Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a first diode, a second diode, a clamp circuit and a third diode. The first diode is coupled between an input/output (I/O) pad and a first voltage terminal. The second diode is coupled with the first diode, the I/O pad and a second voltage terminal. The clamp circuit is coupled between the first voltage terminal and the second voltage terminal. The second diode and the clamp circuit are configured to direct a first part of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) current flowing between the I/O pad and the first voltage terminal. The third diode, coupled to the first voltage terminal, and the second diode include a first semiconductor structure configured to direct a second part of the ESD current flowing between the I/O pad and the first voltage terminal.
Abstract:
A biased-transistor-module comprising: a module-input-terminal; a module-output-terminal; a reference-terminal; a module-supply-terminal configured to receive a supply voltage; a module-reference-voltage-terminal configured to receive a module reference voltage; a main-transistor having a main-control-terminal, a main-first-conduction-channel-terminal and a main-second-conduction-channel-terminal, wherein the main-first-conduction-channel-terminal is connected to the module-output-terminal, and the main-second-conduction-channel-terminal is connected to the reference-terminal, and the main-control-terminal is connected to an input-signal-node, wherein the input-signal-node is connected to the module-input-terminal; and a bias-circuit. The bias-circuit comprises: a first-bias-transistor; a first-bias-resistor; a second-bias-transistor; and a second-bias-resistor.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device comprises a vertical power device, such as a superjunction MOSFET, an IGBT, a diode, and the like, and a surface device that comprises one or more lateral devices that are electrically active along a top surface of the semiconductor device.
Abstract:
The present invention achieves the enhancement of a manufacturing yield factor and the reduction of manufacturing cost in a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device having a hetero junction bipolar transistor (HBT), a Schottky diode and a resistance element. The present invention is directed to the manufacturing method of a semiconductor device in which respective semiconductor layers which become a sub collector layer, a collector layer, a base layer, a wide gap emitter layer and an emitter layer are sequentially formed over one surface of a semiconductor substrate and, thereafter, respective semiconductor layers are processed to form the hetero junction bipolar transistor, the Schottky diode and the resistance element in a monolithic manner. An emitter electrode of the hetero junction bipolar transistor, a Schottky electrode of the Schottky diode and a resistance film of the resistance element are simultaneously formed using a same material (for example, WSiN). Accordingly, the man-hours can be reduced and the manufacturing cost of the semiconductor device can be reduced.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an electronic device provided with an electronic component which comprises an integrated circuit arrangement which has a semiconducting substrate, active components, and passive components such as capacitors with high and with low capacitance values and/or resistors. The invention further relates to a transmitter, a receiver, an electronic component, a peripheral circuit, a power supply circuit, a filter module, and an integrated circuit arrangement.
Abstract:
The present invention achieves the enhancement of a manufacturing yield factor and the reduction of manufacturing cost in a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device having a hetero junction bipolar transistor (HBT), a Schottky diode and a resistance element. The present invention is directed to the manufacturing method of a semiconductor device in which respective semiconductor layers which become a sub collector layer, a collector layer, a base layer, a wide gap emitter layer and an emitter layer are sequentially formed over one surface of a semiconductor substrate and, thereafter, respective semiconductor layers are processed to form the hetero junction bipolar transistor, the Schottky diode and the resistance element in a monolithic manner. An emitter electrode of the hetero junction bipolar transistor, a Schottky electrode of the Schottky diode and a resistance film of the resistance element are simultaneously formed using a same material (for example, WSiN). Accordingly, the man-hours can be reduced and the manufacturing cost of the semiconductor device can be reduced.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a polycrystalline silicon conducting structure (e.g., a resistor) whose resistance value is controlled, and can be less variable and less dependent on temperature with respect to any resistant value, and a process of producing the same. Use is made of at least a two-layer structure including a first polycrystalline silicon layer of large crystal grain size and a second polycrystalline silicon layer of small crystal grain size, and the first polycrystalline silicon layer has a positive temperature dependence of resistance while the second polycrystalline layer has a negative temperature dependence of resistance, or vice versa. Moreover, the polycrystalline silicon layer of large grain size can be formed by high dose ion implantation and annealing, or by depositing the layers by chemical vapor deposition at different temperatures so as to form large-grain and small-grain layers.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a substrate of a first semiconductor type doped by a first impurity element with a first impurity density, the first semiconductor type being one of p-type and n-type semiconductors, a conductive layer formed on a back surface of the substrate, a first layer of a second semiconductor type doped by a second impurity element different from the first impurity element and formed on a front surface of the substrate, the second semiconductor type being the other of the p-type and n-type semiconductors and the first layer having a second impurity density lower than the first impurity density, a second layer of the first semiconductor type formed on the first layer for forming circuit elements therein, a first region of the second semiconductor type extending from a top surface of the first layer and reaching a top surface of the second layer, and a second region of the first semiconductor type extending from a top surface of the substrate and reaching the top surface of said second layer, the first layer and the second region forming a conductive path for supplying a power source voltage to the circuit elements in the second layer from the back surface of the substrate.
Abstract:
Method for making a semiconductor structure having isolated islands of semiconductor material from a semiconductor body by forming a first layer of insulating material on a surface of the body having a first support structure upon the layer of insulating material and then forming grooves in the semiconductor body which extend to the layer of insulating material formed from the semiconductor body. A second layer of insulating material is then formed on the exposed surfaces of the islands. A second support structure is then formed on the second layer of insulating material. Thereafter, the first support structure is removed and circuit devices are fabricated in the isolated islands.
Abstract:
After desired impurities are diffused into a semiconductor substrate through a masking layer of SiO.sub.2 formed thereupon so as to form a semiconductor device, the masking layer is completely removed therefrom and thereafter more than two thin layers of different insulating materials are deposited upon the cleaned surface of the semiconductor device thus providing a method of forming a semiconductor device with an improved passivation film thereon. Said insulating materials are selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, a silicon nitride, alumina, boro-silicate glass, phospho-silicate glass, alumino-silicate glass, alumino-phospho-silicate glass and alumino-boro-silicate glass, and the thickness of each thin layer is in the range of 300 to 1500 angstroms and the first layer is silicon dioxide.