Abstract:
A semiconductor device comprises a transistor in a semiconductor body having a main surface. The transistor comprises a source region, a drain region, a body region, a drift zone, and a gate electrode at the body region. The body region and the drift zone are disposed along a first direction between the source region and the drain region, the first direction being parallel to the main surface. The gate electrode is disposed in a trench extending in the first direction. The semiconductor device further comprises a source contact electrically connected to the source region and to a source terminal. The source contact is disposed in a source contact opening in the main surface. The semiconductor device further comprises a body contact portion electrically connected to the source terminal and to the body region. The body contact portion vertically overlaps with the source region.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a transistor in a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface. The transistor includes a source region, a drain region, a channel region, a drift zone, and a gate electrode adjacent to at least two sides of the channel region. The gate electrode is disposed in trenches extending in a first direction parallel to the first main surface. The gate electrode is electrically coupled to a gate terminal. The channel region and the drift zone are disposed along the first direction between the source region and the drain region. The semiconductor device further includes a conductive layer beneath the gate electrode and insulated from the gate electrode. The conductive layer is electrically connected to the gate terminal.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a transistor formed in a semiconductor substrate including a main surface. The transistor includes a source region, a drain region, a channel region, and a gate electrode. The source region and the drain region are disposed along a first direction, the first direction being parallel to the main surface. The channel region has a shape of a ridge extending along the first direction, the ridge including a top side and a first and a second sidewalls. The gate electrode is disposed at the first sidewall of the channel region, and the gate electrode is absent from the second sidewall of the channel region.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit includes a transistor in a semiconductor substrate having a main surface. The transistor includes a source region, a drain region, a channel region, a drift zone, a gate electrode, and a gate dielectric adjacent to the gate electrode. The gate electrode is disposed adjacent to at least two sides of the channel region. The channel region and the drift zone are disposed along a first direction parallel to the main surface between the source region and the drain region. The gate dielectric has a thickness that varies at different positions of the gate electrode.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a transistor comprises forming field plate trenches in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a drift zone being defined between adjacent field plate trenches, forming a field dielectric layer in the field plate trenches, thereafter, forming gate trenches in the main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a channel region being defined between adjacent gate trenches, and forming a conductive material in at least some of the field plate trenches and in at least some of the gate trenches. The method further comprising forming a source region and forming a drain region in the main surface of the semiconductor substrate.
Abstract:
A MEMS device includes a fixed electrode and a movable electrode arranged isolated and spaced from the fixed electrode by a distance. The movable electrode is suspended against the fixed electrode by one or more spacers including an insulating material, wherein the movable electrode is laterally affixed to the one or more spacers.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit is formed in a semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit includes a trench formed in a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The trench includes a first trench portion and a second trench portion. The first trench portion is connected with the second trench portion. Openings of the first and second trench portions are adjacent to the first main surface. The integrated circuit further includes a trench transistor structure including a gate electrode disposed in the first trench portion, and a trench capacitor structure including a capacitor dielectric and a first capacitor electrode. The capacitor dielectric and the first capacitor electrode are disposed in the second trench portion. The first capacitor electrode includes a layer conformal with a sidewall of the second trench portion.
Abstract:
A MEMS device includes a fixed electrode and a movable electrode arranged isolated and spaced from the fixed electrode by a distance. The movable electrode is suspended against the fixed electrode by one or more spacers including an insulating material, wherein the movable electrode is laterally affixed to the one or more spacers.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having first regions of a first conductivity type and body regions of the first conductivity type, which are arranged in a manner adjoining the first region and overlap the latter in each case on a side of the first region which faces a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and having a multiplicity of drift zone regions arranged between the first regions and composed of a semiconductor material of a second conductivity type, which is different than the first conductivity type. The first regions and the drift zone regions are arranged alternately and form a superjunction structure. The semiconductor device further includes a gate electrode formed in a trench in the semiconductor substrate.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit is formed in a semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit includes a trench formed in a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The trench includes a first trench portion and a second trench portion. The first trench portion is connected with the second trench portion. Openings of the first and second trench portions are adjacent to the first main surface. The integrated circuit further includes a trench transistor structure including a gate electrode disposed in the first trench portion, and a trench capacitor structure including a capacitor dielectric and a first capacitor electrode. The capacitor dielectric and the first capacitor electrode are disposed in the second trench portion. The first capacitor electrode includes a layer conformal with a sidewall of the second trench portion.