Semiconductor Device Having an Optical Device Degradation Sensor

    公开(公告)号:US20230121426A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-20

    申请号:US17502335

    申请日:2021-10-15

    摘要: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor body; an electrical device formed in an active region of the semiconductor body, the active region including an interface between the semiconductor body and an insulating material; and a sensor having a bandwidth tuned to at least part of an energy spectrum of light emitted by carrier recombination at the interface when the electrical device is driven between accumulation and inversion, wherein an intensity of the emitted light is proportional to a density of charge trapping states at the interface, wherein the sensor is configured to output a signal that is proportional to the intensity of the sensed light. Corresponding methods of monitoring and characterizing the semiconductor device and a test apparatus are also described.

    Transistor device with a varying gate runner resistivity per area

    公开(公告)号:US11417747B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-16

    申请号:US17072602

    申请日:2020-10-16

    摘要: In an example, a transistor device is provided. The transistor device includes a plurality of transistor cells each including a gate electrode and each at least partially integrated in a semiconductor body that includes a wide bandgap semiconductor material. The transistor device includes a gate pad arranged on top of the semiconductor body, and a plurality of gate runners each arranged on top of the semiconductor body and each connected to gate electrodes of at least some of the plurality of transistor cells. Each gate runner of the plurality of gate runners has a longitudinal direction, and at least one of the gate runners includes at least a section in which a resistivity per area increases in the longitudinal direction as a distance to the gate pad along the gate runner increases.

    SiC semiconductor device with offset in trench bottom

    公开(公告)号:US10553685B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-04

    申请号:US15959661

    申请日:2018-04-23

    IPC分类号: H01L29/16 H01L29/66 H01L29/78

    摘要: A semiconductor device includes a trench extending from a first surface into a SiC semiconductor body. The trench has a first sidewall, a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall, and a trench bottom. A gate electrode is arranged in the trench and is electrically insulated from the SiC semiconductor body by a trench dielectric. A body region of a first conductivity type adjoins the first sidewall. A shielding structure of the first conductivity type adjoins at least a portion of the second sidewall and the trench bottom. A first section of the trench bottom and a second section of the trench bottom are offset to one another by a vertical offset along a vertical direction extending from the first surface to a second surface of the SiC semiconductor body opposite to the first surface.