摘要:
Disclosed is a photodiode comprising a semiconductor substrate (12) that is provided with a photosensitive area (18, 24) which encompasses a space charge region (18) generating a portion of a diffusion current and a diffusion region (24) generating another portion of a diffusion current, and an insulating device (20) which at least partly delimits the diffusion region relative to an adjacent surrounding area of the semiconductor substrate. In order to lower the reduction in the photodiode bandwidth caused by the diffusion current blurring the response of the photodiode, the semiconductor substrate is provided with an insulating device which delimits the diffusion region relative to the surrounding semiconductor substrate, thereby reducing the number of charge carriers that contribute to the diffusion rate because the diffusion region in which the diffusing charge carriers are produced is reduced and because the diffusing charge carriers produced in the reduced diffusion region are sucked up by the insulating device such that said diffusing charge carriers do not contribute to the photocurrent.
摘要:
A high voltage MOSFET with low on-resistance and a method of lowering the on-resistance for a specific device breakdown voltage of a high voltage MOSFET. The MOSFET includes a blocking layer (16) of a first conductivity type having vertical sections of a second conductivity type or the blocking layer may include alternating vertical sections of a first and second conductivity type.
摘要:
A static-type semiconductor memory device having a three-layer structure; the gate-electrode wiring lines being formed by a first conductive layer of, for example, polycrystalline silicon; the word lines, the ground lines, and the power supply lines being formed by a second conductive layer of, for example, aluminum; and the bit lines being formed by a third conductive layer of, for example, aluminum; the bit lines extending in a column direction, and the ground lines extending in a row direction; whereby an improved integration degree, an improved operating speed, an improved manufacturing yield, and a countermeasure for soft errors due to alpha particles are attained.
摘要:
The invention relates to a semiconductor device comprising a preferably discrete bipolar transistor with a collector region (1), a base region (2), and an emitter region (3) which are provided with connection conductors (6, 7, 8). A known means of preventing a saturation of the transistor is that the latter is provided with a Schottky clamping diode. The latter is formed in that case in that the connection conductor (7) of the base region (2) is also put into contact with the collector region (1). In a device according to the invention, the second connection conductor (7) is exclusively connected to the base region (2), and a partial region (2B) of that portion (2A) of the base region (2) which lies outside the emitter region (3) and comprises a smaller flux of dopant atoms. The bipolar transistor in a device according to the invention is provided with a pn clamping diode which is formed between the partial region (2B) and the collector region (1). Such a device has excellent properties, such as a short switching time (ts) and a saturation collector-emitter voltage (VCEsat) which is not too high, while having a low, non-variable and well reproducible leakage current, unlike the known device. In a favourable modification, a region (4) provided simultaneously with the emitter region (3) is present between the partial region (2B) and the second connection conductor (7).
摘要:
The invention relates to a semiconductor device comprising a preferably discrete bipolar transistor with a collector region (1), a base region (2), and an emitter region (3) which are provided with connection conductors (6, 7, 8). A known means of preventing a saturation of the transistor is that the latter is provided with a Schottky clamping diode. The latter is formed in that case in that the connection conductor (7) of the base region (2) is also put into contact with the collector region (1). In a device according to the invention, the second connection conductor (7) is exclusively connected to the base region (2), and a partial region (2B) of that portion (2A) of the base region (2) which lies outside the emitter region (3) and comprises a smaller flux of dopant atoms. The bipolar transistor in a device according to the invention is provided with a pn clamping diode which is formed between the partial region (2B) and the collector region (1). Such a device has excellent properties, such as a short switching time (ts) and a saturation collector-emitter voltage (VCEsat) which is not too high, while having a low, non-variable and well reproducible leakage current, unlike the known device. In a favourable modification, a region (4) provided simultaneously with the emitter region (3) is present between the partial region (2B) and the second connection conductor (7).
摘要:
A semiconductor device structure and method are presented for increasing a breakdown voltage of a junction between a substrate of first conductivity type and a device region. The structure includes a region of second conductivity type in the substrate completely buried in the substrate below and separated from the device region. The region of second conductivity type is located a predetermined distance away from the device region. The distance is sufficient to permit a depletion region to form between the region of second conductivity type and the device region, when a first voltage is applied between the device region and the substrate. The distance also is determined to produce a radius of curvature of the depletion region, when a second voltage that is larger than the first voltage is applied between the device region and the substrate, that is larger than a radius of curvature of the depletion region about the device region that would be formed if the region of second conductivity type were not present. Traditional field shaping regions spaced from the device region at a surface of the substrate and spaced from the region of second conductivity type may be used in conjunction with the buried ring, if desired..
摘要:
An insulating substrate (11) has thin film transistors (13), and scanning and data wires (14, 18) for supplying signals to the transistors. Each of the wires (14, 18) has a two-layered structure comprising a lower metal film (14a, 18a) and an upper metal film (14b, 18b). Oxide films (a,c) serving as etching stopper films and having a width smaller than each of the lower and upper metal films are interposed between the lower and upper metal films over the entire length thereof.