摘要:
A fabrication method of a semiconductor wafer can fill trenches formed in a semiconductor substrate with an epitaxial film with high crystal quality without leaving cavities in the trenches. The trenches are formed in the first conductivity type semiconductor substrate. Planes exposed inside the trenches are made clean surfaces by placing the substrate in a gas furnace, followed by supplying the furnace with an etching gas and carrier gas, and by performing etching on the exposed planes inside the trenches by a thickness from about a few nanometers to one micrometer. The trenches have a geometry opening upward through the etching. Following the etching, a second conductivity type semiconductor is epitaxially grown in the trenches by supplying the furnace with a growth gas, etching gas, doping gas and carrier gas, thereby filling the trenches. Instead of making the trenches slightly-opened upward, their sidewalls may be made planes enabling facet formation.
摘要:
A semiconductor superjunction device has a superjunction structure formed in a drift region of the device. The superjunction structure has alternately arranged n-type regions and p-type semiconductor regions layered parallel with the drift direction of carriers, permitting current flow when turned ON and depleting when turned OFF. It also includes a first intrinsic semiconductor region between the n-type and p-type regions. The first intrinsic semiconductor region and the n-type and p-type regions sandwiching the first intrinsic semiconductor region forming a unit. A plurality of units are repetitively arranged to form a repetitively arranged structure. The value of mobility of one of electrons in the n-type region or holes in the p-type region is equal to or less than half the value of mobility of corresponding to one of electrons or holes in the first intrinsic semiconductor region. The superjunction structure eliminates the lower limit that prevents further narrowing of the widths of the n-type and p-type regions to further improve the tradeoff relationship between increasing the breakdown voltage and reducing the on-resistance.
摘要:
A semiconductor superjunction device has a superjunction structure formed in a drift region of the device. The superjunction structure has alternately arranged n-type regions and p-type semiconductor regions layered parallel with the drift direction of carriers, permitting current flow when turned ON and depleting when turned OFF. It also includes a first intrinsic semiconductor region between the n-type and p-type regions. The first intrinsic semiconductor region and the n-type and p-type regions sandwiching the first intrinsic semiconductor region forming a unit. A plurality of units are repetitively arranged to form a repetitively arranged structure. The value of mobility of one of electrons in the n-type region or holes in the p-type region is equal to or less than half the value of mobility of corresponding to one of electrons or holes in the first intrinsic semiconductor region. The superjunction structure eliminates the lower limit that prevents further narrowing of the widths of the n-type and p-type regions to further improve the tradeoff relationship between increasing the breakdown voltage and reducing the on-resistance.
摘要:
A semiconductor device facilitates obtaining a higher breakdown voltage in the portion of the semiconductor chip around the drain drift region and improving the avalanche withstanding capability thereof. A vertical MOSFET according to the invention includes a drain layer; a drain drift region on drain layer, drain drift region including a first alternating conductivity type layer; a breakdown withstanding region (the peripheral region of the semiconductor chip) on drain layer and around drain drift region, breakdown withstanding region providing substantially no current path in the ON-state of the MOSFET, breakdown withstanding region being depleted in the OFF-state of the MOSFET, breakdown withstanding region including a second alternating conductivity type layer, and an under region below a gate pad, and the under region including a third alternating conductivity type layer.
摘要:
This invention clarifies the effects of parameters and enables the mass production of a super-junction semiconductor device, which has a drift layer composed of a parallel pn layer that conducts electricity in the ON state and is depleted in the OFF state. The quantity of impurities in n drift regions is within the range between 100% and 150% or between 110% and 150% of the quantity of impurities in p partition regions. The impurity density of either one of the n drift regions and the p partition regions is within the range between 92% and 108% of the impurity density of the other regions. In addition, the width of either one of the n drift regions and the p partition regions is within the range between 94% and 106% of the width of the other regions.
摘要:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device facilitating a peripheral portion thereof with a breakdown voltage higher than the breakdown voltage in the drain drift layer without employing a guard ring or field plate. A preferred embodiment includes a drain drift region with a first alternating conductivity type layer formed of n drift current path regions and p partition regions arranged alternately with each other, and a breakdown withstanding region with a second alternating conductivity type layer formed of n regions and p regions arranged alternately with each other, the breakdown withstanding region providing no current path in the ON-state of the device and being depleted in the OFF-state of the device. Since depletion layers expand in both directions from multiple pn-junctions into n regions and p regions in the OFF-state of the device, the adjacent areas of p-type base regions, the outer area of the semiconductor chip and the deep area of the semiconductor chip are depleted. Thus, the breakdown voltage of breakdown withstanding region is higher than the breakdown voltage of drain drift region.
摘要:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device facilitating a peripheral portion thereof with a breakdown voltage higher than the breakdown voltage in the drain drift layer without employing a guard ring or field plate. A preferred embodiment includes a drain drift region with a first alternating conductivity type layer formed of n drift current path regions and p partition regions arranged alternately with each other, and a breakdown withstanding region with a second alternating conductivity type layer formed of n regions and p regions arranged alternately with each other, the breakdown withstanding region providing no current path in the ON-state of the device and being depleted in the OFF-state of the device. Since depletion layers expand in both directions from multiple pn-junctions into n regions and p regions in the OFF-state of the device, the adjacent areas of p-type base regions, the outer area of the semiconductor chip and the deep area of the semiconductor chip are depleted. Thus, the breakdown voltage of breakdown withstanding region is higher than the breakdown voltage of drain drift region.
摘要:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device facilitating a peripheral portion thereof with a breakdown voltage higher than the breakdown voltage in the drain drift layer without employing a guard ring or field plate. A preferred embodiment includes a drain drift region with a first alternating conductivity type layer formed of n drift current path regions and p partition regions arranged alternately with each other, and a breakdown withstanding region with a second alternating conductivity type layer formed of n regions and p regions arranged alternately with each other, the breakdown withstanding region providing no current path in the ON-state of the device and being depleted in the OFF-state of the device. Since depletion layers expand in both directions from multiple pn-junctions into n regions and p regions in the OFF-state of the device, the adjacent areas of p-type base regions, the outer area of the semiconductor chip and the deep area of the semiconductor chip are depleted. Thus, the breakdown voltage of breakdown withstanding region is higher than the breakdown voltage of drain drift region.
摘要:
A reliable super-junction semiconductor device is provided that facilitates relaxing the tradeoff relation between the on-resistance and the breakdown voltage and improving the avalanche withstanding capability under an inductive load. The super-junction semiconductor device includes an active region including a thin first alternating conductivity type layer and a heavily doped n+-type intermediate drain layer between first alternating conductivity type layer and an n++-type drain layer, and a breakdown withstanding region including a thick second alternating conductivity type layer. Alternatively, active region includes a first alternating conductivity type layer and a third alternating conductivity type layer between first alternating conductivity type layer and n++-type drain layer, third alternating conductivity type layer being doped more heavily than first alternating conductivity type layer.
摘要:
A super-junction semiconductor is provided that facilitates easy mass-production thereof, reducing the tradeoff relation between the on-resistance and the breakdown voltage, obtaining a high breakdown voltage and reducing the on-resistance to increase the current capacity thereof. The super-junction semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a first major surface and a second major surface facing in opposite to the first major surface; a layer with low electrical resistance on the side of the second major surface; a first alternating conductivity type layer on low resistance layer, and a second alternating conductivity type layer on the first alternating conductivity type layer. The first alternating conductivity type layer including regions of a first conductivity type and regions of a second conductivity type arranged alternately with each other. The second alternating conductivity type layer including regions of the first conductivity type and regions of the second conductivity type arranged alternately with each other. The spacing between the pn-junctions in the second alternating conductivity type layer is wider than the spacing between the pn-junctions in the first alternating conductivity type layer.