Abstract:
A gallium nitride semiconductor device is disclosed that can be made by an easy manufacturing method. The device includes a silicon substrate, buffer layers formed on the top surface of the silicon substrate, and gallium nitride grown layers formed thereon. The silicon substrate has trenches 12 formed from the bottom surface, each trench having a depth reaching the gallium nitride grown layer through the silicon substrate and the buffer layers. The inside surface of each of the trenches and the bottom surface of the silicon substrate is covered with a drain electrode as a metal film. The vertical gallium nitride semiconductor device with this structure allows an electric current to flow in the direction of the thickness of the silicon substrate regardless of the resistance values of the gallium nitride grown layers and the buffer layers.
Abstract:
A semiconductor nanocrystal can have a barbell shape. The nanocrystal can include two semiconductor materials selected so that upon excitation, one charge carrier is substantially confined to the one semiconductor material and the other charge carrier is substantially confined to the other semiconductor material.
Abstract:
There is provided a nitride semiconductor light emitting device. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first nitride semiconductor layer including amorphous powder, an active layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer, and a second nitride semiconductor layer on the active layer.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting diode, which includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a plurality of protruded portions on one main surface thereof wherein the protruded portion is made of a material different in type from that of the substrate and growing a first nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer on each recess portion of the substrate through a state of making a triangle in section wherein a bottom surface of the recess portion becomes a base of the triangle; laterally growing a second nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer on the substrate from the first nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer; and successively growing, on the second nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer, a third nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer of a first conduction type, an active layer, and a fourth nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor layer of a second conduction type.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the production of self-supporting substrates comprising element III nitrides. More specifically, the invention relates to a method of producing a self-supporting substrate comprising a III-nitride, in particular, gallium nitride (GaN), which is obtained by means of epitaxy using a starting substrate. The invention is characterised in that it consists in depositing a single-crystal silicon-based intermediary layer by way of a sacrificial layer which is intended to be spontaneously vaporised during the III-nitride epitaxy step. The inventive method can be used, for example, to produce a flat, self-supporting III-nitride layer having a diameter greater than 2″.
Abstract:
A doping method for forming quantum dots is disclosed, which includes following steps: providing a first precursor solution for a group II element and a second precursor solution for a group VI element; heating and mixing the first precursor solution and the second precursor solution for forming a plurality of II–VI compound cores of the quantum dots dispersing in a melting mixed solution; and injecting a third precursor solution for a group VI element and a forth precursor solution with at least one dopant to the mixed solution in turn at a fixed time interval in order to form quantum dots with multi-shell dopant; wherein the dopant described here is selected from a group consisting of transitional metal and halogen elements. This method of the invention can dope the dopants in the inner quantum dot and enhance the emission intensity efficiently.
Abstract:
The present invention provides semiconductor-on-diamond devices, and methods for the formation thereof. In one aspect, a mold is provided which has an interface surface configured to inversely match a configuration intended for the device surface of a diamond layer. An adynamic diamond layer is then deposited upon the diamond interface surface of the mold, and a substrate is joined to the growth surface of the adynamic diamond layer. At least a portion of the mold can then be removed to expose the device surface of the diamond which has received a shape which inversely corresponds to the configuration of the mold's diamond interface surface. The mold can be formed of a suitable semiconductor material which is thinned to produce a final device. Optionally, a semiconductor material can be coupled to the diamond layer subsequent to removal of the mold.
Abstract:
High quality epitaxial layers of compound semiconductor materials can be grown overlying large silicon wafers by first growing an accommodating buffer layer on a silicon wafer. The accommodating buffer layer is a layer of monocrystalline oxide spaced apart from the silicon wafer by an amorphous interface layer of silicon oxide. The amorphous interface layer dissipates strain and permits the growth of a high quality monocrystalline oxide accommodating buffer layer. Any lattice mismatch between the accommodating buffer layer and the underlying silicon substrate is taken care of by the amorphous interface layer.
Abstract:
The present invention provides semiconductor-on-diamond devices, and methods for the formation thereof. In one aspect, a mold is provided which has an interface surface configured to inversely match a configuration intended for the device surface of a diamond layer. An adynamic diamond layer is then deposited upon the diamond interface surface of the mold, and a substrate is joined to the growth surface of the adynamic diamond layer. At least a portion of the mold can then be removed to expose the device surface of the diamond which has received a shape which inversely corresponds to the configuration of the mold's diamond interface surface. The mold can be formed of a suitable semiconductor material which is thinned to produce a final device. Optionally, a semiconductor material can be coupled to the diamond layer subsequent to removal of the mold.
Abstract:
The present invention provides to a gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor and a method of manufacturing the same, capable of reducing crystal defects caused by a difference in lattice parameters, and minimizing internal residual stress. In particular, since a high-quality GaN thin film is formed on a silicon wafer, manufacturing costs can be reduced by securing high-quality wafers with a large diameter at a low price, and applicability to a variety of devices and circuit can also be improved.