摘要:
A power semiconductor device having current detecting function comprising a detection pert that includes the elements of a better reach-through withstand voltage capability than those of a principal current part. The power semiconductor device comprises such elements as DMOS, IGBT or BPT cells. One area of the device acts as the detection part and another as the principal current part. The detection part and the principal current part share as their common electrode a high density substrate having a low density layer of a first conductivity type. The surface of the low density layer carries a principal and a subordinate well region of a second conductivity type each. The surface of the principal well region bears a surface electrode region of the first conductivity type acting as the other electrode of the principal current part; the surface of the subordinate well region carries a surface electrode region of the first conductivity type acting as the other electrode of the detection part. The subordinate well region is made shallower than the principal well region illustratively by use of a mask having narrower apertures through which to form the former region. This causes a reach-through to occur in the principal current part with its well region having a shorter distance to the high density substrate, and not in the detection part with its well region having a longer distance to the substrate.
摘要:
A power semiconductor device constituted of a MOSFET incorporating a current detecting function for detecting current making use of a voltage drop developed across a channel resistance in which variations in the channel resistance due to its temperature and the gate voltage are compensated for and thereby highly accurate current detection is achieved.
摘要:
A power semiconductor device having a current detecting function comprising a detection part that includes the elements of a better reach-through withstand voltage capability than those of a principal current part. The power semiconductor device comprises such elements as DMOS, IGBT or BPT cells. One area of the device acts as the detection part and another as the principal current part. The detection part and the principal current part share as their common electrode a high density substrate having a low density layer of a first conductivity type. The surface of the low density layer carries a principal and a subordinate well region of a second conductivity type each. The surface of the principal well region bears a surface electrode region of the first conductivity type acting as the other electrode of the principal current part; the surface of the subordinate well region carries a surface electrode region of the first conductivity type acting as the other electrode of the detection part. The subordinate well region is made shallower than the principal well region illustratively by use of a mask having narrower apertures through which to form the former region. This causes a reach-through to occur in the principal current part with its well region having a shorter distance to the high density substrate, and not in the detection part with its well region having a longer distance to the substrate.
摘要:
The present invention provides an insulated gate semiconductor device which has floating regions around the bottoms of trenches and which is capable of reliably achieving a high withstand voltage. An insulated gate semiconductor device 100 includes a cell area through which current flows and an terminal area which surrounds the cell area. The semiconductor device 100 also has a plurality of gate trenches 21 in the cell area and a plurality of terminal trenches 62 in the terminal area. The gate trenches 21 are formed in a striped shape, and the terminal trenches 62 are formed concentrically. In the semiconductor device 100, the gate trenches 21 and the terminal trenches 62 are positioned in a manner that spacings between the ends of the gate trenches 21 and the side of the terminal trench 62 are uniform. That is, the length of the gate trenches 21 is adjusted according to the curvature of the corners of the terminal trench 62.
摘要:
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a IGBT region including a first region on a first surface of the substrate and providing a channel-forming region and a second region on a second surface of the substrate and providing a collector; a diode region including a third region on the first surface and providing an anode or a cathode and a fourth region on the second surface and providing the anode or the cathode; a periphery region including a fifth region on the first surface and a sixth region on the second surface. The first, third and fifth regions are commonly and electrically coupled, and the second, fourth and sixth regions are commonly and electrically coupled with one another.
摘要:
A n.sup.- -type source region 5 is formed on a predetermined region of the surface layer section of the p-type silicon carbide semiconductor layer 3 of a semiconductor substrate 4. A low-resistance p-type silicon carbide region 6 is formed on a predetermined region of the surface layer section in the p-type silicon carbide semiconductor layer 3. A trench 7 is formed in a predetermined region in the n.sup.+ -type source region 5, which trench 7 passes through the n.sup.+ -type source region 5 and the p-type silicon carbide semiconductor layer 3, reaching the n.sup.- -type silicon carbide semiconductor layer 2. The trench 7 has side walls 7a perpendicular to the surface of the semiconductor substrate 4 and a bottom side 7b parallel to the surface of the semiconductor substrate 4. The hexagonal region surrounded by the side walls 7a of the trench 7 is an island semiconductor region 12. A high-reliability gate insulating film 8 is obtained by forming a gate insulating layer on the side walls 7a which surround the island semiconductor region 12.
摘要:
A p-type silicon carbide semiconductor having a high carrier concentration and activation rate is provided by doping boron as an acceptor impurity in a single crystal silicon carbide. The boron occupies silicon sites in a crystal lattice of the single crystal silicon carbide.
摘要:
An insulated gate bipolar transistor has a reverse conducting function built therein. A semiconductor layer of a first conduction type is formed on the side of a drain, a semiconductor layer of a second conduction type for causing conductivity modulation upon carrier injection is formed on the semiconductor layer of the first conduction type, a semiconductor layer of the second conduction type for taking out a reverse conducting current opposite in direction to a drain current is formed in the semiconductor layer of the second conduction type which is electrically connected to a drain electrode, and a semiconductor layer of the second conduction type is formed at or in the vicinity of a pn junction, through which carriers are given and received to cause conductivity modulation, with a high impurity concentration resulting in a path for the reverse conducting current into a pattern not impeding the passage of the carriers. Therefore, the built-in reverse conducting function has a low operating resistance, a large reverse current can be passed, there is no increase in on-resistance, and the turn-off time can be shortened.
摘要:
A device for driving a load reactance element, such as a piezoelectric actuator for a fuel injection system, including a series reactance element connected in series with the load reactance element, and a resonance circuit formed by the load reactance and the series reactance. First and second switching elements are connected between the resonance circuit and the power source or ground potential. Each of the first and second switching elements is rendered conductive only during a half cycle of resonance. The directions of the load current flowing through the load reactance element are switchable by making alternately the first and second switching elements conductive.
摘要:
A coated layer type resistor device having a first resistor element and a second resistor element. The ratio between the resistances of the first and second resistor elements is selected to be greater than a predetermined ratio. The first resistor element is formed on an insulator substrate and consists of a resistor layer and end conductor electrodes at the ends of the resistor layer, while the second resistor element is formed on the substrate and consists of a resistor layer, end conductor electrodes, and a plurality of intermediate conductors. The distance between adjacent ones of the intermediate conductors and the distance between one of the end conductor electrodes and the adjacent intermediate conductor in the second resistor element is equal to the distance between the end conductor electrodes in the first resistor element, so that the temperature coefficient property of the resistance is equal in both the first and second resistor elements.