Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Kazunori Kamada

Yutaka Mikawa

Hideo Fujisawa

Hirotaka Ikeda

Yusuke Tsukada

Shuichi Kubo

Satoru Nagao

Kenji Fujito

Tae Mochizuki

Shinichiro Kawabata

Yuji Kagamitani

Hirobumi Nagaoka

Hideo Namita

Atsuhiko Kojima

Hajime Matsumoto

Tatsuhiro Ohata

Masayuki Tashiro

Tetsuharu Kajimoto

Takashi Fukada

An object is to provide a nonpolar or semipolar GaN substrate having improved size and crystal quality. A self-standing GaN substrate has an angle between the normal of the principal surface and an m-axis of 0 degrees or more and 20 degrees or less, wherein: the size of the projected image in a c-axis direction when the principal surface is vertically projected on an M-plane is 10 mm or more; and when an a-axis length is measured on an intersection line between the principal surface and an A-plane, a low distortion section with a section length of 6 mm or more and with an a-axis length variation within the section of 10.0×10Å or less is observed.

Self-standing GaN substrate, GaN crystal, method for producing GaN single crystal, and method for producing semiconductor device

A gallium nitride substrate comprising a first main surface and a second main surface opposite thereto, wherein the first main surface is a non-polar or semi-polar plane, a dislocation density measured by a room-temperature cathode luminescence method in the first main surface is 1&#xd7;10cmor less, and an averaged dislocation density measured by a room-temperature cathode luminescence method in an optional square region sizing 250 &#x3bc;m&#xd7;250 &#x3bc;m in the first main plan is 1&#xd7;10cmor less.

Gallium nitride substrate and manufacturing method of nitride semiconductor crystal

An object is to provide a nonpolar or semipolar GaN substrate having improved size and crystal quality. A self-standing GaN substrate has an angle between the normal of the principal surface and an m-axis of 0 degrees or more and 20 degrees or less, wherein: the size of the projected image in a c-axis direction when the principal surface is vertically projected on an M-plane is 10 mm or more; and when an a-axis length is measured on an intersection line between the principal surface and an A-plane, a low distortion section with a section length of 6 mm or more and with an a-axis length variation within the section of 10.0&#xd7;10&#x212b; or less is observed.

A high-quality nitride crystal can be produced efficiently by charging a nitride crystal starting material that contains tertiary particles having a maximum diameter of from 1 to 120 mm and formed through aggregation of secondary particles having a maximum diameter of from 100 to 1000 &#x3bc;m, in the starting material charging region of a reactor, followed by crystal growth in the presence of a solvent in a supercritical state and/or a subcritical state in the reactor, wherein the nitride crystal starting material is charged in the starting material charging region in a bulk density of from 0.7 to 4.5 g/cmfor the intended crystal growth.

Method for producing nitride crystal and nitride crystal

An object of the present invention is to provide a crystal of a nitride of a Group-13 metal on the Periodic Table which has good crystallinity and has no crystal strain, and to provide a production method for the crystal. The crystal of a nitride of a Group-13 metal on the Periodic Table of the present invention, comprises oxygen atom and hydrogen atom in the crystal and has a ratio of a hydrogen concentration to an oxygen concentration therein of from 0.5 to 4.5.

Crystal of nitride of group-13 metal on periodic table, and method for producing the same

The main purpose of the present invention is to provide: a nonpolar or semipolar GaN substrate, in which a nitride semiconductor crystal having a low stacking fault density can be epitaxially grown on the main surface of the substrate, and a technique required for the production of the substrate. This invention provides: a method for manufacturing an M-plane GaN substrate comprising;

A disc-like GaN substrate is a substrate produced by a tiling method and having an angel between the normal line and m-axis on the main surface of the substrate of 0 to 20&#xb0; inclusive and a diameter of 45 to 55 mm, to 4 or less. In a preferred embodiment, a disc-like GaN substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface that is opposite to the first main surface, and which has an angle between the normal line and m-axis on the first main surface of 0 to 20&#xb0; inclusive and a diameter of 45 mm or more. The disc-like GaN substrate comprises at least four crystalline regions each being exposed to both of the first main surface and the second main surface, wherein the four crystalline regions are arranged in line along the direction of the orthogonal projection of c-axis on the first main surface.

GaN substrate, method for producing GaN substrate, method for producing GaN crystal, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device

The invention provides a nonpolar or semipolar GaN substrate, in which a nitride semiconductor crystal having a low stacking fault density can be epitaxially grown on the main surface of the substrate, and a method for manufacturing an M-plane GaN substrate by forming a mask pattern having a line-shaped opening parallel to an a-axis of a C-plane GaN substrate on an N-polar plane of the C-plane GaN substrate, growing a plane-shape GaN crystal of which thickness direction is an m-axis direction from the opening of the mask pattern by an ammonothermal method, and cutting out the M-plane GaN substrate from the plane-shape GaN crystal.

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Ushiku, Japan

Kazunori Kamada