Patent ID: 7790584

Claim:
A method of growing a nitride single crystal thin film, comprising: forming a semi-polar nitride single crystal base layer on an m-plane hexagonal system single crystal substrate; forming a dielectric pattern layer on the semi-polar nitride single crystal base layer; and growing the semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film on the semi-polar nitride single crystal base layer having the dielectric pattern layer in a lateral direction, wherein the growing of the semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film in a lateral direction includes: primarily growing the semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film in the lateral direction such that part of a growth plane on the semi-polar nitride single crystal base layer has an a-plane; and secondarily growing the semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film in the lateral direction such that sidewalls of the primarily grown semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film are combined to have a (11 2 2) plane.