Abstract: To provide a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including forming a lifetime control region from the side of a front surface of a semiconductor substrate, ion-implanting Ti into a bottom surface of a contact hole provided so as to penetrate through an interlayer dielectric film arranged on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and forming a Ti silicide layer at the bottom surface of the contact hole with anneal.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a MOS gate structure provided in a semiconductor substrate, including: an interlayer dielectric film which includes a contact hole and is provided above the semiconductor substrate; a conductive first barrier metal layer provided on side walls of the interlayer dielectric film in the contact hole; a conductive second barrier metal layer stacked on the first barrier metal layer in the contact hole; and a silicide layer provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate below the contact hole, in which the first barrier metal layer is more dense than the second barrier metal layer, and a film thickness thereof is 1 nm or more and 10 nm or less.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor apparatus, wherein a doping concentration distribution in the buffer region has a deepest slope where a doping concentration monotonically decreases to a position where it comes in contact with the drift region in a direction from the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate toward an upper surface, a hydrogen chemical concentration distribution in the buffer region includes in a first depth range provided with the slope: a first decrease portion where a hydrogen chemical concentration decreases toward the upper surface side; a second decrease portion located closer to the upper surface side than the first decrease portion is and where the chemical concentration decreases; and an intermediate portion arranged between the first and second decrease portions, and the intermediate portion has: a flat portion where the distribution is uniform; a peak in a slope of the chemical concentration; or a kink portion of the chemical concentration.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including: a buffer region having a doping concentration higher than a bulk donor concentration; a first low-concentration hydrogen peak in the buffer region; a second low-concentration hydrogen peak in the buffer region closer to a lower surface than the first low-concentration hydrogen peak; a high-concentration hydrogen peak in the buffer region closer to the lower surface than the second low-concentration hydrogen peak, the high-concentration hydrogen peak having a hydrogen chemical concentration higher than that of the second low-concentration hydrogen peak; and a flat region including a region between the two low-concentration hydrogen peaks and a region including the second low-concentration hydrogen peak, and having a doping concentration higher than a bulk donor concentration, an average value of the doping concentration being equal to or smaller than a local minimum value of a doping concentration between the second low-concentration hydrogen peak and the high-conc

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device provided with an IGBT, comprising: a semiconductor substrate having upper and lower surfaces, throughout which bulk donors are distributed; a hydrogen peak including a local maximum arranged 25 ?m or more away from the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate in a depth direction, at which a hydrogen chemical concentration shows a local maximum value; an upper tail where the hydrogen chemical concentration decreases in a direction from the local maximum toward the upper surface; and a lower tail where the hydrogen chemical concentration decreases in a direction from the local maximum toward the lower surface more gradually than the upper tail; and a first high concentration region having a donor concentration higher than a bulk donor concentration and including a region extending for 4 ?m or more in a direction from the local maximum of the hydrogen peak toward the upper surface.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface, and containing a bulk donor; a buffer region of a first conductivity type which is disposed on the lower surface side of the semiconductor substrate and contains a hydrogen donor, and in which a doping concentration distribution in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate has a single first doping concentration peak; a high-concentration region of a first conductivity type which is disposed between the buffer region and the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, contains a hydrogen donor, and has a donor concentration higher than a bulk donor concentration; and a lower surface region of a first conductivity type or a second conductivity type which is disposed between the buffer region and a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, and has a doping concentration higher than the high-concentration region.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface, and containing a bulk donor; a buffer region of a first conductivity type; a high-concentration region of a first conductivity type; and a lower surface region of a first conductivity type or a second conductivity type, wherein a shallowest doping concentration peak closest to the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate among the doping concentration peaks of the buffer region is a concentration peak of a hydrogen donor having a concentration higher than the other doping concentration peaks, and a ratio A/B of a peak concentration A of the shallowest doping concentration peak and an average peak concentration B of the other doping concentration peaks is 200 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor apparatus including: a first peak of a hydrogen chemical concentration disposed on the lower surface side of the semiconductor substrate; and a flat portion disposed on the upper surface side of the semiconductor substrate with respect to the first peak, containing a hydrogen donor, and having a substantially (almost) flat donor concentration distribution in a depth direction. An oxygen contribution ratio indicating a ratio of an oxygen chemical concentration contributing to generation of the hydrogen donor in the oxygen chemical concentration of the oxygen ranges from 1×10?5 to 7×10?4. A concentration of the oxygen contributing to generation of the hydrogen donor in the flat portion is lower than the hydrogen chemical concentration. A hydrogen donor concentration in the flat portion ranges from 2×1012/cm3 to 5×1014/cm3.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device, including a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface and including a bulk donor, wherein a hydrogen chemical concentration distribution of the semiconductor substrate in a depth direction is flat, monotonically increasing, or monotonically decreasing from the lower surface to the upper surface except for a portion where a local hydrogen concentration peak is provided; and a donor concentration of the semiconductor substrate is higher than a bulk donor concentration over an entire region from the upper surface to the lower surface. Hydrogen ions may be irradiated from the upper surface or the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate so as to penetrate the semiconductor substrate in the depth direction.