Growth of doped semiconductor monolayers

Abstract

A cycle of alternately or cyclically introducing external gases containing molecules of component elements of a compound semiconductor to be formed on a substrate is repeated while appropriately controlling the pressure, substrate temperature and gas introduction rate in a crystal growth vessel, so that a monocrystal which is dimensionally as precise as a single monolayer can grow on the substrate by making use of chemical reactions on the heated substrate surface. Doped molecular layer epitaxy of a compound semiconductor comprising individual steps of introducing and evacuating a first source gas, introducing and evacuating a second source gas, and introducing and evacuating an impurity gas which contains an impurity element. The doped impurity concentration varies almost linearly with the pressure during doping in a wide range.