Patents by Inventor Carsten Schaeffer

Carsten Schaeffer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080001257
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor material, the semiconductor material including a base region and a field stop zone including a first side adjacent the base region and a second side opposite the first side. The field stop zone includes a first dopant implant and a second dopant implant. The first dopant implant has a first dopant concentration maximum and the second dopant implant has a second dopant concentration maximum with the first dopant concentration maximum being less than the second dopant concentration maximum, and being located closer to the second side than the second dopant concentration maximum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Schulze, Franz-Josef Niedernostheide, Helmut Strack, Carsten Schaeffer, Frank Pfirsch
  • Patent number: 7253475
    Abstract: Transistor cells (2) of a power transistor component are in each case provided with a gate conductor structure that forms a gate electrode (52) in sections and is connected via a gate cell terminal (43) to a gate wiring line (81) led to a gate terminal (44) of the power transistor component (1). The gate conductor structure (5) has a desired fusible section (51) with an increased resistance, which is arranged within a cavity. The resistance of the desired fusible section (51) can be set in such a way that, in the event of a current loading of the magnitude of a value that is typical of a defective gate dielectric (41), the gate conductor section (5) is interrupted in the desired fusible section (51) and the gate electrode (52) is disconnected from the gate wiring line (81). The power transistor component can be produced with high yield and has a smaller number of failures during application operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Carsten Schäffer
  • Patent number: 6815769
    Abstract: A trench power semiconductor component, in particular an IGBT, has an electrode (4) in a trench (3) that is laterally divided into a section (10) that serves as a gate and a section (11) that is connected to the source metallization (6). A method for making the trench power semiconductor component is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Pfirsch, Carsten Schäffer
  • Patent number: 6541818
    Abstract: A field effect transistor configuration with a trench gate electrode and a method for producing the same. An additional highly doped layer is provided in the body region under the source. The layer is used for influencing the conductibility of the source or the threshold voltage in the channel region. Breakdown currents and latch-up effects can thereby be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Pfirsch, Carsten Schäffer
  • Publication number: 20030060014
    Abstract: A field effect transistor configuration includes extending the source region along a trench and below the highly doped base region in a self-adjusting manner to increase the latch-up strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas Neidhart, Carsten Schaeffer, Guenter Schagerl
  • Patent number: 6297101
    Abstract: In a method is described for producing an MOS transistor structure with elevated body conductivity, a substrate layer is prepared and body regions are formed therein the body regions defining a main surface of the transistor structure and at least one channel region is also formed. Gate oxide and gate electrodes are formed in the region of the main surface, and source regions are formed that extend from the main surface into the body regions. An implantation of dopant of a first conductivity type occurs in at least a part of the channel region, this implantation dosage being controlled such that a re-doping of the body region into an area of the first conductivity type does not occur in the implantation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Carsten Schaeffer