摘要:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor laser comprises successively epitaxially growing on a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate (1), a first conductivity type lower cladding layer (2) comprising a semiconductor material having an effective band gap energy, an active layer (3) comprising a semiconductor material having an effective band gap energy smaller than that of the lower cladding layer (2), a second conductivity type first upper cladding layer (4) comprising the same material as the lower cladding layer (2) and having a relatively high etching rate by an etchant, a second conductivity type etch stopping layer (5) comprising a semiconductor material having a relatively low etching rate by the etchant, a second conductivity type second upper cladding layer (6) comprising the same material as the first upper cladding layer (4), and a second conductivity type first contact layer (7) comprising a semiconductor material; forming a stripe-shaped mask (8) on the first contact layer (7), the mask (8) extending in a reverse mesa direction that provides a stripe-shaped ridge structure having a reverse mesa cross section; using the mask (8), removing portions of the first contact layer (7) and the second upper cladding layer (6) by a first wet etching to expose the etch stopping layer (5); removing portions of the second upper cladding layer (6) by a second wet etching to form a stripe-shaped ridge structure having a reverse mesa cross section (19); growing a first conductivity type current blocking layer (12) contacting both sides of the ridge structure (19); and after removal of the mask (8), growing a second conductivity type second contact layer (13) comprising the same material as the first contact layer (7) on the current blocking layer (12) and on the first contact layer (7). In this method, a lower portion of the ridge structure having the ridge width increasing toward the active layer is etched selectively with respect to the etch stopping layer by the second wet etching, whereby the angle produced between the side wall of the ridge and the surface of the etch stopping layer is made an acute angle. As a result, a stripe-shaped ridge structure having a perfect reverse mesa cross section in which the ridge width is narrowest at the bottom of the ridge proximate to the active layer is obtained.
摘要:
In an avalanche photodiode a light absorption layer (3) and a multiplication layer (16) are first grown on a substrate. The multiplication layer is then mesa-etched and a second semiconductor layer (18) is grown on the mesa-etched multiplication layer. A dopant having a conductivity opposite to that of the above layers is introduced from the top of the second semiconductor layer to form a doped region (17) extending inside the mesa portion and a p-n junction is therefore formed inside the mesa-etched portion. This causes the distribution of multiplication in the active area to become uniform since the rough surface of the top of the mesa-etched portion exists outside the multiplication region.
摘要:
According to the present invention, there are provided a method for heat treatment of silicon wafers wherein a silicon wafer is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature of from 1000°C to the melting point of silicon in an inert gas atmosphere, and temperature decreasing in the heat treatment is performed in an atmosphere containing 1-60% by volume of hydrogen, a method for heat treatment of silicon wafers under a reducing atmosphere containing hydrogen by using a rapid heating and rapid cooling apparatus, wherein temperature decreasing rate from the maximum temperature in the heat treatment to 700°C is controlled to be 20°C/sec or less, and a silicon wafer which has a crystal defect density of 1.0 x 10 4 defects/cm 3 or more in a wafer bulk portion, a crystal defect density of 1.0 x 10 4 defects/cm 3 or less in a wafer surface layer of a depth of 0.5 µm from the surface, a crystal defect density of 0.15 defects/cm 2 or less on a wafer surface and surface roughness of 1.0 nm or less in terms of the P-V value. By these, crystal defects in wafer surface layers can be reduced by a simple method with a small amount of hydrogen used without degrading microroughness of wafers.
摘要翻译:根据本发明,提供了一种硅晶片的热处理方法,其中硅晶片在惰性气体气氛中在1000℃至硅的熔点进行热处理,并且温度降低 在热处理中,在含有1-60体积%的氢的气氛中进行,通过使用快速加热和快速冷却装置,在含氢的还原气氛下热处理硅晶片的方法,其中从最大值 在700℃下的热处理温度控制在20℃/秒以下,晶片体积中的晶体缺陷密度为1.0×10 4缺陷/ cm 3以上的硅晶片 在距表面0.5μm的晶片表面层中的晶体缺陷密度为1.0×10 4缺陷/ cm 3以下,晶体缺陷密度为0.15缺陷/ cm 2或 较少在晶圆表面和表面粗糙 在P-V值方面为1.0nm以下。 通过这些,可以通过使用少量氢气的简单方法来降低晶片表面层中的晶体缺陷,而不会降低晶片的微观粗糙度。
摘要:
A method and apparatus for processing a thin metal layer on a substrate to control the grain size, grain shape, and grain boundary location and orientation in the metal layer by irradiating the metal layer with a first excimer laser pulse having an intensity pattern defined by a mask to have shadow regions and beamlets. Each region of the metal layer overlapped by a beamlet is melted throughout its entire thickness, and each region of the metal layer overlapped by a shadow region remains at least partially unmelted. Each at least partially unmelted region adjoins adjacent melted regions. After irradiation by the first excimer laser pulse, the melted regions of the metal layer are permitted to resolidify. During resolidification, the at least partially unmelted regions seed growth of grains in adjoining melted regions to produce larger grains. After completion of resolidification of the melted regions following irradiation by the first excimer laser pulse, the metal layer is irradiated by a second excimer laser pulse having a shifted intensity pattern so that the shadow regions overlap regions of the metal layer having fewer and larger grains. Each region of the metal layer overlapped by one of the shifted beamlets is melted throughout its entire thickness, while each region of the metal layer overlapped by one of the shifted shadow regions remains at least partially unmelted. During resolidification of the melted regions after irradiation by the second radiation beam pulse, the larger grains in the at least partially unmelted regions seed growth of even larger grains in adjoining melted regions. The irradiation, resolidification and re-irradiation of the metal layer may be repeated, as needed, until a desired grain structure is obtained in the metal layer.
摘要:
Metal-grade silicon is melted and solidified in a mold to form a plate-shaped silicon layer and a crystalline silicon layer is made thereon, thereby providing a cheap solar cell without a need for a slicing step.
摘要:
A GaP light emitting element substrate comprising an n-type GaP layer (12), a nitrogen-doped n-type GaP layer (13) and a p-type GaP layer (14) layered one after another on a multi-layer GaP substrate built by forming an n-type GaP buffer layer(s) (11) on an n-type GaP single crystal substrate (10), wherein the sulfur (S) concentration in said n-type GaP buffer layer (11) is made to be 5 x 10¹⁶ [atoms/cc] or less. The method of manufacturing it is as follows: an n-type GaP buffer layer(s) (11) is formed on an n-type GaP single crystal substrate (10) to prepare a multi-layer GaP substrate, then an n-type GaP layer (12), a nitrogen doped n-type GaP layer (13) and a p-type GaP layer (14) are layered on said multi-layer GaP substrate by means of the melt-back method to obtain a GaP light emitting element substrate, wherein the sulfur (S) concentration in said n-type GaP buffer layer (11) is made to be 5 x 10¹⁶ [atoms/cc] or less when the multi-layer GaP substrate is prepared.