And Gate Structure Lying On Slanted Or Vertical Surface Or Formed In Groove (e.g., Trench Gate Igbt) (epo) Patents (Class 257/E29.201)
  • Patent number: 8541836
    Abstract: Semiconductor memory devices having recessed access devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of forming the recessed access device includes forming a device recess in a substrate material that extends to a first depth in the substrate that includes a gate oxide layer in the recess. The device recess may be extended to a second depth that is greater that the first depth to form an extended portion of the device recess. A field oxide layer may be provided within an interior of the device recess that extends inwardly into the interior of the device recess and into the substrate. Active regions may be formed in the substrate that abut the field oxide layer, and a gate material may be deposited into the device recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt D. Beigel, Jigish D. Trivedi, Kevin G. Duesman
  • Patent number: 8530966
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a trench extending from a surface of a P-base layer to a surface of a P-well layer. The trench has a trench end portion defined in the surface of the P-well layer and in a direction in which the trench extends. The trench has first and second regions. The first region extends from the trench end portion to get into the surface of the P-base layer near a boundary between the P-base layer and the P-well layer. The second region extends in the surface of the P-base layer from an end portion of the first region. A trench width is greater in the first region than in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Narazaki, Hisaaki Yoshida, Kazuaki Higashi
  • Patent number: 8524558
    Abstract: This invention discloses a trenched metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) cell. The trenched MOSFET cell includes a trenched gate opened from a top surface of the semiconductor substrate surrounded by a source region encompassed in a body region above a drain region disposed on a bottom surface of a substrate. The trenched gate further includes at least two mutually insulated trench-filling segments each filled with materials of different work functions. In an exemplary embodiment, the trenched gate includes a polysilicon segment at a bottom portion of the trenched gate and a metal segment at a top portion of the trenched gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Sung-Shan Tai, YongZhong Hu
  • Patent number: 8492816
    Abstract: Solutions for forming a silicided deep trench decoupling capacitor are disclosed. In one aspect, a semiconductor structure includes a trench capacitor within a silicon substrate, the trench capacitor including: an outer trench extending into the silicon substrate; a dielectric liner layer in contact with the outer trench; a doped polysilicon layer over the dielectric liner layer, the doped polysilicon layer forming an inner trench within the outer trench; and a silicide layer over a portion of the doped polysilicon layer, the silicide layer separating at least a portion of the contact from at least a portion of the doped polysilicon layer; and a contact having a lower surface abutting the trench capacitor, a portion of the lower surface not abutting the silicide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Nakos, Edmund J. Sprogis, Anthony K. Stamper
  • Patent number: 8476133
    Abstract: A trenched field effect transistor is provided that includes (a) a semiconductor substrate, (b) a trench extending a predetermined depth into the semiconductor substrate, (c) a pair of doped source junctions, positioned on opposite sides of the trench, (d) a doped heavy body positioned adjacent each source junction on the opposite side of the source junction from the trench, the deepest portion of the heavy body extending less deeply into said semiconductor substrate than the predetermined depth of the trench, and (e) a doped well surrounding the heavy body beneath the heavy body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Sze-Ki Mo, Duc Chau, Steven Sapp, Izak Bencuya, Dean Edward Probst
  • Patent number: 8476125
    Abstract: Fabrication methods of a high frequency (sub-micron gate length) operation of AlInGaN/InGaN/GaN MOS-DHFET, and the HFET device resulting from the fabrication methods, are generally disclosed. The method of forming the HFET device generally includes a novel double-recess etching and a pulsed deposition of an ultra-thin, high-quality silicon dioxide layer as the active gate-insulator. The methods of the present invention can be utilized to form any suitable field effect transistor (FET), and are particular suited for forming high electron mobility transistors (HEMT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: University of South Carolina
    Inventors: M. Asif Khan, Vinod Adivarahan
  • Patent number: 8461004
    Abstract: This invention discloses semiconductor device that includes a top region and a bottom region with an intermediate region disposed between said top region and said bottom region with a controllable current path traversing through the intermediate region. The semiconductor device further includes a trench with padded with insulation layer on sidewalls extended from the top region through the intermediate region toward the bottom region wherein the trench includes randomly and substantially uniformly distributed nano-nodules as charge-islands in contact with a drain region below the trench for electrically coupling with the intermediate region for continuously and uniformly distributing a voltage drop through the current path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: François Hébert, Tao Feng
  • Patent number: 8455944
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes, on a semiconductor substrate, an active region surrounded by an STI region, a gate trench formed in one direction transverse to the active region, a gate insulating film formed on a side surface of the gate trench, an insulating film formed on a bottom of the gate trench and thicker than the gate insulating film, and a gate electrode having at least a part of the gate electrode formed in the gate trench. Portions of the semiconductor substrate present in the active region and located on both sides of the gate trench in an extension direction of the gate trench function as a source region and a drain region, respectively. A portion of the semiconductor substrate located between the side surface of the active region (the side of the STI region) and the side surface of the gate trench functions as a channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kujirai
  • Patent number: 8455951
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a rectangular shape, and a via hole that has an elliptic shape or a track shape having a linear portion in a long-axis direction of the track shape, a long axis of the elliptic shape or the track shape being arranged in a long-side direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kosaka
  • Patent number: 8450802
    Abstract: Laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor transistor for a radio frequency-power: amplifier comprising a drain finger (25,27) which drain finger is connected to a stack of one or more metal interconnect layers, (123,61,59,125) wherein a metal interconnect layer (123) of said stack is connected to a drain region (25) on the substrate, wherein said stack comprises a field plate (123, 125, 121) adapted to reduce the maximum magnitude of the electric field between the drain and the substrate and overlying the tip of said drain finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Adrianus Maria De Boet, Henk Jan Peuscher, Paul Bron, Stephan Jo Cecile Henri Theeuwen
  • Patent number: 8441069
    Abstract: A field effect transistor includes a gate trench extending into a semiconductor region. The gate trench has a recessed gate electrode disposed therein. A source region in the semiconductor region flanks each side of the gate trench. A conductive material fills an upper portion of the gate trench so as to make electrical contact with the source regions along upper sidewalls of the gate trench. The conductive material is insulated from the recessed gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Hamza Yilmaz, Daniel Calafut, Christopher Boguslaw Kocon, Steven P. Sapp, Dean E. Probst, Nathan L. Kraft, Thomas E. Grebs, Rodney S. Ridley, Gary M. Dolny, Bruce D. Marchant, Joseph A. Yedinak
  • Patent number: 8431989
    Abstract: This invention discloses a semiconductor power device that includes a plurality of power transistor cells surrounded by a trench opened in a semiconductor substrate. At least one of the cells constituting an active cell has a source region disposed next to a trenched gate electrically connecting to a gate pad and surrounding the cell. The trenched gate further has a bottom-shielding electrode filled with a gate material disposed below and insulated from the trenched gate. At least one of the cells constituting a source-contacting cell surrounded by the trench with a portion functioning as a source connecting trench is filled with the gate material for electrically connecting between the bottom-shielding electrode and a source metal disposed directly on top of the source connecting trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Anup Bhalla, Sik K. Lui
  • Patent number: 8426910
    Abstract: A semiconductor device for use in a power supply circuit has first and second MOSFETS. The source-drain path of one of the MOSFETS are coupled to the source-drain path of the other, and a load element is coupled to a connection node of the source-drain paths. The second MOSFET is formed on a semiconductor substrate with a Schottky barrier diode. First gate electrodes of the second MOSFET are formed in trenches in a first region of the semiconductor substrate, while second gate electrodes of the second MOSFET are formed in trenches in a second region of the semiconductor substrate. The first and second gate electrodes are electrically connected together. Portions of the Schottky barrier diode are formed between adjacent ones of the second gate electrodes. A center-to-center spacing between adjacent first gate electrodes is smaller than a center-to-center spacing between adjacent second gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shirai, Nobuyoshi Matsuura, Yoshito Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20130082302
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises: a substrate having a first and second surface; trenches provided on the second surface; a gate electrode provided in each trench; a first-conductive-type emitter layer provided on the second surface and contacting with the trenches; and an emitter electrode provided on the second surface to extend in a longitudinal direction of the trenches, the emitter electrode having a non-contact portion partially provided in the first-conductive-type emitter layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazutoshi NAKAMURA, Tsuneo Ogura
  • Patent number: 8409955
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes the following processes. A groove is formed in a semiconductor substrate. A gate insulating film is formed on an inside wall of the groove. A buried gate electrode is formed on the gate insulating film and on a bottom portion of the groove. A cap insulating film covering the buried gate electrode is formed in an upper portion of the groove. The cap insulating film has a top surface which is different in level from a top surface of the semiconductor substrate. A first inter-layer insulating film is formed on the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and on the top surface of the cap insulating film. The first inter-layer insulating film with a flat top surface fills a gap in level between the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and the top surface of the cap insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8384194
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device with improved avalanche capability structures is disclosed. By forming at least an avalanche capability enhancement doped regions with opposite conductivity type to epitaxial layer underneath an ohmic contact doped region which surrounds at least bottom of trenched contact filled with metal plug between two adjacent gate trenches, avalanche current is enhanced with the disclosed structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Force MOS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20130037851
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a base semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a cell portion including a diffusion region of a second conductivity type formed on a surface of the base semiconductor layer, a plurality of guard ring semiconductor layers of the second conductivity type formed on the surface of the base semiconductor layer, each guard ring semiconductor layer being formed to surround the cell portion, a plurality of first RESURF semiconductor layers of the first conductivity type provided on the surface of the base semiconductor layer inside the plurality of guard ring semiconductor layers and having a higher concentration than the base semiconductor layer and a second RESURF semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type provided on the surface of the base semiconductor layer between the outermost guard ring semiconductor layer and the EQPR semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Ryohei GEJO
  • Patent number: 8373226
    Abstract: In Trench-Gate Fin-FET, in order that the advantage which is exerted in Fin-FET can be sufficiently taken even if a transistor becomes finer and, at the same time, decreasing of on-current can be suppressed by saving a sufficiently large contact area in the active region, a fin width 162 of a channel region becomes smaller than a width 161 of an active region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Taketani
  • Patent number: 8372698
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a modified recess channel gate includes active regions defined by a device isolation layer and arranged at regular intervals on a semiconductor substrate, each active region extending in a major axis and a minor axis direction, a trench formed in each active region, the trench including a stepped bottom surface in the minor axis direction of the active region, and a recess gate formed in the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: 8368126
    Abstract: Remote contacts to the polysilicon regions of a trench metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) barrier Schottky (TMBS) device, as well as to the polysilicon regions of a MOS field effect transistor (MOSFET) section and of a TMBS section in a monolithically integrated TMBS and MOSFET (SKYFET) device, are employed. The polysilicon is recessed relative to adjacent mesas. Contact of the source metal to the polysilicon regions of the TMBS section is made through an extension of the polysilicon to outside the active region of the TMBS section. This change in the device architecture relieves the need to remove all of the oxides from both the polysilicon and silicon mesa regions of the TMBS section prior to the contact step. As a consequence, encroachment of contact metal into the sidewalls of the trenches in a TMBS device, or in a SKYFET device, is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Vishay-Siliconix
    Inventors: Deva N. Pattanayak, Kyle Terrill, Sharon Shi, Misha Lee, Yuming Bai, Kam Lui, Kuo-In Chen
  • Patent number: 8357971
    Abstract: A Trench gate MOS field-effect transistor having a narrow, lightly doped, region extending from a channel accommodating region (3) of same conductivity type immediately adjacent the trench sidewall. The narrow region may be self-aligned to the top of a lower polysilicon shield region in the trench or may extend the complete depth of the trench. The narrow region advantageously relaxes the manufacturing tolerances, which otherwise require close alignment of the upper polysilicon trench gate to the body-drain junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Peake, Philip Rutter, Christopher Martin Rogers, Miron Drobnis, Andrew Butler
  • Patent number: 8354713
    Abstract: In a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a MISFET of trench gate structure, a trench is formed from a major surface of a semiconductor layer of first conductivity type which serves as a drain region, in a depth direction of the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film including a thermal oxide film and a deposited film is formed over the internal surface of the trench, and after a gate electrode has been formed in the trench, impurities are introduced into the semiconductor substrate of first conductivity type to form a semiconductor region of second conductivity type which serves as a channel forming region, and impurities are introduced into the semiconductor region of second conductivity type to form the semiconductor region of first conductivity type which serves as a source region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignees: Renesas Electronics Corporation, Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sumito Numazawa, Yoshito Nakazawa, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Satoshi Kudo, Yasuo Imai, Sakae Kubo, Takashi Shigematsu, Akihiro Ohnishi, Kozo Uesawa, Kentaro Oishi
  • Patent number: 8350366
    Abstract: A power semiconductor component having a pn junction, a body with a first basic conductivity, a well-like region with a second conductivity which is arranged horizontally centrally in the body, has a first two-level doping profile and has a first penetration depth from the first main surface into the body. In addition, this power semiconductor component has an edge structure which is arranged between the well-like region and the edge of the power semiconductor component and which comprises a plurality of field rings with a single-level doping profile, a second conductivity and a second penetration depth, wherein the first penetration depth is no more than about 50% of the second penetration depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Semikron Elektronik GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Bernhard Koenig
  • Patent number: 8344415
    Abstract: A semiconductor component is disclosed. One embodiment provides a semiconductor body having a cell region with at least one zone of a first conduction type and at least one zone of a second conduction type in a rear side. A drift zone of the first conduction type in the cell region is provided. The drift zone contains at least one region through which charge carriers flow in an operating mode of the semiconductor component in one polarity and charge carriers do not flow in an operating mode of the semiconductor component in an opposite polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Holger Ruething, Frank Pfirsch, Armin Willmeroth, Frank Hille, Hans-Joachim Schulze
  • Patent number: 8330214
    Abstract: The present inventors have realized that manufacturability plays into optimization of power semiconductor devices in some surprising new ways. If the process window is too narrow, the maximum breakdown voltage will not be achieved due to doping variations and the like normally seen in device fabrication. Thus, among other teachings, the present application describes some ways to improve the process margin, for a given breakdown voltage specification, by actually reducing the maximum breakdown voltage. In one class of embodiments, this is done by introducing a vertical gradation in the density of fixed electrostatic charge, or in the background doping of the drift region, or both. Several techniques are disclosed for achieving this.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: MaxPower Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Paul, Mohamed N. Darwish
  • Patent number: 8330213
    Abstract: Power devices using refilled trenches with permanent charge at or near their sidewalls. These trenches extend vertically into a drift region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: MaxPower Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed N. Darwish, Jun Zeng, Richard A. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 8319280
    Abstract: Semiconductor memory devices having recessed access devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of forming the recessed access device includes forming a device recess in a substrate material that extends to a first depth in the substrate that includes a gate oxide layer in the recess. The device recess may be extended to a second depth that is greater that the first depth to form an extended portion of the device recess. A field oxide layer may be provided within an interior of the device recess that extends inwardly into the interior of the device recess and into the substrate. Active regions may be formed in the substrate that abut the field oxide layer, and a gate material may be deposited into the device recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt D. Beigel, Jigish D. Trivedi, Kevin G. Duesman
  • Patent number: 8319314
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a first base layer of a first conductivity type; a plurality of second base layers of a second conductivity type, provided on a part of a first surface of the first base layer; trenches formed on each side of the second base layers, and formed to be deeper than the second base layers; an emitter layer formed along the trench on a surface of the second base layers; a collector layer of the second conductivity type, provided on a second surface of the first base layer opposite to the first surface; an insulating film formed on an inner wall of the trench, the insulating film being thicker on a bottom of the trench than on a side surface of the trench; a gate electrode formed within the trench, and isolated from the second base layers and the emitter layer by the insulating film; and a space section provided between the second base layers adjacent to each other, the space section being deeper than the second base layers and being electrically isolated from the emitter layer and t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuneo Ogura, Masakazu Yamaguchi, Tomoki Inoue, Hideaki Ninomiya, Koichi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20120267680
    Abstract: A stabilizing plate portion is formed in a region of a first main surface lying between first and second insulated gate field effect transistor portions. The stabilizing plate portion includes a first stabilizing plate arranged closest to the first insulated gate field effect transistor portion and a second stabilizing plate arranged closest to the second insulated gate field effect transistor portion. An emitter electrode is electrically connected to an emitter region of each of the first and second insulated gate field effect transistor portions, electrically connected to each of the first and second stabilizing plates, and arranged on the entire first main surface lying between the first and second stabilizing plates, with an insulating layer being interposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Oya, Katsumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8288819
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate having a bulb-type recessed region, forming a gate insulating layer over the bulb-type recessed region and the substrate, and forming a gate conductive layer over the gate insulating layer. The gate conductive layer fills the bulb-type recessed region. The gate conductive layer includes two or more conductive layers and a discontinuous interface between the conductive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Soo Kim, Hong Seon Yang, Se Aug Jang, Seung Ho Pyi, Kwon Hong, Heung Jae Cho, Kwan Yong Lim, Min Gyu Sung, Seung Ryong Lee, Tae Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 8242557
    Abstract: The invention provides a trench gate type transistor in which the gate capacitance is reduced, the crystal defect is prevented and the gate breakdown voltage is enhanced. Trenches are formed in an N? type semiconductor layer. A uniformly thick silicon oxide film is formed on the bottom of each of the trenches and near the bottom, being round at corner portions. A silicon oxide film is formed on the upper portion of the sidewall of each of the trenches, which is thinner than the silicon oxide film and round at corner portions. Gate electrodes are formed from inside the trenches onto the outside thereof. The thick silicon oxide film reduces the gate capacitance, and the thin silicon oxide film on the upper portion provides good transistor characteristics. Furthermore, with the round corner portions, the crystal defect does not easily occur, and the gate electric field is dispersed to enhance the gate breakdown voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Satoru Shimada, Yoshikazu Yamaoka, Kazunori Fujita, Tomonori Tabe
  • Patent number: 8217420
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power semiconductor device includes an IGBT region, first and second electrodes, and a first conductivity-type second semiconductor layer. The region functions as an IGBT element. The first electrode is formed in a surface of a second conductivity-type collector layer opposite to a first conductivity-type first semiconductor layer in the region. The second electrode is connected onto a first conductivity-type emitter layer and a second conductivity-type base layer in a surface of the first conductivity-type base layer and insulated from a gate electrode in the region. The first conductivity-type second semiconductor layer extends from the surface of the first conductivity-type base layer to the first conductivity-type first semiconductor layer around the IGBT region, and connected to the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Tsuneo Ogura
  • Patent number: 8207596
    Abstract: An insulation structure is provided. The insulation structure includes a deep trench filled with silicon and disposed in a substrate, a first oxide layer serving as the insulation structure and disposed on the surface of the silicon in the deep trench, a first silicon layer disposed on the first oxide layer, a gate disposed on the first silicon layer and a shallow trench isolation adjacent to the deep trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Hon-Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 8193578
    Abstract: A power supply circuit includes first and second switching MOSFETS. A semiconductor device, including the second switching MOSFET, has a plurality of transistor cell regions disposed in a semiconductor substrate. A source electrode of the second MOSFET is disposed over a main surface of the semiconductor substrate and is in contact with a top surface of a source region in each of the plurality of transistor cell regions. A drain electrode of the second MOSFET is disposed over a back surface of the semiconductor substrate and is electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate. A Schottky cell region is disposed between the plurality of transistor cell regions in the semiconductor substrate. The source electrode is in contact with a part of the main surface of the semiconductor so as to form a Schottky junction in the Schottky cell region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Shirai, Nobuyoshi Matsuura, Yoshito Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 8193564
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a substrate, a drift layer located on a first surface of the substrate, a base region located on the drift layer, a source region located on the base region, a trench penetrating the source region and the base region to the drift layer, a channel layer located in the trench, a gate insulating layer located on the channel layer, a gate electrode located on the gate insulating layer, a source electrode electrically coupled with the source region and the base region, a drain electrode located on a second surface of the substrate, and a deep layer. The deep layer is located under the base region, extends to a depth deeper than the trench and is formed along an approximately normal direction to a sidewall of the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro Suzuki, Eiichi Okuno, Hideo Matsuki
  • Patent number: 8178947
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device in which an amount of fluctuations in output capacitance and feedback capacitance is reduced. In a trench-type insulated gate semiconductor device, a width of a portion of an electric charge storage layer in a direction along which a gate electrode and a dummy gate are aligned is set to be at most 1.4 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Yoshifumi Tomomatsu
  • Patent number: 8173506
    Abstract: A method of forming a buried gate electrode prevents voids from being formed in a silicide layer of the gate electrode. The method begins by forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate, forming a conformal gate oxide layer on the semiconductor in which the trench has been formed, forming a first gate electrode layer on the gate oxide layer, forming a silicon layer on the first gate electrode layer to fill the trench. Then, a portion of the first gate electrode layer is removed to form a recess which exposed a portion of a lateral surface of the silicon layer. A metal layer is then formed on the semiconductor substrate including on the silicon layer. Next, the semiconductor substrate is annealed while the lateral surface of the silicon layer is exposed to form a metal silicide layer on the silicon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-ji Jung, Hyun-soo Kim, Byung-hee Kim, Dae-yong Kim, Woong-hee Sohn, Kwang-jin Moon, Jang-hee Lee, Min-sang Song, Eun-ok Lee
  • Patent number: 8164162
    Abstract: A structure of power semiconductor device integrated with clamp diodes sharing same gate metal pad is disclosed. This improved structure can prevent the degradation of breakdown voltage due to electric field in termination region blocked by polysilicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Force MOS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8154075
    Abstract: A split gate type nonvolatile semiconductor memory device having a FinFET structure includes a semiconductor substrate, parallel trenches on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and select and memory gate electrodes perpendicular to the trenches. While either the select or the memory gate electrodes are formed prior to the other gate electrodes, each remaining gate electrode is formed adjacent to a side wall of each of the gate electrodes. The semiconductor memory device includes source/drain regions each formed between each pair of the select gate electrodes and between each pair of the memory gate electrodes in protruding portions between each pair of the trenches. A difference between heights of the select gate electrodes and the memory gate electrodes is equal to or greater than a difference between heights of insulation layers formed on the bottom of each of the trenches and the source/drain regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8143125
    Abstract: A method for forming a trench-gate FET includes the following steps. A plurality of trenches is formed extending into a semiconductor region. A gate dielectric is formed extending along opposing sidewalls of each trench and over mesa surfaces of the semiconductor region between adjacent trenches. A gate electrode is formed in each trench isolated from the semiconductor region by the gate dielectric. Well regions of a second conductivity type are formed in the semiconductor region. Source regions of the first conductivity type are formed in upper portions of the well regions. After forming the source regions, a salicide layer is formed over the gate electrode in each trench abutting portions of the gate dielectric. The gate dielectric prevents formation of the salicide layer over the mesa surfaces of the semiconductor region between adjacent trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Purtell, James J. Murphy
  • Patent number: 8143124
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a charge control trench and an active control trench with a thick oxide bottom includes forming a drift region, a well region extending above the drift region, an active trench extending through the well region and into the drift region, a charge control trench extending deeper into the drift region than the active trench, an oxide film that fills the active trench, the charge control trench and covers a top surface of the substrate, an electrode in the active trench, and source regions. The method also includes etching the oxide film off the top surface of the substrate and inside the active trench to leave a substantially flat layer of thick oxide having a target thickness at the bottom of the active trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok Challa, Alan Elbanhawy, Dean E. Probst, Steven P. Sapp, Peter H. Wilson, Babak S. Sani, Becky Losee, Robert Herrick, James J. Murphy, Gordon K. Madson, Bruce D. Marchant, Christopher B. Kocon, Debra S. Woolsey
  • Patent number: 8138542
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including an n-type semiconductor substrate, a p-type channel region and a junction layer provided between the n-type semiconductor substrate and the p-type channel region is disclosed. The junction layer has n-type drift regions and p-type partition regions alternately arranged in the direction in parallel with the principal surface of the n-type semiconductor substrate. The p-type partition region forming the junction layer is made to have a higher impurity concentration than the n-type drift region. This enables the semiconductor device to have an enhanced breakdown voltage and, at the same time, have a reduced on-resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koh Yoshikawa, Akio Sugi, Kouta Takahashi, Manabu Takei, Haruo Nakazawa, Noriyuki Iwamuro
  • Patent number: 8129245
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing power semiconductor devices include forming an epitaxial and dielectric layer, patterning and etching the dielectric layer, forming a first oxide layer, forming a first conductive layer on top of the first oxide layer, etching the first conductive layer away inside an active trench, forming a second oxide layer and second conductive layer. The second conductive layer does not extend completely over the first conductive layer in a first region outside of the active trench. The methods further include forming a third oxide layer over the second conductive layer, etching a first opening through the third oxide layer exposing the second conductive layer outside the active trench, etching a second opening through the second oxide layer outside the active trench in the first region exposing the first conductive layer but not the second conductive layer, and filling the first and second openings with conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Yedinak, Nathan L. Kraft, Christopher B. Kocon, Richard Stokes
  • Patent number: 8129818
    Abstract: The present invention is a power device includes, a first conductive type semiconductor substrate, a second conductive type base region formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second conductive type collector region formed on a rear surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first conductive type emitter region formed on a surface of the base region, a trench gate formed via a gate insulating film in a first trench groove formed in the base region so as to penetrate the emitter region, a dent formed in the base region in proximity to the emitter region, a second conductive type contact layer formed on an inner wall of the dent, having a higher dopant density than that of the base region, a dummy trench formed via a dummy trench insulating film in a second trench groove formed at a bottom of the dent, and an emitter electrode electrically connected to the emitter region, the contact layer and the dummy trench, wherein the trench gate and the dummy trench reach the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Tooi, Tetsujiro Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 8120103
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a plurality of active pillars formed over the substrate; bulb-type trenches, each of the bulb-type trenches formed inside the substrate between the active pillars; buried bit lines, each of the buried bit lines being formed on a sidewall of a respective one of the bulb-type trenches; and vertical gates, each of the vertical gates being formed to surround a sidewall of a respective one of the active pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Ki-Ro Hong
  • Patent number: 8119486
    Abstract: A method according to example embodiments includes forming isolation regions in a substrate, the isolation regions defining active regions. Desired regions of the active regions and the isolation regions are removed, thereby forming recess channel trenches to a desired depth. The recess channel trenches are fog to have a first region in contact with the active regions and a second region in contact with the isolation regions. A width of a bottom surface of the recess channel trenches is less than that of a top surface thereof. The active regions and the isolation regions are annealed to uplift the bottom surface of the recess channel trenches. An area of the bottom surface of the first region is increased. A depth of the bottom surface of the first region is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Pil Kim, Eun-Ae Chung, Gab-Jin Nam, Hee-Don Hwang, Ji-Young Min
  • Patent number: 8097915
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell having a respective transistor. The transistor comprises a transistor body of a first conductivity type, a drain area and a source area each having a second conductivity type, wherein said drain area and source area are embedded in the transistor body on a first surface of said transistor body, a gate structure having a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode. Said gate structure is arranged between said drain area and said source area. An emitter area of said first conductivity type is provided wherein said emitter area is arranged on top of said drain area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Qimonda AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rösner, Franz Hofmann, Michael Specht, Martin Städele, Johannes Luyken
  • Patent number: 8097910
    Abstract: The invention includes a semiconductor structure having U-shaped transistors formed by etching a semiconductor substrate. In an embodiment, the source/drain regions of the transistors are provided at the tops of pairs of pillars defined by crossing trenches in the substrate. One pillar is connected to the other pillar in the pair by a ridge that extends above the surrounding trenches. The ridge and lower portions of the pillars define U-shaped channels on opposite sides of the U-shaped structure, facing a gate structure in the trenches on those opposite sides, forming a two sided surround transistor. Optionally, the space between the pillars of a pair is also filled with gate electrode material to define a three-sided surround gate transistor. One of the source/drain regions of each pair extending to a digit line and the other extending to a memory storage device, such as a capacitor. The invention also includes methods of forming semiconductor structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Werner Juengling
  • Patent number: 8097917
    Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a silicon carbide substrate, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a third semiconductor layer; a trench penetrating the second and the third semiconductor layers to reach the first semiconductor layer; a channel layer on a sidewall and a bottom of the trench; an oxide film on the channel layer; a gate electrode on the oxide film; a first electrode connecting to the third semiconductor layer; and a second electrode connecting to the silicon carbide substrate. A position of a boundary between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer is disposed lower than an utmost lowest position of the oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Malhan Rajesh Kumar, Yuichi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8093655
    Abstract: An integrated circuit including a field effect controllable trench transistor having two-control electrodes is disclosed. One embodiment provides a trench having a first control electrode and a second control electrode. A first electrical line is provided in an edge structure for electrically contact-connecting second control electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Franz Hirler, Maximilian Roesch, Ralf Siemieniec