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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device made of a wide-gap semiconductor.SOLUTION: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises the steps of: forming a first trench 21 in a first range 1A of a drift layer 11 having a surface including the first range 1A and a second range 2A; crystal-growing a p-type base layer 12 on a surface of the drift layer 11 after forming the first trench 21; and crystal-growing an n-type source layer 13 on a surface of a base layer 12. The material of the drift layer 11, the base layer 12, and source layer 13 is a wide-gap semiconductor.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving method for a semiconductor element having transistors and diodes mounted together on a semiconductor substrate, which reduces power loss. SOLUTION: The driving method includes a gate voltage applying step of applying a gate voltage Vg (Tr2) to the gate electrode 24 of a transistor Tr2 when a reflux current flows through a diode D2. The gate voltage Vg (Tr2) is set to a voltage lower than a first voltage V H . The first voltage V H is a threshold voltage for the transistor Tr2 when a reverse voltage is applied to the diode D2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce manufacturing processes of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. SOLUTION: A control gate 5 is formed on a field insulating film 2. A floating gate 10 is then formed on the control gate 5 through an insulating film 7. The floating gate 10 is constituted so as to extend from the control gate 5 to on a first gate film 8a. Such structure allows a lower electrode 6 of a capacitor concurrently formed on a Si substrate 1 with the EPROM, and the control gate 5 to be formed, and the floating gate 10 to be concurrently formed with a top electrode 11 of the capacitor. Moreover, a gate oxide film 8b of a MOS transistor concurrently formed on the Si substrate 1 with the EPROM, and a first gate film 8a of EPROM are simultaneously formed. This allows manufacturing processes to be reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent metal of a thin film resistor from causing an oxidization reaction and hereby being broken. SOLUTION: A CrSi film 22 is formed on a silicon substrate via an insulating film, and at opposite ends of which electrode patterns 24a, 24b are formed. A slit 23 is formed longitudinally at the center of the CrSi film 22. An aluminum electrode 25 is disposed via an insulating film on the CrSi film 22 so as to intersect an aluminum electrode 25. Even when a foreign substance P remains in a manufacturing process, and water invades, overall oxidization on the CrSi film 22 is prevented at the slit 23 to prolong the time until it reaches a broken state. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a semiconductor device to be lessened in number of processes and in manufacturing cost. SOLUTION: An up-drain MOSFET 8, an NPN transistor 9, and a double-well CMOS 10 are formed in a silicon 4 on a SOI substrate 1. A P-well region 50 and an N-well region 58 used in the double-well CMOS 10 are also formed in an up-drain MOSFET forming region and a bipolar transistor forming region respectively, and the up-drain MOSFET 8 and the NPN transistor 9 comprise P-well regions 13 and 31 and N-well regions 18 and 37, respectively.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a method for inspecting an insulated gate bipolar transistor, capable of inspecting the intrinsic gettering performance efficiently and estructively. SOLUTION: The intrinsic gettering performance of an IGBT 1 is inspected by measuring the current amplification rate (HFE) of an PNP transistor 30 formed of a channel region 12, a drift layer 11, a buffer layer 17 and a collector layer 18. The current amplification rate (HFE) is measured while using an emitter electrode 16 of the IGBT 1 as a collector terminal C1 of the PNP transistor 30, an EQR (equipotential ring) 20 connected to the drift layer 11 of the IGBT 1 as a base terminal of the PNP transistor 30, and a collector electrode of the IGBT as an emitter terminal E1 of the PNP transistor 30. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To overcome a trade-off relationship between a surge voltage and a turn-off loss that exists within a transition time period for turning off a transistor, in a circuit for driving the transistor. SOLUTION: A driving circuit 10 comprises a variable resistor R12 that is electrically connected to a gate electrode G of a transistor 20. A width of a current path of the variable resistor R12 is controlled by a depletion layer which is expandable in accordance with a drain-source voltage Vds of the transistor 20. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To break down a trade-off relation between a serge voltage and a turn-off loss existing in a transitional stage in which a transistor is turned off in a circuit for driving the transistor. SOLUTION: A driving circuit 10 is provided with an adjustment circuit 20 for adjusting the resistance value of the gate resistance of a transistor 30. An adjustment circuit 20 adjusts the resistance value of the gate resistance of the transistor gate 30 based on the current value of the negative gate currents Ig(-) of the transistor 30. Thus, the driving circuit 10 rapidly varies drain currents at the beginning of the transitional stage when the transistor 30 is turned off, and slowly varies the drain currents in the end of the transitional stage when the transistor 30 is turned off. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a switching circuit capable of simultaneously suppressing both a switching loss and a surge voltage. SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a switching circuit for temporally switching main electrodes of a transistor between a conducted state and a non-conducted state by switching a gate voltage of the transistor, wherein a drain or a collector of the transistor and its gate or the drain or the collector of the transistor and its source or its emitter are connected by a series circuit of a Zener diode and a capacitor. While a drain voltage is low, a state is judged where capacitance of the capacitor is not contributed by the Zener diode, a drain current and the drain voltage vary at high speed, thereby reducing the switching loss. When the drain voltage increases, the Zener diode surrenders, the capacitance of the capacitor is added and the drain current and the drain voltage vary at a low speed, thereby suppressing the surge voltage low. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device capable of obtaining stable recovery dielectric strength.SOLUTION: A semiconductor chip 1 comprises an outer peripheral region 3 in the outer periphery of an element part 2. The element part 2 has contacts 26 electrically connecting with a semiconductor substrate 13 and a source electrode 24. In one surface 14 of the semiconductor substrate 13, the resistance value per unit area of an end portion 26a of each contact 26 at the outer peripheral region 3 side of the element part 2 is higher than that of a portion of each contact 26 at the element part 2 side. For this reason, since holes accumulated in the outer peripheral region 3 of the semiconductor chip 1 hardly flow into the end portions 26a of the contacts 26, the holes do not concentratively flow into the end portions 26a of the contacts 26 during recovery. This equalizes the flow of the holes from the outer peripheral region 3 to the contacts 26, thereby obtaining the stable recovery dielectric strength.