Semiconductor devices and fin field effect transistors (FinFETs) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a representative semiconductor device includes a group III material over a substrate, the group III material comprising a thickness of about 2 monolayers or less, and a group III-V material over the group III material.

A method for forming a semiconductor device includes depositing an epitaxial layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming an oxygen diffusion region within the epitaxial layer by oxygen diffusion from the semiconductor substrate into a part of the epitaxial layer and tempering at least the oxygen diffusion region of the epitaxial layer at a temperature between 400° C. and 480° C. for more than 15 minutes.

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel technique capable of manufacturing a large-diameter semiconductor substrate.

The present invention is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate including a crystal growth step S30 of forming a growth layer 20 on an underlying substrate 10 having through holes 11. In addition, the present invention is a method for forming a growth layer 20 including the through hole formation step S10 of forming through holes 11 in the underlying substrate 10 before forming the growth layer 20 on a surface of the underlying substrate 10.

The problem to addressed by the present invention is that of providing a novel technique that can remove a strained layer introduced into a silicon carbide substrate by laser processing. The present silicon carbide substrate manufacturing method involves a processing step for performing laser processing to remove part of a silicon carbide substrate by irradiating the silicon carbide substrate with a laser, and a strained layer removal step for removing a strained layer that was introduced in the silicon carbide substrate by the aforementioned processing step involving heat treatment of the silicon carbide substrate. In this way, the present invention, which is a method of removing a strained layer introduced into a silicon carbide substrate by laser processing, involves a strained layer removal step for heat treating the silicon carbide substrate.

Systems and method are provided for depositing metal on GaN transistors after gate formation using a metal nitride Schottky gate. Embodiments of the present disclosure use a “diamond last” process using thermally stable metal nitride gate electrodes to enable thicker heat spreading films and facilitate process integration. In an embodiment, the “diamond last” process with high thermal conductivity diamond is enabled by the integration of thermally stable metal-nitride gate electrodes.

A semiconductor rectifying device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor rectifying device includes: a substrate of a first conductivity type (100), an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type (200) formed on the substrate of the first conductivity type (100), wherein the epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type (200) defines a plurality of trenches (310) thereon; a filling structure (300) comprising an insulating material formed on the inner surface of the trench (310) and a conductive material filled in the trench (310); a doped region of a second conductivity type (400) formed in the surface of the epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type (200) located between the filling structures (300); an upper electrode (600) formed on a surface of the epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type (200); a guard ring (700) formed in the surface layer of the epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type (200); and a guard layer (800).

The present invention relates to a method for assembling molecules on the surface of a two-dimensional material formed on a substrate, the method comprises: forming a spacer layer comprising at least one of an electrically insulating compound or a semiconductor compound on the surface of the two-dimensional material, depositing molecules on the spacer layer, annealing the substrate with spacer layer and the molecules at an elevated temperature for an annealing time duration, wherein the temperature and annealing time are such that at least a portion of the molecules are allowed to diffuse through the spacer layer towards the surface of the two-dimensional material to assemble on the surface of the two-dimensional material. The invention also relates to an electronic device.

A method for manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer according to one aspect of the present invention includes separately introducing, into a reaction space for SiC epitaxial growth, a basic N-based gas composed of molecules containing an N atom within the molecular structure but having neither a double bond nor a triple bond between nitrogen atoms, and a Cl-based gas composed of molecules containing a Cl atom within the molecular structure, and mixing the N-based gas and the Cl-based gas at a temperature equal to or higher than the boiling point or sublimation temperature of a solid product generated by mixing the N-based gas and the Cl-based gas.

A composite substrate of the present disclosure is composed of two parts: a SiC substrate; and a Si-containing thermal-sprayed layer made of a material obtained by melting Si or a Si alloy through thermal spraying. The Si-containing thermal-sprayed layer serves as a support substrate for supporting the SiC substrate so as to keep the mechanical strength thereof, and is provided at one surface of the SiC substrate on the side opposite to a surface where a nitride semiconductor layer composed of layers made of nitride semiconductors such as an AlN buffer layer, a GaN buffer layer, and an AlGaN Schottky layer is formed through epitaxial growth.

A crystal growth apparatus includes: a chamber including a gas inlet, a gas outlet, a welded portion, and a water-cooling portion configured to water-cool a portion at least including the welded portion; an exhaust pump connected to the gas outlet; a dew point instrument disposed between the gas outlet and the exhaust pump, the dew point instrument being configured to measure a dew point of gas passing through the gas outlet.