Patents by Inventor Mario Giuseppe Saggio

Mario Giuseppe Saggio 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).

  • Patent number: 7713853
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing electronic devices on a semiconductor substrate with wide band gap that includes the steps of: forming a screening structure on the semiconductor substrate to include at least a dielectric layer that leaves a plurality of areas of the semiconductor substrate exposed, carrying out at least a ion implantation of a first type of dopant in the semiconductor substrate to form at least a first implanted region, carrying out at least a ion implantation of a second type of dopant in the semiconductor substrate to form at least a second implanted region inside the at least a first implanted region, carrying out an activation thermal process of the first type and second type of dopant with low thermal temperature suitable to complete the formation of the at least first and second implanted regions without diffusing the at least first and at least second type dopants in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Ferrucio Frisina, Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Angelo Magri
  • Patent number: 7700970
    Abstract: An integrated power device includes a semiconductor body of a first conductivity type comprising a first region accommodating a start-up structure, and a second region accommodating a power structure. The two structures are separated from one another by an edge structure and are arranged in a mirror configuration with respect to a symmetry line of the edge structure. Both the start-up structure and the power structure are obtained using MOSFET devices. Both MOSFET devices are multi-drain MOSFET devices, having mesh regions, source regions and gate regions separated from one another. In addition, both MOSFET devices have drain regions delimited by columns that repeat periodically at a fixed distance. Between the two MOSFET devices there is an electrical insulation of at least 25 V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Antonino Longo Minnolo, Rosalia Germana'
  • Publication number: 20100093136
    Abstract: An embodiment of a process for manufacturing a semiconductor power device envisages the steps of: providing a body made of semiconductor material having a first top surface; forming an active region with a first type of conductivity in the proximity of the first top surface and inside an active portion of the body; and forming an edge-termination structure. The edge-termination structure is formed by: a ring region having the first type of conductivity and a first doping level, set within a peripheral edge portion of the body and electrically connected to the active region; and a guard region, having the first type of conductivity and a second doping level, higher than the first doping level, set in the proximity of the first top surface and connecting the active region to the ring region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics, S.r.l.
    Inventors: Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Domenico Murabito, Ferruccio Frisina
  • Publication number: 20090179263
    Abstract: An embodiment of a process for manufacturing a power semiconductor device envisages the steps of: providing a body of semiconductor material having a top surface and having a first conductivity; forming columnar regions having a second type of conductivity within the body of semiconductor material, and surface extensions of the columnar regions above the top surface; and forming doped regions having the second type of conductivity, in the proximity of the top surface and in contact with the columnar regions. The doped regions are formed at least partially within the surface extensions of the columnar regions; the surface extensions and the doped regions have a non-planar surface pattern, in particular with a substantially V-shaped groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alfio Guarnera, Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Ferruccio Frisina
  • Publication number: 20090159969
    Abstract: Process for manufacturing a semiconductor power device, wherein a trench is formed in a semiconductor body having a first conductivity type; the trench is annealed for shaping purpose; and the trench is filled with semiconductor material via epitaxial growth so as to obtain a first column having a second conductivity type. The epitaxial growth is performed by supplying a gas containing silicon and a gas containing dopant ions of the second conductivity type in presence of a halogenide gas and occurs with uniform distribution of the dopant ions. The flow of the gas containing dopant ions is varied according to a linear ramp during the epitaxial growth; in particular, in the case of selective growth of the semiconductor material in the presence of a hard mask, the flow decreases; in the case of non-selective growth, in the absence of hard mask, the flow increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Simona Lorenti, Cateno Marco Camalleri, Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Ferruccio Frisina
  • Publication number: 20090001460
    Abstract: A process manufactures a multi-drain power electronic device on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type and includes: forming a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type on the substrate, forming a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type on the first semiconductor layer, forming, in the second semiconductor layer, a first plurality of implanted regions of the first conductivity type using a first implant dose, forming, above the second semiconductor layer, a superficial semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, forming in the surface semiconductor layer body regions of the second conductivity type, thermally diffusing the implanted regions to form a plurality of electrically continuous implanted column regions along the second semiconductor layer, the plurality of implanted column regions delimiting a plurality of column regions of the second conductivity type aligned with the body regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Ferruccio Frisina, Simone Rascuna
  • Publication number: 20080224204
    Abstract: A process manufactures a multi-drain power electronic device integrated on a semiconductor substrate of a first type of conductivity whereon a drain semiconductor layer is formed. The process includes: forming a first semiconductor epitaxial layer of the first type of conductivity of a first value of resistivity forming the drain epitaxial layer on the semiconductor substrate, forming first sub-regions of a second type of conductivity by means of a first selective implant step with a first implant dose, forming second sub-regions of the first type of conductivity by means of a second implant step with a second implant dose, forming a surface semiconductor layer wherein body regions of the second type of conductivity are formed being aligned with the first sub-regions, carrying out a thermal diffusion process so that the first sub-regions form a single electrically continuous column region being aligned and in electric contact with the body regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Ferruccio Frisina, Simone Rascuna
  • Publication number: 20080185593
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a vertical power MOS transistor on a wide band gap semiconductor substrate having a wide band gap superficial semiconductor layer, including the steps of forming a screening structure on the superficial semiconductor layer that leaves a plurality of areas of the superficial semiconductor layer exposed, carrying out at least a first ion implantation of a first type of dopant in the superficial semiconductor layer for forming at least one deep implanted region, carrying out at least a second ion implantation of the first type of dopant in the superficial semiconductor layer for forming at least one implanted body region of the MOS transistor aligned with the deep implanted region, carrying out at least one ion implantation of a second type of dopant in the superficial semiconductor layer for forming at least an implanted source region of the MOS transistor inside the at least one implanted body region, and a low budget activation thermal process of the first and second dopant types sui
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Ferruccio Frisina
  • Publication number: 20080185594
    Abstract: A method manufactures a vertical power MOS transistor on a semiconductor substrate comprising a first superficial semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, comprising: forming trench regions in the first semiconductor layer, filling in said trench regions with a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, to form semiconductor portions of the second conductivity type contained in the first semiconductor layer, carrying out an ion implantation of a first dopant type in the semiconductor portions for forming respective implanted body regions of said second conductivity type, carrying out an ion implantation of a second dopant type in one of the implanted body regions for forming an implanted source region of the first conductivity type inside one of the body regions, carrying out an activation thermal process of the first and second dopant types with low thermal budget suitable to complete said formation of the body and source regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Ferruccio Frisina, Mario Giuseppe Saggio
  • Publication number: 20080169517
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing electronic devices on a semiconductor substrate with wide band gap that includes the steps of: forming a screening structure on the semiconductor substrate to include at least a dielectric layer that leaves a plurality of areas of the semiconductor substrate exposed, carrying out at least a ion implantation of a first type of dopant in the semiconductor substrate to form at least a first implanted region, carrying out at least a ion implantation of a second type of dopant in the semiconductor substrate to form at least a second implanted region inside the at least a first implanted region, carrying out an activation thermal process of the first type and second type of dopant with low thermal temperature suitable to complete the formation of the at least first and second implanted regions without diffusing the at least first and at least second type dopants in the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Ferrucio Frisina, Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Angelo Magri