Abstract:
An example a semiconductor device includes a first circuit and a second circuit formed in a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a first guard structure formed in the semiconductor substrate and disposed between the first circuit and the second circuit, the first guard structure including first discontinuous pairs of n+ and p+ diffusions disposed along a first axis. The semiconductor device further includes a second guard structure formed in the semiconductor substrate and disposed between the first circuit and the second circuit, the second guard structure including second discontinuous pairs of n+ and p+ diffusions disposed along the first axis, the second discontinuous pairs of n+ and p+ diffusions being staggered with respect to the first discontinuous pairs of n+ and p+ diffusions.
Abstract:
The invention achieves a lower noise of a sense signal of a FET-type hydrogen sensor. For solving the above problem, one aspect of a sensor system of the invention includes a reference device and a sensor device configured using FETs on a substrate, and further, well potentials of the reference device and the sensor device are electrically isolated from each other.
Abstract:
An ESD protection circuit and device structure comprises five transistors, two PNP and three NPN. The five transistors are coupled together so that a first NPN and PNP pair constitute a first silicon controlled rectifier, SCR. The NPN transistor 102 of the first SCR and a third transistor of NPN type are coupled so that they constitute a Darlington pair. A further NPN and PNP pair are coupled together to form a second SCR with the collector of the PNP transistor of the first SCR being coupled with the emitter of the PNP transistor of the second SCR. The circuit is particularly suitable for high voltage triggering applications and two or more devices may be cascaded in series in order to further increase the triggering voltage.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an integrated high side gate driver structure for driving a power transistor. The high side gate driver structure comprises a semiconductor substrate comprising a first polarity semiconductor material in which a first well diffusion comprising a second polarity semiconductor material is formed. A peripheral outer wall of the first well diffusion is abutted to the semiconductor substrate. A second well diffusion, comprising first polarity semiconductor material, is arranged inside the first well diffusion such that an outer peripheral wall of the second well diffusion is abutted to an inner peripheral wall of the first well diffusion. The integrated high side gate driver structure further comprises a gate driver comprising a high side positive supply voltage port, a high side negative supply voltage port, a driver input and a driver output, wherein the gate driver comprises a transistor driver arranged in the second well diffusion such that a control terminal of the transistor driver and an output terminal of the transistor driver is coupled to the driver input and the driver output, respectively; the integrated high side gate driver structure also comprises a first electrical connection between the first well diffusion and the high side negative supply voltage port and a second electrical connection between the second well diffusion and the high side negative supply voltage port.
Abstract:
La présente invention concerne un procédé de fabrication d'une plaquette (10) d'épaisseur (e), comprenant au moins les étapes consistant en (i) disposer d'un substrat monolithique en silicium dopé p ; (ii) former des défauts cristallographiques sur des parties prédéfinies d'au moins l'une des faces du substrat ; (iii) soumettre le substrat à un recuit thermique ; (iv) mettre en contact tout ou partie de l'une des faces du substrat avec de l'hydrogène ; (v) si nécessaire, favoriser la diffusion de l'hydrogène ; et (vi) soumettre le substrat à un traitement thermique.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a monolithic semi-conductor substrate (10) based on silicon, vertically divided into sub-cells that are isolated from each other, comprising a type-p or type-n silicon base (1) having an interstitial oxygen concentration of between 1017 and 2.1018 cm"3, and including, on at least one of the faces thereof, n+ and/or p+ overdoped boxes that are non-contiguous in relation to each other, characterised in that at least one substrate region, inserted between two successive boxes and extending over the entire thickness of the substrate, is an electrical insulation region (3) having a thermal donor concentration based on interstitial oxygen different from that of the base (1). The invention also relates to methods for producing such a substrate.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device that ensures both the optimum conditions of breakdown voltage of the HVIC and current carrying capacity of the pch MOSFET. In a semiconductor device of the invention, an n - type diffusion region 1 surrounds a high side well region 112 and is electrically isolated from a low side region. In the n - diffusion region 1 formed are a first p type diffusion region 2a and the second p type diffusion region 2b separated with each other. The first p type diffusion region 2a composes a double RESURF structure in an nch MOSFET 105 in the level shift-up circuit 104, and in a high voltage junction terminating structure 111. The second p type diffusion region 2b composes a double RESURF structure of a pch MOSFET 108 of a level shift-down circuit 107. The impurity concentration of the n - type diffusion region 1 is in the range from 1.3 × 10 12 /cm 2 to 2.8 × 10 12 /cm 2 . The impurity concentration of the first p type diffusion region 2a and the impurity concentration of the second p type diffusion region 2b are in the range from 1.1 × 10 12 /cm 2 to 1.4 × 10 12 /cm 2 .