Patent ID: 7453096

Claim:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor light-emitting device, said semiconductor light-emitting device having a semiconductor layer containing Al between a substrate and an active layer of a nitrogen-containing III-V mixed crystal, said method comprising the steps of: heating a susceptor in a growth chamber; growing said semiconductor layer in said growth chamber while using a metal organic source of Al; and growing said active layer in said growth chamber while using a nitrogen compound source, wherein there is provided a step, after said step of growing said semiconductor layer containing Al but before a start of said step of growing said active layer, of removing residual Al species comprising one or more of an Al source, an Al reactant, an Al compound, and Al, remaining in said growth chamber, from a part of said growth chamber that can make a contact with said nitrogen compound source or an impurity contained in said nitrogen compound source, wherein said residual Al species is removed to an outside of said growth chamber.