摘要:
A method is provided for manufacturing a double hetero-structure of InGaAsP/InP, or, alternatively of InGaAs/InP, for use in lasers and LEDs by means of liquid phase epitaxy. The resulting structures emit optical radiation up to a wavelength of about 1.7 .mu.m. As a result of growing the InP cover layer from an Sn-In-P solution, the meltback of the active layer at gap wavelengths .gtoreq.1.5 .mu.m is avoided, and, thus, no anti-meltback layer is needed. By employing an inverted format for the layer structure with respect to the doping of a starting p-InP substrate, the necessarily highly n-doped InP cover layer has the correct conductivity type. The so-produced double hetero-structures are composed of only three epitaxial layers.