The present invention is related to a method of providing n-doped group III-V materials grown on (111) Si, and especially to a method comprising steps of growth of group III-V materials interleaved with steps of no growth, wherein both growth steps and no growth steps are subject to a constant uninterrupted arsenic flux concentration.

A method of manufacturing a SiC single crystal includes: a storing step of storing a SiC source, which is a powder, in an inner bottom part of a crucible, wherein the crucible is configured to store the SiC source and to attach a seed crystal to a position of the crucible which faces the SiC source; a placing step of placing a porous material on at least a portion of a first surface of the SiC source, wherein the first surface is positioned on a side of the seed crystal; and a crystal growth step of sublimating the SiC source by heating to grow a crystal on the seed crystal, in which the porous material is formed of carbon or a carbide, and the hole diameter of the porous material is smaller than the average particle diameter of the SiC source.

A silicon carbide ingot manufacturing method and a silicon carbide ingot manufacturing system are provided. The silicon carbide ingot manufacturing method and the silicon carbide ingot manufacturing system may change a temperature gradient depending on the growth of an ingot by implementing a guide which has a tilted angle to an external direction from the interior of a reactor, in an operation to grow an ingot during a silicon carbide ingot manufacturing process.

A silicon carbide ingot manufacturing method and a silicon carbide ingot manufacturing system are provided. The silicon carbide ingot manufacturing method and the silicon carbide ingot manufacturing system may change a temperature gradient depending on the growth of an ingot by implementing a guide which has a tilted angle to an external direction from the interior of a reactor, in an operation to grow an ingot during a silicon carbide ingot manufacturing process.

A high-purity semi-insulating silicon carbide crystal growing apparatus and a method therefor are provided, the apparatus comprising a growth crucible, a bottom part of the growth crucible having inserted a gas pipe, a top part of the growth crucible being provided with a growth crucible cover, a feedstock crucible having a bowl-shaped structure being disposed in the growth crucible, an upper part of the feedstock crucible being provided with a baffle, a bottom part of the feedstock crucible being provided with a ring-shaped supporting feedstock crucible bottom foot, the diameter of the feedstock crucible bottom foot being ⅛ the diameter of the feedstock crucible, and the feedstock crucible bottom foot having disposed thereon 8-36 evenly distributed gas holes.

A physical vapor transport growth system includes a growth chamber charged with SiC source material and a SiC seed crystal in spaced relation and an envelope that is at least partially gas-permeable disposed in the growth chamber. The envelope separates the growth chamber into a source compartment that includes the SiC source material and a crystallization compartment that includes the SiC seed crystal. The envelope is formed of a material that is reactive to vapor generated during sublimation growth of a SiC single crystal on the SiC seed crystal in the crystallization compartment to produce C-bearing vapor that acts as an additional source of C during the growth of the SiC single crystal on the SiC seed crystal.

The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for crystal growth. The method for crystal growth may include: placing a seed crystal and a target source material in a growth chamber of an apparatus for crystal growth; executing a growth of a crystal based on the seed crystal and the target source material according to physical vapor transport; determining whether a preset condition is satisfied during the crystal growth process; and in response to determining that the preset condition is satisfied, replacing a sublimated target source material with a candidate source material. In the present disclosure, by replacing the sublimated target source material with the candidate source material, a crystal with large-size and high-quality can be grown.

A method of growing a semi-insulating SiC single crystal ingot, the method comprising the steps of: (1) placing a dopant coated with silicon carbide (SiC) and a carbon-based material into a reaction vessel containing a seed crystal fixed thereto; and (2) growing a SiC single crystal on the seed crystal, thereby yielding a high-quality semi-insulating SiC single crystal ingot with a uniform thickness-based doping concentration. In addition, another embodiment relates to a method of growing a semi-insulating silicon carbide single crystal ingot, the method comprising the steps of: (a) placing in a reaction vessel, a composition comprising a carbon-containing polymer resin, a solvent, a dopant, and silicon carbide (SiC); (b) solidifying the composition; and (c) growing a SiC single crystal ingot on a seed crystal fixed to the reaction vessel, thereby yielding a high-quality semi-insulating SiC single crystal ingot with a uniform thickness-based doping concentration.

A device for measuring a matter flux, including: at least one first light source to emit a first light beam having a measurement wavelength corresponding to the absorption wavelength of an element of interest of the matter flux; an optical connector; and a light sensor to receive, via the optical connector: an attenuated beam resulting from a transmission of the first light beam through the matter flux; and a non-attenuated beam resulting from a transmission of the first light beam without passing through the matter flux. The light sensor is one-dimensional and the optical connector is positioned relative to the light sensor so that the center of the optical connector is aligned with the center of the light sensor, the non-attenuated beam is spectrally directed towards a first part of the light sensor and the attenuated beam is spectrally directed towards a second part of the light sensor.

A method for producing a silicon carbide single crystal according to the present invention is a method for producing a silicon carbide single crystal in which a single crystal of silicon carbide is grown on a silicon carbide seed crystal by using a guide member, the method comprising: a single crystal growth step of growing a silicon carbide single crystal in a manner so as to not close a gap between a side surface of the silicon carbide single crystal growing on the silicon carbide seed crystal, and an inner-side surface of the guide member and a crystal deposited on the inner-side surface of the guide member; a crystal growth termination step of terminating crystal growth by lowering the temperature; and a gap enlargement step, performed between the single crystal growth step and the crystal growth termination step, of enlarging the gap by maintaining a difference, Pin-Pout, between a partial pressure Pin of Si.sub.2C in a source gas in the vicinity of an inlet of the gap and a partial pressure Pout of Si.sub.2C in a source gas in the vicinity of an outlet of the gap at 0.18 torr or less.