Patent attributes
In a gallium nitride semiconductor device comprising an active layer made of an n-type gallium nitride semiconductor that includes In and is doped with n-type impurity and a p-type cladding layer made of a p-type gallium nitride semiconductor that includes Al and is doped with p-type impurity, a first cap layer, made of a gallium nitride semiconductor that includes n-type impurity of lower concentration than that of said active layer and p-type impurity of lower concentration than that of said p-type cladding layer, and a second cap layer made p-type gallium nitride semiconductor that includes Al and is doped with p-type impurity are stacked one on another between said active layer and said p-type cladding layer.