IP Library Granted Patent US 12684846
Granted Patent B2
US 12684846 · App. 18/617,821 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Multilayered substrate

Inventor: Yoshinobu Narita (Hitachi, JP)
Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
H10D62/8503C30B25/20C30B29/406
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Patent No.
US 12684846
App. No.
18/617,821
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A multilayered substrate comprises: an underlying substrate; and a gallium nitride layer epitaxially grown above the underlying substrate and comprising gallium nitride doped with silicon; the gallium nitride layer having a top surface with a radius of 50 mm or more, the gallium nitride layer having a thickness of 4 μm or more, wherein a silicon concentration in the top surface of the gallium nitride layer has a distribution in which an outer circumferential silicon concentration at a radial position 10 mm from an edge of the top surface is higher than a central silicon concentration at a center of the top surface, the central silicon concentration is 4×10 15 cm −3 or more and less than 2×10 16 cm −3 , and a carbon concentration in the top surface of the gallium nitride layer has a distribution in which an outer circumferential carbon concentration at a radial position 10 mm from an edge of the top surface is higher than a central carbon concentration at a center of the top surface.

Claims (12)

1 . A multilayered substrate, comprising:

an underlying substrate; and

a gallium nitride layer epitaxially grown above the underlying substrate and comprising gallium nitride doped with silicon;

the gallium nitride layer having a top surface with a radius of 50 mm or more,

the gallium nitride layer having a thickness of 4 m or more,

wherein a silicon concentration in the top surface of the gallium nitride layer has a distribution in which an outer circumferential silicon concentration at a radial position 10 mm from an edge of the top surface is higher than a central silicon concentration at a center of the top surface,

the central silicon concentration is 4×10 15 cm −3 or more and less than 2×10 16 cm −3 , and

a carbon concentration in the top surface of the gallium nitride layer has a distribution in which an outer circumferential carbon concentration at a radial position 10 mm from an edge of the top surface is higher than a central carbon concentration at a center of the top surface.

2 . The multilayered substrate according to claim 1 , wherein in the gallium nitride layer, at a predetermined depth position from the top surface at a radial position of 10 mm from the edge of the top surface, there is a region where a carbon concentration is lower than the outer circumferential carbon concentration in the top surface.

3 . The multilayered substrate according to claim 1 , wherein in the gallium nitride layer, at a predetermined depth position from the top surface at a radial position of 10 mm from an edge of the top surface, there is a region where a silicon concentration is lower than the outer circumferential silicon concentration in the top surface.

4 . The multilayered substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the silicon concentration in the top surface of the gallium nitride layer has a distribution in which an intermediate silicon concentration at a radial position 30 mm from a center of the top surface is higher than the central silicon concentration and lower than the outer circumferential silicon concentration.

5 . The multilayered substrate according to claim 1 , wherein a carbon concentration in the top surface of the gallium nitride layer has a distribution in which an intermediate carbon concentration at a radial position 30 mm from a center of the top surface is higher than the central carbon concentration and lower than the outer circumferential carbon concentration.