Patents by Inventor Yuuki ENATSU
Yuuki ENATSU has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230203711Abstract: Provided are: a GaN crystal used in a substrate for a nitride semiconductor device having a horizontal device structure, such as a GaN-HEMT; and a GaN substrate used for the production of a nitride semiconductor device having a horizontal device structure, such as a GaN-HEMT. The GaN crystal and the GaN substrate each include a surface having an inclination of 10° or less from a (0001) crystal plane and an area of 5 cm2 or more, and have an Mn concentration of 1.0 × 1016 atoms/cm3 or higher but lower than 1.0 × 1019 atoms/cm3 and a total donor impurity concentration of lower than 5.0 × 1016 atoms/cm3.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicants: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Yusuke TSUKADA, Yuichi Oshima, Yuuki Enatsu
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Patent number: 11588096Abstract: An optoelectronic or electronic device structure, including an active region on or above a polar substrate, wherein the active region comprises a polar p region. The device structure further includes a hole supply region on or above the active region. Holes in the hole supply region are driven by a field into the active region, the field arising at least in part due to a piezoelectric and/or spontaneous polarization field generated by a composition and grading of the active region.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Yuuki Enatsu, Chirag Gupta, Stacia Keller, Umesh K. Mishra, Anchal Agarwal
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Publication number: 20220084820Abstract: Provided is a GaN substrate wafer with an improved productivity, which can be preferably used in the production of a nitride semiconductor device having a horizontal device structure. The GaN substrate wafer is a (0001)-oriented GaN substrate wafer that includes a first region arranged on an N-polar side and a second region, which is arranged on a Ga-polar side and has a minimum thickness, via a regrowth interface therebetween. In this GaN substrate wafer, the second region has a minimum thickness of not less than 20 ?m, and at least a portion of the second region has a total compensating impurity concentration of 1×1017 atoms/cm3 or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuki ENATSU, Kenji ISO
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Publication number: 20220084819Abstract: Provided are: a GaN substrate wafer having a crystallinity suitable as a substrate for a semiconductor device as well as an improved productivity; and a method of producing the same. The GaN substrate wafer is a (0001)-oriented GaN substrate wafer that includes a first region arranged on an N-polar side and a second region arranged on a Ga-polar side via a regrowth interface therebetween. In this GaN substrate wafer, the second region has a minimum thickness of not less than 20 ?m, the concentration of at least one element selected from Li, Na, K, F, Cl, Br, and I in the first region is 1×1015 atoms/cm3 or higher, and the second region satisfies one or more conditions selected from the following (a) to (c): (a) the Si concentration is 5×1016 atoms/cm3 or higher; (b) the O concentration is 3×1016 atoms/cm3 or lower; and (c) the H concentration is 1×1017 atoms/cm3 or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji ISO, Yuuki ENATSU, Kenji SHIMOYAMA
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Publication number: 20210384336Abstract: Provided are a GaN crystal used in a substrate for a nitride semiconductor device having a horizontal device structure such as GaN-HEMT, and a substrate used for production of a nitride semiconductor device having a horizontal device structure such as GaN-HEMT. The Gab crystal has a (0001) surface having an area of not less than 5 cm2, the (0001) surface having an inclination of not more than 10° with respect to the (0001) crystal plane, wherein the Fe concentration is not less than 5×1017 atoms/cm3 and less than 1×109 atoms/cm3, and wherein the total donor impurity concentration is less than 5×1016 atoms/cm3.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicants: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Yuuki ENATSU, Yuichi OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20210164127Abstract: Provided is an n-type GaN crystal, in which a donor impurity contained at the highest concentration is Ge, and which has a room-temperature resistivity of lower than 0.03 ?·cm and a (004) XRD rocking curve FWHM of less than 20 arcsec. The n-type GaN crystal has two main surfaces, each having an area of 2 cm2 or larger. One of the two main surfaces can have a Ga polarity and can be inclined at an angle of 0° to 10° with respect to a (0001) crystal plane. Further, the n-type GaN crystal can have a diameter of 20 mm or larger.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji ISO, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Tae MOCHIZUKI, Yuuki ENATSU
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Patent number: 10570530Abstract: A periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystals grown with a non-polar or semi-polar principal surface have numerous stacking faults. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a period table Group 13 metal nitride crystal wherein the occurrence of stacking faults of this kind are suppressed. The present invention achieves the foregoing by a periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal being characterized in that, in a Qx direction intensity profile that includes a maximum intensity and is derived from an isointensity contour plot obtained by x-ray reciprocal lattice mapping of (100) plane of the periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal, a Qx width at 1/300th of peak intensity is 6×10?4 rlu or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Yuuki Enatsu, Satoru Nagao, Shuichi Kubo, Hirotaka Ikeda, Kenji Fujito
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Publication number: 20190181329Abstract: An optoelectronic or electronic device structure, including an active region on or above a polar substrate, wherein the active region comprises a polar p region. The device structure further includes a hole supply region on or above the active region. Holes in the hole supply region are driven by a field into the active region, the field arising at least in part due to a piezoelectric and/or spontaneous polarization field generated by a composition and grading of the active region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Yuuki Enatsu, Chirag Gupta, Stacia Keller, Umesh K. Mishra, Anchal Agarwal
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Patent number: 10224201Abstract: Provides is a C-plane GaN substrate which, although formed from a GaN crystal grown so that surface pits are generated, is free from any inversion domain, and moreover, has a low spiral dislocation density in a gallium polar surface. Provides is a C-plane GaN substrate wherein: the substrate comprises a plurality of facet growth areas each having a closed ring outline-shape on a gallium polar surface; the spiral dislocation density is less than 1×106 cm?2 anywhere on the gallium polar surface; and the substrate is free from any inversion domain. The C-plane GaN substrate may comprise a high dislocation density part having a dislocation density of more than 1×107 cm?2 and a low dislocation density part having a dislocation density of less than 1×106 cm?2 on the gallium polar surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Iso, Yuuki Enatsu, Hiromitsu Kimura
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Patent number: 10177217Abstract: A C-plane GaN substrate only mildly restricts the shape and dimension of a nitride semiconductor device formed on the substrate. The variation of an off-angle on the main surface of the substrate is suppressed. In the C-plane GaN substrate: the substrate comprises a plurality of facet growth areas each having a closed ring outline-shape on the main surface; the number density of the facet growth area accompanied by a core among the plurality of facet growth areas is less than 5 cm?2 on the main surface; and, when any circular area of 4 cm diameter is selected from an area which is on the main surface and is distant by 5 mm or more from the outer peripheral edge of the substrate, the variation widths of an a-axis direction component and an m-axis direction component of an off-angle within the circular area is each 0.25 degrees or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Iso, Hiromitsu Kimura, Yuya Saito, Yuuki Enatsu
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Publication number: 20180258552Abstract: A periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystals grown with a non-polar or semi-polar principal surface have numerous stacking faults. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a period table Group 13 metal nitride crystal wherein the occurrence of stacking faults of this kind are suppressed. The present invention achieves the foregoing by a periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal being characterized in that, in a Qx direction intensity profile that includes a maximum intensity and is derived from an isointensity contour plot obtained by x-ray reciprocal lattice mapping of (100) plane of the periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal, a Qx width at 1/300th of peak intensity is 6×10?4 rlu or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Yuuki ENATSU, Satoru NAGAO, Shuichi KUBO, Hirotaka IKEDA, Kenji FUJITO
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Patent number: 10023976Abstract: A periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystals grown with a non-polar or semi-polar principal surface have numerous stacking faults. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a period table Group 13 metal nitride crystal wherein the occurrence of stacking faults of this kind are suppressed. The present invention achieves the foregoing by a periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal being characterized in that, in a Qx direction intensity profile that includes a maximum intensity and is derived from an isointensity contour plot obtained by x-ray reciprocal lattice mapping of (100) plane of the periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal, a Qx width at 1/300th of peak intensity is 6×10?4 rlu or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuki Enatsu, Satoru Nagao, Shuichi Kubo, Hirotaka Ikeda, Kenji Fujito
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Publication number: 20180057960Abstract: A periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystals grown with a non-polar or semi-polar principal surface have numerous stacking faults. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a period table Group 13 metal nitride crystal wherein the occurrence of stacking faults of this kind are suppressed. The present invention achieves the foregoing by a periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal being characterized in that, in a Qx direction intensity profile that includes a maximum intensity and is derived from an isointensity contour plot obtained by x-ray reciprocal lattice mapping of (100) plane of the periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal, a Qx width at 1/300th of peak intensity is 6×10?4 rlu or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Yuuki ENATSU, Satoru NAGAO, Shuichi KUBO, Hirotaka IKEDA, Kenji FUJITO
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Patent number: 9840791Abstract: A periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystals grown with a non-polar or semi-polar principal surface have numerous stacking faults. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a period table Group 13 metal nitride crystal wherein the occurrence of stacking faults of this kind are suppressed. The present invention achieves the foregoing by a periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal being characterized in that, in a Qx direction intensity profile that includes a maximum intensity and is derived from an isointensity contour plot obtained by x-ray reciprocal lattice mapping of (100) plane of the periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal, a Qx width at 1/300th of peak intensity is 6×10?4 rlu or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuki Enatsu, Satoru Nagao, Shuichi Kubo, Hirotaka Ikeda, Kenji Fujito
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Publication number: 20170352721Abstract: A C-plane GaN substrate only mildly restricts the shape and dimension of a nitride semiconductor device formed on the substrate. The variation of an off-angle on the main surface of the substrate is suppressed. In the C-plane GaN substrate: the substrate comprises a plurality of facet growth areas each having a closed ring outline-shape on the main surface; the number density of the facet growth area accompanied by a core among the plurality of facet growth areas is less than 5 cm?2 on the main surface; and, when any circular area of 4 cm diameter is selected from an area which is on the main surface and is distant by 5 mm or more from the outer peripheral edge of the substrate, the variation widths of an a-axis direction component and an m-axis direction component of an off-angle within the circular area is each 0.25 degrees or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji ISO, Hiromitsu KIMURA, Yuya SAITO, Yuuki ENATSU
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Publication number: 20170338112Abstract: Provides is a C-plane GaN substrate which, although formed from a GaN crystal grown so that surface pits are generated, is free from any inversion domain, and moreover, has a low spiral dislocation density in a gallium polar surface. Provides is a C-plane GaN substrate wherein: the substrate comprises a plurality of facet growth areas each having a closed ring outline-shape on a gallium polar surface; the spiral dislocation density is less than 1×106 cm?2 anywhere on the gallium polar surface; and the substrate is free from any inversion domain. The C-plane GaN substrate may comprise a high dislocation density part having a dislocation density of more than 1×107 cm?2 and a low dislocation density part having a dislocation density of less than 1×106 cm?2 on the gallium polar surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji ISO, Yuuki ENATSU, Hiromitsu KIMURA
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Publication number: 20150093318Abstract: A periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystals grown with a non-polar or semi-polar principal surface have numerous stacking faults. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a period table Group 13 metal nitride crystal wherein the occurrence of stacking faults of this kind are suppressed. The present invention achieves the foregoing by a periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal being characterized in that, in a Qx direction intensity profile that includes a maximum intensity and is derived from an isointensity contour plot obtained by x-ray reciprocal lattice mapping of (100) plane of the periodic table Group 13 metal nitride crystal, a Qx width at 1/300th of peak intensity is 6×10?4 rlu or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuki ENATSU, Satoru NAGAO, Shuichi KUBO, Hirotaka IKEDA, Kenji FUJITO