Patent ID: 7955437

Claim:
An apparatus for fabricating a III-V nitride film by a MOCVD method, comprising: a reactor tube arranged horizontally, a susceptor to hold a substrate thereon installed in the reactor tube, a heater to heat the substrate to a temperature greater than 1000° C. via the susceptor, a ventilation duct arranged at one side of the reactor tube; gas supply means arranged at the other side of the reactor tube and parallel to the surface of the susceptor for introducing a III raw material gas and a V raw material gas into a center region of the reactor tube, the gas supply means comprising first and second gas inlets passing through one end wall of the reactor tube and respective first and second separated guiding tubes that are engaged with their respective gas inlets such that the III raw material gas and the V raw material gas pass through the separated guiding tubes after leaving the gas inlets and are effectively supplied onto the substrate without being supplied in a region remote from the substrate, the III raw material gas and the V raw material gas introduced into the reactor tube forming one-way flow toward the ventilation duct, and means for directly cooling down at least one portion of the inner wall of the reactor tube directly opposite and within a line of sight relative to the substrate and another portion of the inner wall of the reactor tube on the upperstream side of the one portion such that the reaction between the III raw material gas and the V raw material can effectively be reduced on the inner wall of the reactor tube opposed to the susceptor, the means for cooling further comprising a cooling jacket built in the inner wall of the reactor such that the jacket replaces a part of the inner wall with itself and is between at least part of the means for cooling down the at least one portion of the inner wall of the reactor tube directly opposite the substrate and the susceptor.