Single crystal gan substrate, method of growing same and method of producing same

Abstract

The invention provides a single crystal gan substrate, a method of growing same and a method of producing same. A stripe mask pattern is formed with regularity on a base substrate. On the pattern, grooves are composed of facets and maintained, while GaN is subjected to facet growth to form closing defects collection regions H at the groove bottom parts where dislocation is collected to achieve the lower dislocation in a single crystal low dislocation region Z and a single crystal low dislocation remain region around the closing defects collection regions H. Because the region H is closed, the dislocation is confined and is not released again.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to single crystal gallium nitride (GaN) that can be used as a substrate of blue light emitting elements such as blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) and blue semiconductor lasers (LDs) composed of group III-V nitride semiconductors A substrate, a single crystal gallium nitride substrate (GaN) growth method, and a single crystal gallium nitride substrate (GaN) manufacturing method. Background technique [0002] Light-emitting elements using nitride-based semiconductors (InGaN, GaN) are already in practical use as blue LEDs. However, since GaN substrates with large areas cannot be obtained, insulating sapphire (α-Al 2 o 3 ) as the substrate. The LED structure was fabricated by growing GAN and INGAN films heterogeneously on the three-dimensional plane of symmetry of sapphire. Also, GAN-based LEDs using SIC substrates have been proposed and partially put into practical use. GAINN-like blue LEDs fabricated on sapphire substra...

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This will increase the cost

[0006] The above are the shortcomings when used as LED substrates. In the case of semiconductor lasers (LDs), due to the lack of cleavage, there is the problem that the end faces of laser resonators cannot be made by cleavage.

The end face of the resonator must be formed by grinding and etching, which is time-consuming

There is another disadvantage: after all, the defect density is high

But there is such a problem: it is not just completely concentrated on one point, but somewhat scattered

Here, the messy displacement caused by blooming is the first problem

[0041] The second problem is: when the displacement is concentrated at the bottom of the pit 4 formed by the concave-convex surface 6, the planar defect 10 formed at the center of the pit is at an angle of 60° to each other.

However, there are problems when trying to make thick substrate crystals instead of thin films

Since the method uses a large amount of gas, the raw material gas yield is low

For thin films, this is not a problem, but for forming substrates, the low yield is a disadvantage

There is another problem: since the raw material contains organic matter and carbon, carbon will be mixed in when GaN is formed.

But the surface does not have 3-degree symmetry

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