 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor layered structure including at least an active layer for recombining electrons with holes and two light guiding layers formed to interpose at least the active layer, the light guiding layers having different thicknesses, thereby locating the maximum region of intensity distribution of light generated by the recombination outside the active layer.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
56 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor layered structure including an active layer for recombining electrons with holes, two light guiding layers formed to interpose the active layer, and two dislocation suppressing layers formed to interpose the two light guiding layers for suppressing dislocations.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
56 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor layered structure including an active layer for recombining electrons with holes, two light guiding layers formed to interpose the active layer, and two dislocation suppressing layers formed to interpose the two light guiding layers for suppressing dislocations.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
17 words
A light emitting device according to claim 7, wherein the two dislocation suppressing layers are strained-layer superlattice.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
77 words
A light emitting device according to claim 3, wherein the semiconductor layered structure further includes at least an active layer for recombining electrons with holes, wherein in the semiconductor layered structure, an intensity distribution of light emitted from the active layer along a direction perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate is asymmetric with respect to the active layer, thereby locating the maximum region of the intensity distribution of the light generated by the recombination outside the active layer.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
52 words
A light emitting device according to claim 3, wherein the semiconductor layered structure further includes two light guiding layers formed to interpose at least the active layer, the light guiding layers having different thicknesses, thereby locating the maximum region of intensity distribution of light generated by the recombination outside the active layer.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
49 words
A light emitting device according to claim 3, wherein the semiconductor layered structure further includes an active layer for recombining electrons with holes, two light guiding layers formed to interpose the active layer, and two dislocation suppressing layers formed to interpose the two light guiding layers for suppressing dislocations.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
17 words
A light emitting device according to claim 11, wherein the two dislocation suppressing layers are strained-layer superlattice.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
93 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a single-crystal semiconductor substrate having a main plane and having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane; and a semiconductor layered structure including at least one or more semiconductor which is epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor layers being made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, wherein the main plane is a (511) plane.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
93 words
A light emitting device made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, the device comprising: a single-crystal semiconductor substrate having a main plane and having one of a diamond structure and a zinc blende structure, the main plane being inclined by an angle in the range of 2 to 16 degrees with respect to a (100) plane; and a semiconductor layered structure including at least one or more semiconductor which is epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor layers being made of group II-VI compound semiconductors, wherein the main plane is a (511) plane.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the direction of inclination of the main plane is a <110> direction.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
21 words
A light emitting device according to claim 3, wherein the direction of inclination of the main plane is a <110> direction.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the direction of inclination of the main plane is an off-angle direction.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
21 words
A light emitting device according to claim 3, wherein the direction of inclination of the main plane is an off-angle direction.
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