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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
257 17 ; 257 20 ; 257197 ; 257192 ; 257623 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor crystalline substrate having projections each thereof having an area of 0.01 .mu.m.sup.2 to 4 .mu.m.sup.2 or stripe projections each thereof having a width of 0.01 .mu.m to 1 .mu.m and semiconductor crystalline layers formed on the projections, each of the layers having lattice constants different from those of the semiconductor crystalline substrate preferably by 0.5% or more. The semiconductor device is free of dislocations and thermally stable. The semiconductor device can be fabricated by performing such processes as forming projections on the substrate and forming semiconductor crystalline layers on the projections by molecular beam epitaxy.