IP Library Granted Patent US 7,312,480
Granted Patent B2
US 7,312,480 · App. 11/175,310 · Granted Dec 25, 2007

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.; Tottori Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,312,480
App. No.
11/175,310
Granted
Dec 25, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A first buffer layer is formed on a substrate at a lower temperature than a single-crystal-growth-temperature, one or more of a layer composed of a nitride containing neither Ga nor In, a layer which has two or more thin films having different moduli of elasticity cyclically laminated therein, and a layer having an Al composition ratio which decreases and a Ga composition ratio which increases in a direction from the first buffer layer to a device-constituting layer are formed as a second buffer layer on the first buffer layer at the single-crystal-growth-temperature, and a device-constituting layer composed of a nitride semiconductor is formed on the second buffer layer.

Claims (9)

1. A semiconductor device comprising in the following order:

a substrate;

a first buffer layer composed of a multi-layer film;

a second buffer layer in an approximately single crystalline state composed of a nitride containing neither Ga nor In; and

a device-constituting layer composed of a nitride semiconductor,

wherein each of the layers of said first buffer layer is in a non-single crystalline state.

2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein said second buffer layer is composed of A 1-x B x N (0≦x≦1).

3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein said first buffer layer is formed of a multi-layer film composed of a nitride containing at least one of Al, Ga, In, B and Tl, SiC or ZnO.

4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein said first buffer layer is composed of a multi-layer film composed of AlN, AlGaN, GaN, GaInN, AlGaInN, SiC or ZnO.

Assignments (6)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 20, 2017
From: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
To: EPISTAR CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 041652/0122 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2016
From: FUTURE LIGHT LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
To: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 040523/0797 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2013
From: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
To: FUTURE LIGHT, LLC
Reel/Frame 029730/0704 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 31, 2013
From: TOTTORI SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
To: SANYO CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 029732/0366 →
MERGER Recorded Jan 31, 2013
From: SANYO CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
To: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 029732/0460 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 30, 2012
From: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
To: FUTURE LIGHT, LLC
Reel/Frame 027957/0258 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 10-300996 · Oct 22, 1998 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 0942573100 · Oct 22, 1999
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