US 7,518,153 B2
Nitride semiconductor light emitting device
Manabu Usuda, Osaka (Japan); Tetsuzo Ueda, Osaka (Japan); and Kenji Orita, Osaka (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 09, 2008, as Appl. No. 11/971,467.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-015303 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0179606 A1, Jul. 31, 2008
Int. Cl. H01L 33/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 257—94  [257/79] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprising:
a substrate formed of silicon;
an insulating film formed on the substrate;
a single crystal thin film formed on the insulating film; and
a semiconductor laminated body formed on the single crystal thin film and including a light emitting layer formed of nitride semiconductor,
wherein a thickness of the single crystal thin film is 5 nm or more and 40 nm or less, or 70 nm or more and 90 nm or less,
wherein the single crystal thin film is formed of silicon or silicon carbide.