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- the present invention relates to a nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. More specifically, regardless of the type of substrate used, a high-quality nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor layer, In particular, the present invention relates to a nitride III-V compound semiconductor device having a GaN-based compound semiconductor layer formed thereon and a method of manufacturing the same.
- these semiconductor devices generally include one or more semiconductor layers formed by epitaxially growing a predetermined semiconductor material on a substrate made of a predetermined material.
- the laminated semiconductor structure is manufactured by forming a laminated structure of the semiconductor laminated structure, subjecting the semiconductor laminated structure to processing such as etching, doping, and patterning, and then loading electrodes at predetermined locations.
- GaN As semiconductor materials for manufacturing such semiconductor devices, ill-V group compound semiconductors represented by GaAs are widely used by Sogyu.
- nitride-based III-V compound semiconductors such as BN, A 1 N, InN, and GaN, particularly, GaN, A 1 GaN, InGaN, and Al In GaN-based compound semiconductors such as GaN are expected to be used as materials for optical semiconductor devices because they operate in a wide band from visible light to ultraviolet light and can operate at high temperatures.
- GaN-based compound semiconductors GaN has attracted attention as a material for blue light-emitting diodes.
- a single-crystal GaN substrate is required as a substrate.
- this GaN has a crystal structure of wurtzite type, has a melting point of more than 20000, and has a high vapor pressure at its melting point. It is not possible to apply the horizontal ridgeman method, pulling method, etc., which are commonly used as crystal growth techniques for ill-V compound semiconductors such as GaAs. Therefore, it is difficult to manufacture a GaN bulk crystal, which makes it impossible to manufacture a GaN single crystal. You.
- a GaN single crystal wafer cannot be used as a substrate for crystal growth, so that a different material such as sapphire must be used as a substrate for crystal growth.
- the GaN-based compound semiconductor is directly epitaxially grown on this sapphire substrate.
- the obtained crystal has many lattice defects and cannot be of a practically usable quality.
- a buffer layer made of amorphous A 1 N was once formed on a sapphire substrate, for example, by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), and then on this buffer layer.
- MOCVD metal organic chemical vapor deposition
- G aN, A 1 G aN, In G aN, etc. are laminated in a single layer or a plurality of layers.
- a buffer layer mainly composed of amorphous GaN is formed in advance on a sapphire substrate by MOCVD, a thick epitaxial growth of GaN may be performed on this buffer layer. Is being done.
- a buffer layer composed of amorphous A1N or GaN is formed on the surface of a different material, for example, a sapphire substrate, and then the desired GaN-based compound semiconductor epitaxy is formed. Growth is taking place.
- the formation of the amorphous buffer layer can be performed at a temperature lower than the temperature at which the epitaxial crystal of the constituent material of the buffer layer is grown.
- a film can be formed by the MOC VD method at a temperature of 500 to 600, and a gas source molecular beam at a temperature of 500 to 55.
- the film can also be formed by the epitaxial method (GSMBE method).
- the amorphous buffer layer In this buffer layer, an amorphous body such as A 1 N or GaN grown like an island grown on the sapphire substrate is planarly grown and covers the surface of the sapphire substrate like a film. Therefore, in order to increase the smoothness of the formed buffer layer, it is necessary to increase the thickness of the buffer layer to a certain thickness or more.
- This buff Increasing the film thickness of the metal layer is not only necessary from the viewpoint of ensuring the above-mentioned surface smoothness, but also increasing the thickness of the GaN-based compound semiconductor formed on the sapphire substrate and the buffer layer.
- the buffer layer is made of amorphous A 1 N, the thickness is about 10 to 5 O nm.
- the crystalline state of the buffer layer changes from an amorphous state to a polycrystalline structure, and the surface state becomes rough.
- the crystallinity of the GaN-based compound semiconductor to be formed deteriorates. Whether the surface condition of the buffer layer has deteriorated or has not deteriorated can be explained by the fact that the buffer layer is not made of single crystal, so a high-speed electron beam diffractometer (RHEED) It cannot be grasped by using such methods.
- RHEED high-speed electron beam diffractometer
- Increasing the thickness of the buffer layer means increasing the time for forming the buffer layer. Therefore, the productivity at the time of manufacturing the target semiconductor device is reduced, and the use of an expensive sapphire substrate causes a problem that the semiconductor device becomes extremely expensive. is there.
- LED blue light-emitting elements have been obtained using GaN-based compound semiconductors, but their quality and price are not necessarily sufficient.
- An object of the present invention is to apply a semiconductor device having a high quality nitride-based III-V group compound semiconductor layer formed thereon regardless of the type of substrate used, and a method of manufacturing the same. is there.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a buffer layer interposed between a substrate and a nitride-based II I-V compound semiconductor layer which is much thinner than a conventional amorphous buffer layer.
- a buffer layer interposed between a substrate and a nitride-based II I-V compound semiconductor layer which is much thinner than a conventional amorphous buffer layer.
- the surface state is smooth, high-quality nitride-based III-V compound semiconductors can be epitaxially grown on the surface, and the overall manufacturing cost can be significantly reduced. And a method of manufacturing the same. Disclosure of the invention
- the present invention provides a nitride III-V compound semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; and a GaN single crystal film having a thickness of 3 nm or less formed on the surface of the substrate. And at least one nitride III-V compound semiconductor layer formed on the GaN single crystal film. This is hereinafter referred to as a first semiconductor device.
- a nitride III-V compound semiconductor device comprising: a Si single crystal substrate; a Si ON film formed on a surface of the Si single crystal substrate; And at least one nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor layer formed on the substrate. This is hereinafter referred to as a second semiconductor device.
- the nitride-based III one V compound semiconductor device consisting of: forming a G a N single crystal film of GaN single crystal by Epitakisharu growth thickness 3nm or less on the surface of the substrate And epitaxially growing a nitride-based ill-V compound semiconductor on the GaN single crystal film to form at least one layer of a nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor.
- This manufacturing method is the above-described first semiconductor device manufacturing method, and is hereinafter referred to as a first manufacturing method.
- a method of manufacturing a nitride III-V compound semiconductor device comprising: partially nitriding the natural oxide film of an Si single crystal substrate having an oxide film formed on the surface; Next, a nitride II I-V compound semiconductor is epitaxially grown on the SiO 2 film to form at least one nitride III-V compound semiconductor layer. Filming is provided.
- This manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing the above-described second semiconductor device, and is hereinafter referred to as a second manufacturing method.
- the present invention will be described in detail when the nitride III-V compound semiconductor is a GaN compound semiconductor.
- FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a substrate configuration of the first semiconductor device S1.
- the first semiconductor device S 1 has a structure in which a GaN single crystal film 2 is formed on a substrate 1 and a GaN compound semiconductor layer 3 is formed on the GaN single crystal film 2.
- the GaN-based compound semiconductor layer 3 is a single layer. Further, a desired number of GaN-based compound semiconductor layers may be laminated thereon.
- the constituent material of the substrate 1 is not particularly limited as long as it is a material capable of growing a GaN single crystal on its surface. It goes without saying that a Si single crystal substrate, a GaAs single crystal substrate, and a GaAs single crystal substrate can also be used by applying the method described later.
- the GaN single crystal film 2 functions as a buffer layer during epitaxial growth of the GaN compound semiconductor on the substrate 1, and its film pressure is set to 3 nm or less.
- the film thickness is more than 3 nm, the formed GaN single crystal film has many defects and its crystallinity deteriorates.
- the crystal of the GaN-based compound semiconductor formed on this This is because it makes the sex worse.
- it is preferably 2 to 3 nm.
- the GaN single crystal referred to in the present invention is a state in which the crystal orientation is aligned to the extent that a streak-like diffraction pattern can be observed when the obtained film is observed by RHEED, for example, at an acceleration voltage of 25 keV.
- the GaN single crystal film described above is formed on a substrate.
- This GaN single crystal film can be formed by MOCVD or GSMBE.
- MOCVD MOCVD
- GSMBE GaN single crystal film
- the film may be formed by irradiating a Ga source such as triethylgallium and an N source such as dimethylhydrazine.
- the film may be formed by irradiating the metal Ga from the Knudsen cell and the N source described above while controlling the surface temperature of the substrate to 650 to 750.
- the GaN single crystal film 2 can also be formed as follows.
- the surface of the substrate is irradiated with metal Ga from a Knudsen cell to form one or two monolayers of metal Ga on the surface, and the entire surface of the substrate is rich in Ga. State.
- epitaxy growth of a GaN-based compound semiconductor is performed on the surface of the GaN-rich substrate.
- the supplied N source and the metal Ga monomolecular film combine to be converted into a GaN single crystal, so that the GaN single crystal film is uniform on the entire surface of the substrate. Is formed. Therefore, the GaN-based compound semiconductor layer that grows on the GaN single-crystal film is also uniform, and the above-mentioned crystal growth in an island shape is eliminated. For this reason, forming a metal Ga monomolecular film on the substrate surface in advance is not suitable for forming a high-quality GaN compound semiconductor layer despite its extremely small thickness. This is preferable in that it becomes possible.
- the first semiconductor device S1 can be obtained by epitaxially growing a desired GaN-based compound semiconductor on the GaN single crystal film.
- a GaN single crystal film can be formed thereon as follows.
- the substrate while irradiating the surface of each substrate with As for a Ga As single crystal substrate and P for a GaP single crystal substrate, the substrate is heated to about 600 to 65 O: under ultra-high vacuum. . By performing such a process, the uppermost surface of the substrate crystal becomes a Ga-rich state.
- the Ga on the substrate surface reacts with the N source, and there is a single GaN compound. A crystalline film will be formed.
- FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing a basic configuration of the second semiconductor device S2.
- a SiO 2 film 2 A is formed on a Si single crystal substrate 1 A, and a GaN-based compound semiconductor layer 3 is formed on the SiO 2 film 2 A.
- the structure is as follows.
- the GaN-based compound semiconductor layer 3 is a single layer, but it is also possible that a desired number of GaN-based compound semiconductor layers may be further laminated thereon. This is the same as the case of the semiconductor device S1.
- the SiON film 2A functions as a buffer layer, and its thickness may be 2 nm or less.
- the Ga single crystal film described in the first semiconductor device S 1 is formed on the SiO 2 film 2 A, and the Ga single crystal film is further formed thereon. It is preferable to form the N-based compound semiconductor layer 3 because the GaN-based compound semiconductor layer 3 can be further improved in crystallinity.
- the natural oxide film of 5 nm extent thickness in S i monocrystalline substrate obtained by slicing a bulk crystal (S I_ ⁇ 2 film) is formed.
- the natural oxide film is completely removed by etching with various etchants to ensure that the substrate crystal is exposed, and then various necessary components are formed. Film treatment has been performed.
- the Si single crystal substrate having the native oxide film may be used as it is, or the thickness of the native oxide film may be 2 nm without removing the entire native oxide film by etching.
- the Si single crystal substrate having the native oxide film may be used as it is, or the thickness of the native oxide film may be 2 nm without removing the entire native oxide film by etching.
- it may be used as a substrate for crystal growth, preferably with about 0.5 to 1 nm remaining.
- the crystal growth apparatus sets S i single crystal substrate native oxide film is formed on the surface, the portion nitrided native oxide (S i 0 2) by irradiating the source of N to the surface To convert it to a SiO 2 film.
- the surface temperature of the substrate is set to 550 to 75 O :, and the processing time varies depending on the thickness of the native oxide film.For example, when the thickness of the native oxide film is 2 nm or less, In this case, it may be about 2 to 10 minutes.
- the supply of the N source is not particularly limited, but must be greater than the theoretical amount required to convert S i ⁇ 2 to 5 i ON.
- a desired GaN-based compound semiconductor is epitaxially grown on the SiO 2 film 2.
- the GaN-based compound semiconductor is GaN
- the temperature is usually raised to about 850 ° C at a rate of 20 to 70: Zmin. At this temperature, the GaN film is formed while keeping the temperature fluctuation within ⁇ 0.5.
- a crystal growth apparatus used when manufacturing the apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
- Apparatus A shown in FIG. 3 has an introduction room A1, a preparation room A2, and a growth room A3.
- a gate valve (not shown) is provided between the introduction room A1 and the preparation room A2, and a gate valve 1 is provided between the preparation room A2 and the growth room A3.
- Introducing room A 1 is equipped with an evening molecular pump (displacement: 500 liters Zsec) combined with a tally pump, and this introducing room A 1 is evacuated from atmospheric pressure to 1 X 10_1 G Torr. You can do it.
- Preparation chamber to A2 for example exhaust 500 L ZSEC ion pump 2, the growth chamber A 3 are attached, each diffusion pump 3, for example, the exhaust amount 500 liters ZSEC, 1 indoor preparation chamber eight 2 10_ 11 1 «0
- the vacuum can be evacuated to an ultra-high vacuum of 3: 3: and the chamber of growth chamber A3 to a predetermined supersonic vacuum.
- a rotatable substrate holder (not shown) for holding the substrate 4 is arranged in the center of the preparation room A2, and the substrate 4 in the holder is transferred from the introduction room A1 to the preparation room A2, and furthermore, A transfer rod 5 for transferring the material from the preparation room A2 to the growth room A3 is installed so that the center axis of the transfer rod 5 coincides with that of the substrate holder. Further, a heat sink 6 is mounted on the holder, so that the substrate 4 in the holder can be heated to a predetermined temperature.
- a viewing window (not shown) is provided in each of the introduction room A1, the preparation room A2, and the growth room A3 so that the transfer of the substrate 4 to each room can be always observed.
- a means B for supplying an ill group element source is provided below the growth chamber A3.
- the supply means B l of metal Ga, supply means B 2 metal I n, and supplying means B 3 of metal A 1, trimethyl gallium (TMG: Ga (CH 3) 3) supply means B4, and This is a supply means B 5 of triethyl gallium (TEG: Ga (C 2 H 5 ) 3 ).
- the growth chamber A 3 is equipped with a means C for supplying an N source. Specifically, the supply means C 1 and dimethylhydrazine ammonia (DMHy: (CH 3) a supply means C 2 of 2 N (NH 2). Further, the supply means D1 for the metal Si and the supply means D2 for the metal Mg are mounted in the growth chamber A3, and these constitute a supply means for the dopant.
- DHy dimethylhydrazine ammonia
- the supply means B1, B2, B3, Dl, D2 are all known Knudsen cells, and have an internal volume of, for example, 10 Occ.
- a crucible made of pBN is placed in the center, and a heater made of Ta, for example, is placed outside the cell, and a heat shield plate is wound around the outside to prevent heat dissipation.
- An automatic shirt opening and closing mechanism which is operated by computer control, is installed at the cell outlet.
- the cell of the supply means B1 has a two-stage structure on the outer side to prevent scattering of the gas gap.
- Each of these supply means B is charged with a predetermined metal element as a raw material.
- the temperature of each metal element charged in the cell is precisely controlled, and each raw material is made to flow into the cell and discharged from the cell outlet toward the surface of the substrate described later.
- the flux density can be precisely adjusted by precisely controlling the heating temperature.
- the cell shirt can be opened and closed instantly to switch the flux irradiation and non-irradiation to the substrate instantly, so that a steep growth surface can be obtained.
- the other supply means B 4, B 5, CI and C 2 are equipped with a variable leak valve or a mass flow controller, since the raw materials supplied here are all fluids, so that the flow rate of the raw materials can be precisely controlled. You can do it.
- ammonia is filled into a 10-liter cylinder, for example, and can be introduced into the growth chamber A3 by precisely controlling the flow rate from a 14-inch stainless steel pipe with a single muff controller.
- dimethylhydrazine supply means C2 dimethylhydrazine is filled into a cylinder of, for example, 50 milliliters, and the flow rate of the dimethylhydrazine is also changed from a 1Z4 inch stainless steel pipe with a variable leak valve. It can be introduced into growth room A3 with ultra-precision control.
- a manifold for setting the substrate 4 transferred from the preparation chamber A2 is arranged, and further, for example, a substrate heating chamber 7 having a diameter of 3 inches is provided.
- the substrate 4 set in the manipulator can be heated and held at a predetermined temperature.
- This manipulator is in the X-axis direction, It can move minutely independently in the Y-axis direction and the ⁇ -axis direction, and has a rotating mechanism.
- the substrate 4 is set so that its surface faces directly below, and is opposed to the above-described supply means.
- the positional relationship between the surface of the substrate 4 and each cell in the supply means ⁇ 1, ⁇ 2, ⁇ 3, Dl, D 2 is large due to the in-plane uniformity of the crystal grown on the surface of the substrate 4.
- the positional relationship is set with great care because it has an effect.
- the above-mentioned ejection ports of the supply means are arranged at an angle of 35 ° with respect to the surface of the substrate 4.
- the crucibles in each Knudsen cell are also preferably arranged at an inclination angle of 3 ° to 7 ° with respect to the axis of the cell.
- each Knudsen cell and substrate heating heater 7 is controlled using FICS 11 (a precision controller manufactured by Eurotherm), and the power supply for these cells and heaters is as follows: A stabilized DC power supply is used to minimize power fluctuations.
- the power supply and the FICS 11 are connected to a computer to perform precise temperature control, and are designed so that the fluctuations in cell temperature during epitaxial growth can be kept within the range of 0.5 soil. .
- a quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS) 8 is installed to analyze the reaction gas in the chamber, and RHEED 9 is installed.
- QMS quadrupole mass spectrometer
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a first semiconductor device example S1 of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing a second semiconductor device S2 of the present invention
- FIG. It is the schematic which shows a growth apparatus.
- the semiconductor device of the present invention was manufactured as follows.
- Example 1 Manufacturing of the first semiconductor device whose substrate is sapphire
- a sapphire substrate with a diameter of 5 cm was ultrasonically cleaned with acetone for 15 minutes, then the surface was etched with a hot phosphoric acid solution at a temperature of 150, and then washed with ultrapure water, and immediately in the introduction chamber A1.
- introduction chamber A 1 by operating the turbo-molecular pump (not shown), also evacuated the preparation chamber A 2 by operating the ion pump, both chambers 5 X 1 0 - became 8 Tor r
- a gate valve (not shown) was opened, and the sapphire substrate was transferred from the introduction chamber A1 to the preparation chamber A2 by the transfer rod 5 and set in the substrate holder (not shown).
- Preparation Room degree of vacuum was further evacuated A 2 is 1 X 1 0- 9 Toi: operating a substrate heater 6 when it becomes r heating the substrate 4 to the 5 0 0, at that temperature After holding for 15 minutes to remove moisture and the like from the substrate surface, the substrate was cooled to a temperature of 80.
- the heater of the Knudsen cell is operated to reach a temperature of 900, and the flux of the metal Ga is 6.0 X 10— Adjust to 7 Torr. At this time, the temperature fluctuation of the heat and heat is controlled to be within the range of 0.2 soil, so that the fluctuation of the flux density of the metal Ga is kept within the range of 1%.
- the heat of the Knudsen cell is activated to a temperature of 750, and the flux of the metal In is adjusted to 3.0 by the flux gauge vacuum.
- the temperature of the metal A1 is set to 100 by operating the heater of the Knudsen cell, and the flux of the metal A1 is set to 3.
- the flux density of the metal A 1 is controlled to be within 1% of the soil by controlling to be within the range of 2.
- the temperature of the Knudsen cell is turned on to bring the temperature to 1280, and the flux of the metal Si is set to 5.
- 0 X 1 adjusted to in such a way that 0 _ 9 Torr.
- the temperature fluctuation over the night is controlled to be within ⁇ 0.2 T :, whereby the fluctuation of the flux density of the metal Si is kept within 1% of the soil.
- the shirts of each nude sencel should be closed so that flux can be applied at any time.
- the ammonia gas flow rate, 4 sccm in the lifting flow controller is adjusted to be 6. 0 X 1 0- 6 Tor r a vacuum of flux gage. At this time, by controlling the mass flow controller, the fluctuation of the flux density is kept within 1% of the soil.
- flux dimethylhydrazine made to be 4 X 1 0- 5 Torr in degree of vacuum flux gage to adjust the opening degree of the variable Li one Kubarubu. At this time, the opening of the variable leak valve is controlled to keep the fluctuation of the flux density within 1% of soil.
- the gate valve 1 is opened, and the substrate 4 is transferred from the preparation room A 2 to the growth room A 3 by the transfer rod 5 and set in the substrate heating heater 7.
- the growth chamber A 3 is evacuated, and when the degree of vacuum reaches 1 ⁇ 10 19 Torr, the substrate heater 7 is operated while rotating the substrate at a rotation speed of 10 to 2 O rpm.
- the surface temperature of the substrate 4 is set to 700.
- the substrate 4 is rotated at the above rotation speed until all the operations of crystal growth are completed.
- the natural oxide film present on the surface of the sapphire substrate 4 is removed.
- the metal Ga and dimethylhydrazine are irradiated from the supply means B 1 and the supply means C 2 onto the surface of the substrate 4 to form G a N.
- the membrane was made.
- the flux of the metal G a is 6 X 10- 7 Torr
- flux dimethylhydrazine was set to 4 X 10_ 5 Torr.
- the growth film during this film formation process was observed every moment by RHEED.
- spots indicating GaN crystals began to appear between spot rows indicating surface crystals of the sapphire substrate.
- the operation of GaN crystal growth was stopped when the spot (mirror spot) indicating the surface crystal of the sapphire substrate did not completely disappear, that is, when the RHEED spot on the substrate did not disappear.
- the time required during this time was 5 minutes.
- the RHEED pattern of the formed GaN film was a streak-like spot, and at this point, a spot on the sapphire substrate was also confirmed.
- a GaN single crystal film having a smooth surface is formed on the sapphire substrate 4, and the GaN single crystal film has a thickness on the order of an atom. It was confirmed that.
- the GaN film was repeatedly formed under the above conditions, and each time the RHEED pattern of the grown film was observed, a 2 nm-thick GaN single-crystal film could be formed with good reproducibility.
- a 2 nm-thick GaN single-crystal film could be formed with good reproducibility.
- Metal G a supply means B 1 and dimethylhydrazine supply means C 2 are closed, and the surface temperature of substrate 4 is raised to 850.At that time, ammonia supply means C 1 is opened.
- the substrate surface (the surface of the GaN single crystal film) was irradiated with ammonia.
- the temperature fluctuation of the substrate surface was controlled within ⁇ 0.1 of the set temperature, and the fluctuation of the flux density was suppressed to 1% or less of soil.
- the temperature of the film surface changes. For example, when a non-doped semiconductor is deposited or when an n-type impurity is doped, the film surface temperature shifts to a higher temperature when an n-type semiconductor is deposited. The surface temperature shifts to the low temperature side.
- the above-mentioned temperature change occurs, but the temperature change is observed from the viewing window of the crystal growth apparatus at intervals of 5 minutes using a color thermometer, and the film surface temperature is always constant.
- the temperature set during the growth process is controlled while compensating for the amount of temperature change so that the temperature is maintained.
- the film was composed of a single crystal of GaN, and its surface was very smooth.
- the epitaxy was performed for 2 hours. According to Auger measurement, the thickness of the formed GaN layer was 50 Onm. When the surface of the GaN layer was observed with a Nomarski microscope, no surface defects were observed and the surface was excellent.
- Equipment sample 1 1 0.4 Streak-like pattern of GaN crystal No surface defect, mirror surface Equipment sample 2 3 1.2 Streak-like pattern of 1.2 G a N crystal No surface defect, mirror surface Equipment sample 3 72.8 G a N crystal crystal.
- Polycrystalline link in the form of a dot ') ⁇ ° Turn Many surface defects and surface roughness Equipment sample 4 93.5
- a GaN single crystal film with a thickness of 3 nm or less was formed on a substrate.
- the N-based compound semiconductor layer has a mirror surface with no surface defects despite its thickness of 50 Onm.
- the metal Si is supplied from the metal Si supply means D1. Simultaneous irradiation was performed to form a 3 i-doped GaN layer (n-type layer) with a thickness of 50 0111 11 .
- the metal Mg is simultaneously irradiated from the metal Mg supply means D A doped GaN layer (p-type layer) was formed.
- the RHEED pattern during the film formation process was a streak-like pattern of a GaN crystal, and no surface defects were observed by normalski microscopy.
- the metal In is simultaneously irradiated from the metal In supply means B2 to form the film.
- An InGaN layer having a thickness of 50 Onm was formed.
- the metal A 1 was simultaneously irradiated from the metal A 1 supply means B 3 to form an A 1 GaN layer having a thickness of 50 Onm.
- the RHEED pattern in the film formation process was a streak-like pattern of a GaN crystal, and no surface defects were found according to normalski microscope observation.
- Example 2 Of in the same way as when removing a native oxide film on the sapphire substrate in Example 1, maintains a surface temperature of the base plate 700, here, the metal Ga flux (6.0 X 10- 7 Torr) irradiated for 10 seconds Then, a monomolecular film of metal Ga was formed.
- the metal Ga flux 6.0 X 10- 7 Torr
- GaN was epitaxially grown on the substrate surface for 5 minutes.
- Example 3 A first semiconductor device was manufactured as follows using an Si single crystal substrate as a substrate.
- the Si single crystal substrate with the crystal orientation (11 1) was ultrasonically cleaned with acetone for 15 minutes, then immersed in 100% hydrofluoric acid for 5 minutes, and immediately set in the introduction chamber A1.
- the gate valve (not shown) the introduction chamber A 1 and preparation room A 2 at the time of evacuation by the vacuum degree became 5 X 10- 8 Torr in the open and transport the substrate 4 in the preparation chamber.
- the preparation chamber A 2 further evacuated its vacuum degree is activated the substrate heater evening 6 when it becomes 1 X 10- 9 Torr substrate 4 was heated to 500 and held for 15 minutes at that temperature After removing water and the like from the substrate surface by cooling, the temperature was cooled to 80. Then, the gate valve 1 to open at the time of the degree of vacuum in the growth chamber A 3 to 1 X 10_ 9 Torr, conveys the substrate 4 from the preparation chamber A 2 to the growth chamber A 3 in transfer rod 5 substrate heating heater evening The substrate was set at 7, the surface temperature of the substrate was set to 100 O, and the natural oxide film on the surface was removed.
- one or two monolayers of metal Ga are first formed on the substrate surface, and the monolayer is nitrided with dimethylhydrazine and converted to GaN.
- the grown film in this film forming process was observed by RHEED.
- the RHEED pattern of the grown GaN film was in the form of GaN crystal strike spots. At this point, the spot spot of the safia substrate was also confirmed.
- the GaN film was repeatedly formed under the above conditions, and each time the RHEED pattern of the grown film was observed, a 2 nm- thick GaN single crystal film was formed with good reproducibility. Was completed.
- GaN, Si-doped GaN, Mg-doped GaN, InGaN, and A1GaN were formed on this GaN single crystal film. Each was grown epitaxially.
- a first semiconductor device using a GaAs single crystal substrate as a substrate was manufactured as follows.
- Indoor growth chamber A 3 As: in the atmosphere of 1 X 10- 6 Torr, the surface temperature of the set Bok been board to the substrate heating heater evening 7 to 620, to remove the natural oxide film on the surface.
- the surface temperature of the substrate 4 was cooled down to 580, the flux of metal Ga (1. 5 X 10- 7 Torr ) and A s of the flux ( 1. thickness by irradiating 5X 10- 6 Torr) at the same time the substrate surface was formed a smooth G a as film of about 5 onm.
- the RH EED pattern shows a stabilized surface structure of Ga (a structure (1 X 1) where the top surface of the crystal is uniformly covered with Ga), and the substrate surface is Ga-rich. It was confirmed that it was in the state of.
- the first semiconductor device using a GaAs single crystal substrate as the substrate is as follows. Manufactured.
- the flux of the metal Ga (1. 5 X 1 0- 7 Torr) and the P flux (1.5 ⁇ 10 6 Torr) was simultaneously applied to the substrate surface to form a smooth GaP film having a thickness of about 5 Onm.
- the irradiation of the flux of the metal Ga was stopped, the surface temperature of the substrate 4 was raised to 60, and the surface of the substrate 4 was observed by RHEED.
- the RH EED pattern shows a stabilized structure surface structure of Ga (a structure (1 X 1) in which the top surface of the crystal is uniformly covered with Ga), and the substrate surface has a G surface. a It was confirmed that the state was rich.
- a second semiconductor device was manufactured as follows.
- the Si crystal substrate having the crystal orientation (1 1 1) was ultrasonically cleaned with acetone for 15 minutes, then immersed in 100% hydrofluoric acid for 5 minutes, and then immediately introduced into the introduction chamber A1.
- the substrate was conveyed at a transformer Sulfur rod 5 in a preparatory chamber A 2, and set Bok to the substrate holder.
- the substrate 4 was heated to 500 by the heater 6 and held for 30 minutes. Thereafter, the temperature was lowered to 100.
- the substrate heater evening 7 After the interior of the growth chamber A 3 by operating the diffusion pump 3 in an ultra high vacuum 1 X 10- 9 Torr, the substrate heater evening 7, temperature 65 ot the substrate 4 at a heating rate of 5 Ot min: up to Heated.
- the substrate heating heater 7 heats the substrate 4 at a heating temperature of 25: / min, and when the temperature of the substrate 4 reaches 850, the metal Ga supply means B 1 shirt In the evening, a flux of metal Ga (6. OX 10 " 7 Torr) was irradiated onto the surface of the substrate 4 to form a monolayer of metal Ga on the surface of the substrate.
- the supply means B1 was closed, and the ammonia was supplied from the ammonia supply means C1 to nitride the metal Ga monomolecular film.
- M_ ⁇ MBE supplies trimethyl Chirugariumu supply means B 4 of trimethylgallium opened to a vacuum degree of 5 X 10- 7 Torr flux gage The crystal was grown for 2 hours by the method.
- the crystal showed a streak-like pattern. Therefore, it was confirmed that the GaN crystal was a single crystal and the surface was smooth.
- the thickness of the crystal film was about 50 Omn, and the surface was observed with a Nomarski microscope.
- the substrate is any one of a sapphire substrate, a Si single crystal substrate, a GaAs single crystal substrate and a A high-quality nitride-based ill-V compound semiconductor layer having excellent crystallinity, in particular, a GaN-based compound semiconductor layer is formed.
- the present invention makes it possible to manufacture a semiconductor device having a high-quality GaN crystal layer, and can manufacture a blue light-emitting element and an electronic device that can operate at high temperature and high pressure. It exerts tremendous effects in fields such as communications.
- the GaN single crystal film as the buffer layer is extremely thin, 3 nm or less, the time required for forming the film is short, and the manufacturing cost of the entire apparatus is reduced in the case of the conventional amorphous buffer layer. Can be significantly reduced.
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