COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
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    COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE 审中-公开
    复合半导体衬底,半导体元件及其制造方法的半导体元件,

    公开(公告)号:EP2381018A4

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-13

    申请号:EP09838333

    申请日:2009-01-26

    IPC分类号: C30B29/38 C30B33/12

    摘要: A compound semiconductor substrate 10 according to the present invention is comprised of a Group III nitride and has a surface layer 12 containing a chloride of not less than 200×10 10 atoms/cm 2 and not more than 12000× 10 10 atoms/cm 2 in terms of C1 and an oxide of not less than 3.0 at% and not more than 15.0 at% in terms of O, at a surface. The inventors conducted elaborate research and newly discovered that when the surface layer 12 at the surface of the compound semiconductor substrate 10 contained the chloride of not less than 200 × 10 10 atoms/cm 2 and not more than 12000x 10 10 atoms/cm 2 in terms of Cl and the oxide of not less than 3.0 at% and not more than 15.0 at% in terms of O, Si was reduced at an interface between the compound semiconductor substrate 10 and an epitaxial layer 14 formed thereon and, as a result, the electric resistance at the interface was reduced.