Group III nitride single crystal and method of its growth

摘要

Affords methods of growing III nitride single crystals of favorable crystallinity with excellent reproducibility, and the III nitride crystals obtained by the growth methods. One method grows a III nitride single crystal (3) inside a crystal-growth vessel (11), the method being characterized in that a porous body formed from a metal carbide, whose porosity is between 0.1% and 70% is employed in at least a portion of the crystal-growth vessel (11). Employing the crystal-growth vessel (11) makes it possible to discharge from 1% to 50% of a source gas (4) inside the crystal-growth vessel (11) via the pores in the porous body to the outside of the crystal-growth vessel (11).