摘要:
This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate and having an active cell area and an edge termination area wherein the edge termination area comprises a wide trench filled with a field-crowding reduction filler and a buried field plate buried under a top surface of the semiconductor substrate and laterally extended over a top portion of the field crowding field to move a peak electric field laterally away from the active cell area. In a specific embodiment, the field-crowding reduction filler comprises a silicon oxide filled in the wide trench.
摘要:
A superjunction device and methods for layout design and fabrication of a superjunction device are disclosed. A layout of active cell column structures can be configured so that a charge due to first conductivity type dopants balances out charge due to second conductivity type dopants in a doped layer in an active cell region. A layout of end portions of the active cell column structures proximate termination column structures can be configured so that a charge due to the first conductivity type dopants in the end portions and a charge due to the first conductivity type dopants in the termination column structures balances out charge due to the second conductivity type dopants in a portion of the doped layer between the termination column structures and the end portions.
摘要:
A staggered column superjunction semiconductor device may include a cell region having one or more device cells. One or more device cells in the cell region include a semiconductor substrate configured to act as a drain and a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate. A first doped column may be formed in the semiconductor layer to a first depth and a second doped column may be formed in the semiconductor layer to a second depth. The first depth is greater than the second depth. The first and second columns are doped with dopants of a same second conductivity type and extend along a portion of a thickness of the semiconductor layer and are separated from each by a portion of the semiconductor layer.
摘要:
This invention discloses a semiconductor power device formed in a semiconductor substrate comprises a highly doped region near a top surface of the semiconductor substrate on top of a lightly doped region. The semiconductor power device further comprises a body region, a source region and a gate disposed near the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and a drain disposed at a bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor power device further comprises source trenches opened into the highly doped region filled with a conductive trench filling material in electrical contact with the source region near the top surface. The semiconductor power device further comprises a buried field ring regions disposed below the source trenches and doped with dopants of opposite conductivity from the highly doped region. In an alternate embodiment, the semiconductor power device further comprises doped regions surrounded the sidewalls of the source trenches and doped with a dopant of a same conductivity type of the buried field ring regions to function as a charge supply path.
摘要:
A lateral super junction JFET is formed from stacked alternating P type and N type semiconductor layers over a P-epi layer supported on an N+ substrate. An N+ drain column extends down through the super junction structure and the P-epi to connect to the N+ substrate to make the device a bottom drain device. N+ source column and P+ gate column extend through the super junction but stop at the P-epi layer. A gate-drain avalanche clamp diode is formed from the bottom the P+ gate column through the P-epi to the N+ drain substrate.
摘要翻译:横向超结JFET由负载在N +衬底上的P表面层上的堆叠的交替P型和N型半导体层形成。 N +漏极柱向下延伸穿过超结结构和P-epi以连接到N +衬底以使器件成为底部漏极器件。 N +源极柱和P +栅极柱延伸穿过超级结,但在P-epi层处停止。 栅极 - 漏极雪崩钳位二极管从P +栅极底部通过P-epi到N +漏极衬底形成。
摘要:
A low capacitance transient voltage suppressor with reduced clamping voltage includes an n+ type substrate, a first epitaxial layer on the substrate, a buried layer formed within the first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer, and an implant layer formed within the first epitaxial layer below the buried layer. The implant layer extends beyond the buried layer. A first trench is at an edge of the buried layer and an edge of the implant layer. A second trench is at another edge of the buried layer and extends into the implant layer. A third trench is at another edge of the implant layer. Each trench is lined with a dielectric layer. A set of source regions is formed within a top surface of the second epitaxial layer. The trenches and source regions alternate. A pair of implant regions is formed in the second epitaxial layer.
摘要:
An integrated structure includes a plurality of split-gate trench MOSFETs. A plurality of trenches is formed within the silicon carbide substrate composition, each trench is lined with a passivation layer, each trench being substantially filled with a first conductive region a second conductive region and an insulating material having a dielectric constant similar to a dielectric constant of the silicon carbide substrate composition. The first conductive region is separated from the passivation layer by the insulating material. The first and second conductive regions form gate regions for each trench MOSFET. The first conductive region is separated from the second conductive region by the passivation layer. A doped body region of a first conductivity type formed at an upper portion of the substrate composition and a doped source region of a second conductivity type formed inside the doped body region.
摘要:
This invention discloses an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) device formed in a semiconductor substrate. The IGBT device has a split-shielded trench gate that includes an upper gate segment and a lower shield segment. The IGBT device may further include a dummy trench filled with a dielectric layer disposed at a distance away from the split-shielded trench gate. The IGBT device further includes a body region extended between the split-shielded trench gate and the dummy trench encompassing a source region surrounding the split-shielded trench gate near a top surface of the semiconductor substrate. The IGBT device further includes a heavily doped N region disposed below the body region and above a source-dopant drift region above a bottom body-dopant collector region at a bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate. In an alternative embodiment, the IGBT may include a planar gate with a trench shield electrode.
摘要:
A vertical transient voltage suppressing (TVS) device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type where the substrate is heavily doped, an epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type formed on the substrate where the epitaxial layer has a first thickness, and a base region of a second conductivity type formed in the epitaxial layer where the base region is positioned in a middle region of the epitaxial layer. The base region and the epitaxial layer provide a substantially symmetrical vertical doping profile on both sides of the base region. In one embodiment, the base region is formed by high energy implantation. In another embodiment, the base region is formed as a buried layer. The doping concentrations of the epitaxial layer and the base region are selected to configure the TVS device as a punchthrough diode based TVS or an avalanche mode TVS.
摘要:
A lateral super junction JFET is formed from stacked alternating P type and N type semiconductor layers over a P-epi layer supported on an N+ substrate. An N+ drain column extends down through the super junction structure and the P-epi to connect to the N+ substrate to make the device a bottom drain device. N+ source column and P+ gate column extend through the super junction but stop at the P-epi layer. A gate-drain avalanche clamp diode is formed from the bottom the P+ gate column through the P-epi to the N+ drain substrate.