Patents by Inventor Fu-Yuan Hsieh

Fu-Yuan Hsieh 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: 20100200912
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET with terrace gates and improved source-body contact structure is disclosed. When refilling the gate trenches, the deposited polysilicon layer is higher than the sidewalls of the trenches to be used as terrace gates of the MOSFET, and the improved source-body contact structure can enlarge the P+ area below to wrap the sidewalls and bottom of source-body contact within P body region to further enhance the avalanche capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100176448
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising trench MOSFET having trenched source-body contacts and trench Schottky rectifier having trenched anode contacts is disclosed. By employing the trenched contacts in trench MOSFET and trench Schottky rectifier, the integrated circuit is able to be shrunk to achieve low specific on-resistance for trench MOSFET, and low Vf and reverse leakage current for trench Schottky Rectifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100176445
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET with improved metal schemes is disclosed. The improved contact structure applies a buffer layer to minimize the bonding damage to semiconductor when bonding copper wire upon front source and gate metal without additional cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100176446
    Abstract: A trench semiconductor power device with integrated Schottky diode is disclosed. P+ regions and n+ source regions are alternately arranged in mesa and on top of trench sidewall along stripe source-body contact area between two adjacent trenches. By employing this structure, cell density increased remarkably without increasing contact resistance because top portion of gate trench sidewall is provided as source-body contact area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100171173
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET with improved source-body contact structure is disclosed. The improved contact structure can enlarge the P+ area below to wrap the sidewalls and bottom of source-body contact within P-body region to further enhance the avalanche capability. On the other hand, one of the embodiments disclosed a wider tungsten plug structure to connect source metal, which helps to further reduce the source contact resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: FU-YUAN HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20100127323
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET with trench source contact structure having copper wire bonding is disclosed. By employing the proposed structure, die size can be shrunk into 30%˜70% with high cell density, and the spreading resistance is significantly reduce without adding expensive thick metal layer as prior art. To further reduce fabricating cost, copper wire bonding is used with requirement of thick Al alloys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Tao Chung, Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100127324
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET with terrace gate is disclosed for self-aligned contact. When refilling the gate trenches, the deposited polysilicon layer is higher than the sidewalls of the trenches to be used as a terrace gate of the MOSFET. The source contact width is determined by mesa width between two adjacent trenches minus 2 times of the oxide thickness deposited on the mesa instead of contact mask width which is wider than silicon contact width. Therefore, the position of source contact is still unchanged even if the misalignment of trench mask happens. At the same time, by using terrace gates, the Rg is thus reduced because the terrace gate provides more polysilicon as gate material than the conventional trench gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100123185
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET device with embedded Schottky rectifier, Gate-Drain and Gate-Source diodes on single chip is formed to achieve device shrinkage and performance improvement. The present semiconductor devices achieve low Vf and reverse leakage current for embedded Schottky rectifier, have overvoltage protection for GS clamp diodes and avalanche protection for GD clamp diodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100090274
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET element with shallow trench contact is disclosed. This shallow trench contact structure has some advantages: blocking the P+ underneath trench contact from lateral diffusion to not touch to channel region when a larger trench contact CD is applied; avoiding the trench gate contact etching through poly and gate oxide when trench gate becomes shallow; making lower cost to refill the trench contact using Al alloys with good metal step coverage as the trench contact is shallower. The disclosed trench MOSFET element further includes an n* region around the bottom of gate trenches to reduce Rds. In some embodiment, the disclosed trench MOSFET provides a terrace gate to further reduce Rg and make self-aligned source contact; In some embodiment, the disclosed trench MOSFET comprises a P* area underneath said P+ region for avalanche energy improvement with lighter dose than said P+ region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100090270
    Abstract: A power MOS device includes double epitaxial (P/N) structure is disclosed for reduction of channel length and better avalanche capability. In some embodiments, the power MOS device further includes an arsenic Ion implantation area underneath each rounded trench bottom to further enhance breakdown voltage and further reduce Rds, and the concentration of said arsenic doped area is higher than that of N-type epitaxial layer. As the gate contact trench could be easily etched over to penetrate the gate oxide, which will lead to a shortage of tungsten plug filled in gate contact trench to epitaixial layer, a terrace poly gate is designed in a preferred embodiment of present invention. By using this method, the gate contact trench is lifted to avoid the shortage problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100072543
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a trench MOSFET with an etching buffer layer in a trench gate, comprising: a substrate which has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other and comprises at least a drain region, a gate region, and a source region which are constructed as a plurality of semiconductor cells with MOSFET effect; a plurality of gate trenches, each of which is extended downward from the first surface and comprises a gate oxide layer covered on a inner surface thereof and a gate conductive layer filled inside, comprised in the gate region; at least a drain metal layer formed on the second surface according to the drain region; at least a gate runner metal layer formed on the first surface according to the gate region; and at least a source metal layer formed on the first surface according to the source region; wherein the gate trenches distinguished into at least a second gate trench formed at a terminal of the source region and at least a first gate trenches wrapped in the sourc
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20100038711
    Abstract: A trenched MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) with a guard ring and a channel stop, including: a substrate including an epi layer region on the top thereof; a plurality of source and body regions formed in the epi layer; a metal layer including a plurality of metal layer regions which are connected to respective source and body, and gate regions forming metal connections of the MOSFET; a plurality of metal contact plugs connected to respective metal layer regions; a plurality of gate structure filled with polysilicon to form a plurality of trenched gates on top of epi layer; an insulating layer deposited on the epi layer formed underneath the metal layer with a plurality of metal contact holes therein for contacting respective source and body regions; a guard ring wrapping around the metal layer corresponding to the gate region at the termination; and a channel stop which is a heavier N-type doping region aside the guard ring at the termination; Wherein the contact plugs connecting to
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20090315104
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET with shallow trench structure is disclosed. The improved structure resolves the problem of degradation of BV caused by the As Ion Implantation in termination surface and no additional mask is needed which further enhance the avalanche capability and reduce the manufacture cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090315107
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET in parallel with trench junction barrier Schottky rectifier with trench contact structures is formed in single chip. The present invention solves the drawback brought by some prior arts, for example, the large area occupied by planar contact structure and high gate-source capacitance. As the electronic devices become more miniaturized, the trench contact structures of this invention are able to be shrunk to achieve low specific on-resistance of Trench MOSFET, and low Vf and reverse leakage current of the Schottky Rectifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090315103
    Abstract: A power MOS device includes shallow trench structure for reduction of gate charge. To counteract the increase of Rds may caused by decreasing the depth of trench, the power MOS device further includes an arsenic Ion Implantation area underneath each trench bottom when N+ red phosphorus substrate is applied, and the concentration of said arsenic doped area is higher than that of epitaxial layer. As the shallow trench is performed, the gate contact trench could be easily etched over to penetrate the gate oxide, which will lead to a shortage of tungsten plug filled in gate contact trench to epitaixial layer. To prevent from this problem, a terrace poly gate is designed in a preferred embodiment of present invention. By using this method, the gate contact trench is lifted to avoid the shortage problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090315106
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET in parallel with trench Schottky barrier rectifier is formed on a single substrate. The present invention solves the constrains brought by planar contact of Schottky, for example, the large area occupied by planar structure. As the size of present device is getting smaller and smaller, the trench Schottky structure of this invention is able to be shrink and, at the same time, to achieve low specific on-resistance. By applying a double epitaxial layer in trench Schottky barrier rectifier, the device performance is enhanced for lower Vf and lower reverse leakage current Ir is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090309130
    Abstract: The IGBT is described here that exhibits high breakdown voltage, low on-voltage together with high turn-off speed. The collector of IGBT is formed on the backside of the wafer which has n type float zone. Methods for the p-type collector is implemented by depositing a layer of BSG which is 0.05˜0.1 um on the backside of the wafer and removing it after short time deposition. A thin and high surface concentration p+ layer acts as P type collector of the IGBT is formed on the bottom surface of the wafer. The back metal electrode is sintered to form ohmic contact on the P type collector with high surface concentration. The hole injection efficiency is decreased with a thin layer p+ layer which hat means no P implantation is needed to form the collector and the speed performance of the IGBT is therefore improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Fu-Yuan Hsieh, CuiXia Wang, Ju Chen, Lin Xu
  • Publication number: 20090309097
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a testing device on wafer for monitoring vertical MOSFET on-resistance, formed on a substrate and the substrate comprising a first testing region; and a second testing region; wherein the first testing region and the second testing region are vertical MOSFETs respectively, which comprise at least a common gate region, at least a common drain region, and a plurality of source regions which are separated for each corresponding testing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20090309181
    Abstract: A trench Schottky barrier rectifier includes an cathode electrode at a face of a semiconductor substrate and an multiple epitaxial structure in drift region which in combination provide high blocking voltage capability with low reverse-biased leakage current and low forward voltage. The multiple structure of the drift region contains a concentration of first conductivity dopants therein which comprises two or three different uniform value from a Schottky rectifying junction formed between the anode electrode and the drift region. The thickness of the insulating region (e.g., SiO2) in the MOS-filled trenches is greater than 1000 ? to simultaneously inhibit field crowing and increase the breakdown voltage of the device. The multiple epi structure is preferably formed by epitaxial growth from the cathode region and doped in-situ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: FORCE MOS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7629634
    Abstract: A trenched MOSFET with trenched source contact, comprising: a semiconductor region, further comprising a silicon substrate, a epitaxial layer corresponding to the drain region of the trenched MOSFET, a base layer corresponding to the body region of the trenched MOSFET, and a source layer corresponding to the source region of the trenched MOSFET; an interlayer oxide film formed on the source layer; a front metal layer formed on a upper surface of the semiconductor region; a back metal layer formed on a lower surface of the semiconductor region; a plurality of trenched gates formed to reach the epitaxial layer through the source layer and the base layer, and is covered by the interlayer oxide film; and a plurality of source contact trenches formed to reach the base layer through the interlayer oxide film and the source layer, and is covered by the front metal layer; wherein the silicon substrate, the epitaxial layer, the base layer, and the source layer are stacked in sequence; and each of the source contact tr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Force MOS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh