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A power semiconductor device which comprises either a bipolar transistor or a MOSFET, incorporates an integral Schottky diode in antiparallel connection with the transistor for conducting reverse current through the power semiconductor device. By fabricating the diode to exhibit a lower turn-on voltage, than the P-N junction at the base and collector interface in the bipolar transistor, or at the base and drift layer interface in the MOSFET, the power semiconductor device, when in the reverse conduction mode, exhibits excellent reverse recovery characteristics and without forward voltage overshoot transients.
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A self-protected MOS gated device includes a PN junction disposed in an electrical path between the source electrode and the gate contact of the device and integrally formed with a DMOS cell of the device to protect the DMOS cell from surge voltages. The PN junction has conductivity characteristics selected to provide junction breakdown at a predetermined voltage level and at a predetermined location along the junction.
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An MOS gate turn-off thyristor structure includes non-regenerative (three-layer or transistor) portions interspersed with the four-layer regenerative (thyristor) portions and further includes gate electrode segments disposed adjacent to relatively narrow portions of the base region. Upon application of an appropriate turn-off gate bias to the gate electrode segments, the base region of the regenerative portion in which they are disposed is pinched off and the current flowing therethrough is diverted to flow through the non-regenerative portion of the structure. This interrupts regeneration in the regenerative structure and the device turns off.
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An insulated-gate semiconductor device includes an IGFET with channel, base, drift and drain regions, and further includes source and drain electrodes attached to at least the base region and to the drain region, repectively. The device further includes a carrier injection region which adjoins the IGFET drift region and forms a P-N junction therewith. Biasing structure connected to the carrier injection region and effective during the on-state of the device is provided for forward biasing the P-N junction by an amount sufficient to induce injection of carriers from the carrier injection region, across the P-N junction, and into the IGFET drift region. As a consequence, the on-resistance of the device is markedly reduced.
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A high speed semiconductor pinch rectifier attains low forward voltage drop and low reverse leakage current by utilizing depletion region pinch-off of conduction channels in a high-resistivity region. In a preferred form, the pinch rectifier additionally utilizes a Schottky barrier contact so as to facilitate device fabrication.
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Gate turn-off field controlled thyristors having high forward blocking capabilities and high blocking gains, and planar, junction gate field effect transistors having high source-to-drain breakdown voltage capability with high differential blocking gain, include a gate region having a plurality of vertical-walled grooves. The devices are fabricated by preferentially etching one surface of a semiconductor substrate, selectively refilling the grooves with a vapor phase epitaxial growth, forming a plurality of first electrode regions on the same surface and interdigitated with the gate region, and forming a second electrode region on the opposite surface of the substrate.
摘要:
An electrical circuit includes a JFET serially connected to an IGFET, the gate of the IGFET constituting the gate for the circuit. Biasing structure, such as a resistor, is connected between the circuit gate and the gate of the JFET for forward-biasing the P-N junction of the JFET extant between its gate and channel regions. When this P-N junction is biased by more than about 0.6 volts for a silicon JFET, the JFET gate region injects current carriers into the JFET channel region, whereby bipolar conduction occurs in the JFET channel region and low on-resistance for the circuit is achieved. In a preferred circuit the biasing structure comprises an IGFET, which advantageously results in the circuit gate having a high input impedance.
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Buried regions of predetermined conductivity in silicon semiconductor devices are formed with substantially no out diffusion from the substrate and buried region, and with substantially no lateral autodoping, by diffusing the region into a monocrystalline silicon wafer doped to one conductivity type, and depositing silicon from a melt supersaturated with silicon and containing conductivity type determining impurities, epitaxially atop the wafer. The device is completed by performing conventional diffusion of conductivity type determining impurities into the epitaxially deposited layer.
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Voltage breakdown resistant monocrystalline silicon carbide semiconductor devices are obtained by forming an amorphous silicon carbide termination region in a monocrystalline silicon carbide substrate, at a face thereof, adjacent and surrounding a silicon carbide device. The amorphous termination region is preferably formed by implanting electrically inactive ions, such as argon, into the substrate face at sufficient energy and dose to amorphize the substrate face. The device contact or contacts act as an implantation mask to provide a self-aligned termination region for the device. The terminated devices may exhibit voltage breakdown resistance which approaches the ideal value for silicon carbide.
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A Schottky rectifier includes MOS-filled trenches and an anode electrode at a face of a semiconductor substrate and an optimally nonuniformly doped drift region therein which in combination provide high blocking voltage capability with low reverse-biased leakage current and low forward voltage drop. The nonuniformly doped drift region contains a concentration of first conductivity type dopants therein which increases monotonically in a direction away from a Schottky rectifying junction formed between the anode electrode and the drift region. A profile of the doping concentration in the drift region is preferably a linear or step graded profile with a concentration of less than about 5.times.10.sup.16 cm.sup.-3 (e.g., 1.times.10.sup.16 cm.sup.-3) at the Schottky rectifying junction and a concentration of about ten times greater (e.g., 3.times.10.sup.17 cm.sup.-3) at a junction between the drift region and a cathode region. The thickness of the insulating regions (e.g., SiO.sub.2) in the MOS-filled trenches is also greater than about 1000 .ANG. to simultaneously inhibit field crowding and increase the breakdown voltage of the device. The nonuniformly doped drift region is preferably formed by epitaxial growth from the cathode region and doped in-situ.
摘要翻译:肖特基整流器包括MOS填充沟槽和在半导体衬底的表面处的阳极电极和在其中的最佳不均匀掺杂漂移区域,其组合提供具有低反向偏置漏电流和低正向压降的高阻断电压能力。 不均匀掺杂的漂移区域包含其中在远离形成在阳极电极和漂移区域之间的肖特基整流结的方向上单调增加的第一导电类型掺杂剂的浓度。 在漂移区中掺杂浓度的曲线优选是在肖特基整流结处具有小于约5×10 16 cm -3(例如,1×10 16 cm -3)的浓度的线性或阶梯分布轮廓,并且浓度为约十倍 (例如,3×10 17 cm -3)在漂移区域和阴极区域之间的连接处。 MOS填充的沟槽中的绝缘区域(例如,SiO 2)的厚度也大于约1000,以同时抑制场强拥挤并增加器件的击穿电压。 非均匀掺杂漂移区优选通过从阴极区域外延生长并原位掺杂形成。