Patents by Inventor Nobuo Machida

Nobuo Machida 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: 20230369414
    Abstract: Semiconductor device has a cell region and a peripheral region, and has a drift layer, a trench, an gate dielectric film on an inner wall of the trench, a gate electrode, and a p-type first semiconductor region below the trench in the cell region on a semiconductor substrate. Further, in the peripheral region on the semiconductor substrate, p-type second semiconductor region is formed in the same layer as the p-type first semiconductor region. a width of the p-type first semiconductor region and a width of the p-type second semiconductor region are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi SAKAI, Katsumi EIKYU, Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Kenichi HISADA, Nobuo MACHIDA
  • Patent number: 11769841
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a junction barrier Schottky diode device is disclosed. The junction barrier Schottky device includes an N-type semiconductor layer, a plurality of first P-type doped areas, a plurality of second P-type doped areas, and a conductive metal layer. The first P-type doped areas and the second P-type doped are formed in the N-type semiconductor layer. The second P-type doped areas are self-alignedly formed above the first P-type doped areas. The spacing between every neighboring two of the second P-type doped areas is larger than the spacing between every neighboring two of the first P-type doped areas. The conductive metal layer, formed on the N-type semiconductor layer, covers the first P-type doped areas and the second P-type doped areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: TAIPEI ANJET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Machida, Wen-Tsung Chang, Wen-Chin Wu
  • Patent number: 11646382
    Abstract: A junction barrier Schottky diode device and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed. In the junction barrier Schottky device includes an N-type semiconductor layer, a plurality of first P-type doped areas, a plurality of second P-type doped areas, and a conductive metal layer. The first P-type doped areas and the second P-type doped are formed in the N-type semiconductor layer. The second P-type doped areas are self-alignedly formed above the first P-type doped areas. The spacing between every neighboring two of the second P-type doped areas is larger than the spacing between every neighboring two of the first P-type doped areas. The conductive metal layer, formed on the N-type semiconductor layer, covers the first P-type doped areas and the second P-type doped areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TAIPEI ANJET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Machida, Wen-Tsung Chang, Wen-Chin Wu
  • Publication number: 20230077367
    Abstract: A drift layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate which is an SiC substrate. The drift layer includes first to third n-type semiconductor layers and a p-type impurity region. Herein, an impurity concentration of the second n-type semiconductor layer is higher than an impurity concentration of the first n-type semiconductor layer and an impurity concentration of the third n-type semiconductor layer. Also, in plan view, the second semiconductor layer located between the p-type impurity regions adjacent to each other overlaps with at least a part of a gate electrode formed in a trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Nobuo MACHIDA, Koichi ARAI, Kenichi HISADA, Yasunori YAMASHITA, Satoshi EGUCHI, Hironobu MIYAMOTO, Atsushi SAKAI, Katsumi EIKYU
  • Publication number: 20230030874
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor element includes preparing a semiconductor wafer that includes a substrate including a Ga2O3-based semiconductor and an epitaxial layer including a Ga2O3-based semiconductor and located on the substrate, fixing the epitaxial layer side of the semiconductor wafer to a support substrate, thinning the substrate of the semiconductor wafer fixed to the support substrate, after the thinning of the substrate, forming an electrode on a lower surface of the substrate, bonding or forming a support metal layer on a lower surface of the electrode of the semiconductor wafer, and dicing the semiconductor wafer into individual pieces, thereby obtaining plural semiconductor elements each including the support metal layer. Thermal conductivity of the support metal layer is higher than thermal conductivity of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION, Novel Crystal Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuo MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230034806
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a lead frame including a raised portion on a surface, and a semiconductor element that is face-down mounted on the lead frame and includes a substrate including a Ga2O3-based semiconductor, an epitaxial layer including a Ga2O3-based semiconductor and stacked on the substrate, a first electrode connected to a surface of the substrate on an opposite side to the epitaxial layer, and a second electrode connected to a surface of the epitaxial layer on an opposite side to the substrate and including a field plate portion at an outer peripheral portion. The semiconductor element is fixed onto the raised portion. An outer peripheral portion of the epitaxial layer, which is located on the outer side of the field plate portion, is located directly above a flat portion of the lead frame that is a portion at which the raised portion is not provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION, Novel Crystal Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuo MACHIDA, Kohei SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230021015
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a junction barrier Schottky diode device is disclosed. The junction barrier Schottky device includes an N-type semiconductor layer, a plurality of first P-type doped areas, a plurality of second P-type doped areas, and a conductive metal layer. The first P-type doped areas and the second P-type doped are formed in the N-type semiconductor layer. The second P-type doped areas are self-alignedly formed above the first P-type doped areas. The spacing between every neighboring two of the second P-type doped areas is larger than the spacing between every neighboring two of the first P-type doped areas. The conductive metal layer, formed on the N-type semiconductor layer, covers the first P-type doped areas and the second P-type doped areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuo MACHIDA, Wen-Tsung CHANG, Wen-Chin Wu
  • Publication number: 20220367731
    Abstract: A junction barrier Schottky diode device and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed. In the junction barrier Schottky device includes an N-type semiconductor layer, a plurality of first P-type doped areas, a plurality of second P-type doped areas, and a conductive metal layer. The first P-type doped areas and the second P-type doped are formed in the N-type semiconductor layer. The second P-type doped areas are self-alignedly formed above the first P-type doped areas. The spacing between every neighboring two of the second P-type doped areas is larger than the spacing between every neighboring two of the first P-type doped areas. The conductive metal layer, formed on the N-type semiconductor layer, covers the first P-type doped areas and the second P-type doped areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuo Machida, Wen-Tsung Chang, Wen-Chin Wu
  • Patent number: 11489047
    Abstract: To improve an on-resistance of a semiconductor device. A plurality of collector regions are formed at a predetermined interval on a bottom surface of a drift layer made of SiC. Next, on the bottom surface of the drift layer, both of the drift layer and a collector region via a silicide layer are connected to a collector electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Okamoto, Nobuo Machida
  • Patent number: 11276784
    Abstract: In a Schottky barrier diode region, a Schottky barrier diode is formed between an n-type drift layer and a metal layer, and in a body diode region, a p-type semiconductor region, a p-type semiconductor region, and a p-type semiconductor region are formed in order from a main surface side in the drift layer, and a body diode is formed between the p-type semiconductor region and the drift layer. An impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor region is decreased lower than the impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor regions, thereby increasing the reflux current flowing through the Schottky barrier diode and preventing the reflux current from flowing through the body diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Okamoto, Nobuo Machida, Kenichi Hisada
  • Publication number: 20210217888
    Abstract: To improve characteristics of a semiconductor device. A first p-type semiconductor region having an impurity of a conductivity type opposite from that of a drift layer is arranged in the drift layer below a trench, and a second p-type semiconductor region is further arranged that is spaced at a distance from a region where the trench is formed as seen from above and that has the impurity of the conductivity type opposite from that of the drift layer. The second p-type semiconductor region is configured by a plurality of regions arranged at a space in a Y direction (depth direction in the drawings). Thus, it is possible to reduce the specific on-resistance while maintaining the breakdown voltage of the gate insulating film by providing the first and second p-type semiconductor regions and further by arranging the second p-type semiconductor region spaced by the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi SAKAI, Katsumi EIKYU, Satoshi EGUCHI, Nobuo MACHIDA, Koichi ARAI, Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Kenichi HISADA, Yasunori YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20210159315
    Abstract: To improve an on-resistance of a semiconductor device. A plurality of collector regions are formed at a predetermined interval on a bottom surface of a drift layer made of SiC. Next, on the bottom surface of the drift layer, both of the drift layer and a collector region via a silicide layer are connected to a collector electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Nobuo MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210135018
    Abstract: In a Schottky barrier diode region, a Schottky barrier diode is formed between an n-type drift layer and a metal layer, and in a body diode region, a p-type semiconductor region, a p-type semiconductor region, and a p-type semiconductor region are formed in order from a main surface side in the drift layer, and a body diode is formed between the p-type semiconductor region and the drift layer. An impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor region is decreased lower than the impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor regions, thereby increasing the reflux current flowing through the Schottky barrier diode and preventing the reflux current from flowing through the body diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Nobuo MACHIDA, Kenichi HISADA
  • Publication number: 20210074816
    Abstract: Semiconductor device has a cell region and a peripheral region, and has a drift layer, a trench, an gate dielectric film on an inner wall of the trench, a gate electrode, and a p-type first semiconductor region below the trench in the cell region on a semiconductor substrate. Further, in the peripheral region on the semiconductor substrate, p-type second semiconductor region is formed in the same layer as the p-type first semiconductor region. a width of the p-type first semiconductor region and a width of the p-type second semiconductor region are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi SAKAI, Katsumi EIKYU, Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Kenichi HISADA, Nobuo MACHIDA
  • Patent number: 10896980
    Abstract: In a Schottky barrier diode region, a Schottky barrier diode is formed between an n-type drift layer and a metal layer, and in a body diode region, a p-type semiconductor region, a p-type semiconductor region, and a p-type semiconductor region are formed in order from a main surface side in the drift layer, and a body diode is formed between the p-type semiconductor region and the drift layer. An impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor region is decreased lower than the impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor regions, thereby increasing the reflux current flowing through the Schottky barrier diode and preventing the reflux current from flowing through the body diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Okamoto, Nobuo Machida, Kenichi Hisada
  • Publication number: 20200161480
    Abstract: In a Schottky barrier diode region, a Schottky barrier diode is formed between an n-type drift layer and a metal layer, and in a body diode region, a p-type semiconductor region, a p-type semiconductor region, and a p-type semiconductor region are formed in order from a main surface side in the drift layer, and a body diode is formed between the p-type semiconductor region and the drift layer. An impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor region is decreased lower than the impurity concentration of the p-type semiconductor regions, thereby increasing the reflux current flowing through the Schottky barrier diode and preventing the reflux current from flowing through the body diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Nobuo MACHIDA, Kenichi HISADA
  • Publication number: 20200161445
    Abstract: An n-type epitaxial layer is formed on an n-type semiconductor substrate made of silicon carbide. p-type body regions are formed in the epitaxial layer, and n-type source region is formed in the body region. On the body region between the source region and the epitaxial layer, a gate electrode is formed via a gate dielectric film, and an interlayer insulating film having an opening is formed so as to cover the gate electrode. A source electrode electrically connected to the source region and the body regions is formed in the opening. A recombination layer is formed between the body region and a basal plane dislocation is a layer having point defect density higher than that of the epitaxial layer located directly under the recombination layer or having a metal added to the epitaxial layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Hironobu MIYAMOTO, Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Kenichi HISADA, Koichi ARAI, Nobuo MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20190237577
    Abstract: A drift layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate which is an SiC substrate. The drift layer includes first to third n-type semiconductor layers and a p-type impurity region. Herein, an impurity concentration of the second n-type semiconductor layer is higher than an impurity concentration of the first n-type semiconductor layer and an impurity concentration of the third n-type semiconductor layer. Also, in plan view, the second semiconductor layer located between the p-type impurity regions adjacent to each other overlaps with at least a part of a gate electrode formed in a trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Nobuo MACHIDA, Koichi ARAI, Kenichi HISADA, Yasunori YAMASHITA, Satoshi EGUCHI, Hironobu MIYAMOTO, Atsushi SAKAI, Katsumi EIKYU
  • Publication number: 20190198663
    Abstract: To improve characteristics of a semiconductor device. A first p-type semiconductor region having an impurity of a conductivity type opposite from that of a drift layer is arranged in the drift layer below a trench, and a second p-type semiconductor region is further arranged that is spaced at a distance from a region where the trench is formed as seen from above and that has the impurity of the conductivity type opposite from that of the drift layer. The second p-type semiconductor region is configured by a plurality of regions arranged at a space in a Y direction (depth direction in the drawings). Thus, it is possible to reduce the specific on-resistance while maintaining the breakdown voltage of the gate insulating film by providing the first and second p-type semiconductor regions and further by arranging the second p-type semiconductor region spaced by the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi SAKAI, Katsumi EIKYU, Satoshi EGUCHI, Nobuo MACHIDA, Koichi ARAI, Yasuhiro OKAMOTO, Kenichi HISADA, Yasunori YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 9793342
    Abstract: In an insulated-gate type semiconductor device in which a gate-purpose conductive layer is embedded into a trench which is formed in a semiconductor substrate, and a source-purpose conductive layer is provided on a major surface of the semiconductor substrate, a portion of a gate pillar which is constituted by both the gate-purpose conductive layer and a cap insulating film for capping an upper surface of the gate-purpose conductive layer is projected from the major surface of the semiconductor substrate; a side wall spacer is provided on a side wall of the projected portion of the gate pillar; and the source-purpose conductive layer is connected to a contact region of the major surface of the semiconductor substrate, which is defined by the side wall spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: Renesas Electronics Corporation, Renesas Semiconductor Package & Test Solutions Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inagawa, Nobuo Machida, Kentaro Oishi