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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor laser, in which the adhesiveness is improved, deterioration at the end face part is suppressed, operation current increases extremely little during energization, and the life is significantly improved, when an end face coat film is formed on an edge face of a resonator formed by processing a nitride III-V compound semiconductor. SOLUTION: In the semiconductor laser using the nitride III-V compound semiconductor, the end face coat film 20 is formed in the edge face 18 of the resonator formed by cleavage etc. via an adhesion layer. The adhesion layer is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, Zr, Hf, Ta, Zn and Si, or a substance containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, Zr, Hf, Ta, Zn and Si, and oxygen and/or nitrogen, for example, AlO x film etc. The lowest layer of the end face coat film 20 is the Al 2 O 3 film. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor laser whose electrostatic capacity between a pad electrode and an electrode opposed to it is little, has a good high frequency characteristic, and can prevent a defect caused by current leakage and electrostatic breakage, and to provide its mounting method. SOLUTION: Notches 9, 10 are formed on the upside of a second clad layer 6 and on a contact layer 7, and a ridge 8 is formed between them. An electrode 12 is formed on the ridge 8. An insulating film 11 is formed on the side of the ridge 8, the inside of the notches 9, 10, and the contact layer 7 of the outside portion of the notches 9, 10. The thickness of the insulating film 11 of a portion on the contact layer 7 on the outside portion of the notch 9, 10 is larger than at least the thickness of the electrode 12. Moreover, a pad electrode 13 is formed so as to cover the electrode 12 and extended on the insulating film 11 on the outside portion of the notches 9, 12. The upside of the upper of the outside of the notches 9, 10 in the pad electrode 13 is positioned higher than the upside of the upper portion of the ridge 8. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor laser with an excellent far field pattern and excellent light-harvesting of a laser beam by suppressing production of spikes in the far field pattern in a vertical direction of an active layer. SOLUTION: The semiconductor laser comprises a semiconductor substrate 1 transparent to light with an oscillating wavelength λ, a background semiconductor layer 2 transparent to the light with the oscillating wavelength λ and formed on the semiconductor layer 1, a first clad layer 5 on the background semiconductor layer 2, the active layer 8 on the first clad layer 5, and a second clad layer 13 on the active layer 8. At least one semiconductor conductor layer 3 satisfying a relation of nt=(1/4)λ (wherein n is a refractive index, and t is a thickness) is provided between the first clad layer 5 and the semiconductor substrate 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor light-emitting device where an initial deterioration rate is small, a long life is achieved, aging and irregularity in light emission are extremely small, and a nitride-based group III-V compound semiconductor is used. SOLUTION: In the semiconductor light-emitting device using the nitride-based group III-V compound semiconductor, a first nitride-based group III-V compound semiconductor containing In and Ga, for example, an active layer 7 made of InGaN, a second nitride-based group III-V compound semiconductor containing In and Ga that are different from the first nitride-based group III-V compound semiconductor, for example, a middle layer 8 made of InGaN, and a third nitride-based group III-V compound semiconductor containing Al and Ga, for example, a cap layer 8 made of p-type AlGaN are successively allowed to contact one another for laminating.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily activate an impurity at a target of a semiconductor with a high activation rate and satisfactory uniformity. SOLUTION: At the time of activating impurity by irradiating a semiconductor, to which impurity is doped, for example, a GaN nitride 3-5 compound semiconductor to which p-type impurity such as Mg is doped, with lights, especially, laser beams. Photor energy for which the absorption coefficient of semiconductor can be set as α=1/d, where (d) is the thickness of the semiconductor whose is to be activated impurity is defined as a measured band gap Eg-real of the semiconductor, and light beams with photon energy within the range of Eg-real ±0.5 eV are used. In this case, the temperature of the substrate may be changed while the semiconductor is irradiated with the light beams. This method for activating impurity can be used for forming a p-type layer at the time of manufacturing a GaN semiconductor with laser.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a method for growing a III-V nitride compound semiconductor having high crystallinity by increasing nitrogen materials contributing to growth. SOLUTION: A material gas, including ammonia gas being the material of nitrogen and carrier gas, is supplied inside of a reaction tube 3. The flow of the material gas inside the reaction tube 3 is set in a direction, parallel to the growth surface of a substrate 14, and the velocity of flow of the material gas inside the reaction tube 3 is set at 2 m/s or less. Thus, ammonia can be fully heated by the delay amount of the velocity of flow, and decomposing efficiency can be improved, and the supply of the nitrogen material to the growth surface of the substrate 14 can be increased, and the evaporation of nitrogen from the III-V nitride compound semiconductor during growth can be suppressed. Also, it is desirable that the inside the reaction tube 3 be pressurized.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance planarity of the edge of a resonator while facilitating fabrication. SOLUTION: An underlying layer 3 of GaN is formed on a sapphire substrate 1 through a buffer layer 2 before growing a coating layer 5 of GaN through a mask layer 4 having an opening 4a extended in the direction of the underlying layer 3. An n-type clad layer 7 of III nitride compound conductor, an active layer 9, and a p-type clad layer 11 are formed thereon. Direction B of a resonator is set in the direction of the underlying layer 3 and differentiated by 90 deg. from the extending direction A of mask opening and a pair of resonator edges 16, 17 are formed in the direction B of the resonator. Consequently, an emission region is not required to be aligned with the mask layer 4. Furthermore, planarity can be enhanced easily because the resonator edges 16, 17 located in the direction B of the resonator can be formed by cleavage.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device suitable using a semiconductor laser, which has good characteristics and has a high efficiency and a long life, by a method wherein a semiconductor substrate is formed of a III-V nitride compound semiconductor layer having a wurtzite structure crystal structure and is formed using a plane vertical to the face 0001} as its main surface. SOLUTION: An n-type GaN contact layer 2, an n-type AlGaN clad layer 3, an active layer 4 consisting of an n-type low-impurity concentration or undoped GaInN layer, for example, a p-type AlGaN layer 5 and a p-type GaN contact layer 6 are laminated in order on an undoped GaN substrate 1 using the face (M face) 01-10} as its main surface. By cleaving the substrate 1 along the face 0001}, a III-V nitride compound semiconductor layer on the substrate 1 is cleaved along that face 0001} to form a resonator end surface. As a result, this resonator end surface becomes a flat mirror surface. Thereby, the resonator end surface, which is high in reflectivity, therefore, is low in reflection loss and is optically excellent, can be obtained.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a specific high-quality semiconductor substrate which has no rough surface nor crack, having an excellent cryetallinity with high productivity by providing a process for growing a specific semiconductor layer on a substrate at a growth rate lower than a specific growth rate and another process for growing a specific semiconductor layer on the semiconductor layer at the specific growth rate. SOLUTION: A method for growing nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor layer includes a process for growing a first Bw Alx Gay Inz N layer 2 (where, 0
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PURPOSE:To provide an apparatus for growing a crystal by molecular beams capable of effectively preventing contamination of the surface of a compd. semiconductor substrate formed with a compd. semiconductor crystal layer by the undesirable molecular beams from a molecular beam cell and growing the crystal of the compd. semiconductor in the state of maintaining the clean surface. CONSTITUTION:This apparatus for growing the crystal by molecular beams includes (a) a molecular beam source chamber 20, (b) a film forming chamber 30 and (c) a moving type shielding device 40 which partitions the molecular beam source chamber 20 and the film forming chamber 30. The moving type shielding device 40 is preferably constituted of, for example, a gate valve. Further, the molecular beam source chamber 20 and the film forming chamber 30 are respectively preferably provided with vacuum pumps.