Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electrostatic discharge protection devices
- Patent Title (中): 静电放电保护装置
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Application No.: US14478817Application Date: 2014-09-05
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Publication No.: US09087849B2Publication Date: 2015-07-21
- Inventor: Shih-Hung Chen , Dimitri Linten
- Applicant: IMEC VZW
- Applicant Address: BE Leuven
- Assignee: IMEC VZW
- Current Assignee: IMEC VZW
- Current Assignee Address: BE Leuven
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
- Priority: EP13183428 20130906
- Main IPC: H01L27/02
- IPC: H01L27/02 ; H01L23/00 ; H01L29/78

Abstract:
The disclosed technology generally relates to electrostatic discharge protection devices that protect circuits from transient electrical events and more particularly to low-voltage triggered silicon-controlled rectifier devices implemented using a bulk fin field-effect transistor technology. In one aspect, an electrostatic discharge protection device comprises a low-voltage triggered silicon-controlled rectifier having an embedded grounded-gate n-channel metal oxide semiconductor structure implemented as a bulk fin field-effect transistor having a plurality of fin structures. The fin structures direct current from an avalanche zone to a gate formed over the fin structure. The electrostatic discharge protection device has a higher trigger current and a lower leakage current than a similar device having a planar embedded grounded-gate n-channel metal oxide semiconductor structure because the current flow is restricted by the fin structures.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150069529A1 ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION DEVICES Public/Granted day:2015-03-12
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