Patents by Inventor Yosuke Sakurai

Yosuke Sakurai 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: 20230039920
    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
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Misaki UCHIDA, Takashi YOSHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKISHITA, Shuntaro YAGUCHI, Seiji NOGUCHI, Yosuke SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 11488951
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a transistor portion including an emitter region on the top of the semiconductor substrate; a diode portion including a cathode region on the bottom of the semiconductor substrate and a second conductivity type overlap region in a region other than the cathode region and arranged alongside to the transistor portion a preset arrangement direction on the top of the semiconductor substrate; and an interlayer dielectric film provided between the semiconductor substrate and an emitter electrode and including a contact hole for connecting the emitter electrode and the diode portion. The overlap region is provided to have a first length between the end of the emitter region and the end of the cathode region and a second length, which is shorter than the first length, between the end of the contact hole and the end of the cathode region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakurai, Seiji Noguchi, Toru Ajiki
  • Publication number: 20220328313
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yosuke SAKURAI, Seiji NOGUCHI, Takashi YOSHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKISHITA, Misaki UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220277959
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate including an upper surface and a lower surface wherein a donor concentration of a drift region is higher than a base doping concentration of the semiconductor substrate, entirely over the drift region in a depth direction connecting the upper surface and the lower surface is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yasunori AGATA, Takashi YOSHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKISHITA, Misaki MEGURO, Naoko KODAMA, Yoshihiro IKURA, Seiji NOGUCHI, Yuichi HARADA, Yosuke SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20220216314
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device including: a drift region of a first conductivity type disposed in a semiconductor substrate; a base region of a second conductivity type disposed above the drift region; an emitter region of the first conductivity type disposed above the base region; a plurality of trench portions arrayed in a predetermined array direction on a front surface side of the semiconductor substrate; a trench contact disposed on the front surface side of the semiconductor substrate between two adjacent trench portions; and a contact layer of the second conductivity type disposed under the trench contact and having a higher doping concentration than the base region, wherein a lower end of the trench contact is deeper than a lower end of the emitter region, and the emitter region and the contact layer are in contact with each other at a side wall of the trench contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Yuichi HARADA, Seiji NOGUCHI, Norihiro KOMIYAMA, Yoshihiro IKURA, Yosuke SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20220181472
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate provided with a drift region; a buffer region arranged between the drift region and the lower surface, wherein a doping concentration distribution has three or more concentration peaks; and a collector region arranged between the buffer region and the lower surface, wherein the three or more concentration peaks in the buffer region include: a first concentration peak closest to the lower surface; a second concentration peak closest, next to the first concentration peak, to the lower surface, arranged 5 ?m or more distant from the lower surface in the depth direction, and having a doping concentration lower than the first concentration peak, the doping concentration being less than 1.0×1015/cm3; and a high concentration peak arranged farther from the lower surface than the second concentration peak, and having a higher doping concentration than the second concentration peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiharu KATO, Yosuke SAKURAI, Seiji NOGUCHI, Takashi YOSHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11342186
    Abstract: A semiconductor device wherein a hydrogen concentration distribution has a first hydrogen concentration peak and a second hydrogen concentration peak and a donor concentration distribution has a first donor concentration peak and a second donor concentration peak in a depth direction, wherein the first hydrogen concentration peak and the first donor concentration peak are placed at a first depth and the second hydrogen concentration peak and the second donor concentration peak are placed at a second depth deeper than the first depth relative to the lower surface is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Agata, Takashi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Takishita, Misaki Meguro, Naoko Kodama, Yoshihiro Ikura, Seiji Noguchi, Yuichi Harada, Yosuke Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11264491
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate provided with a transistor portion, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes, in the transistor portion, a drift region of a first conductivity type; an accumulation region of the first conductivity type that has a higher doping concentration than the drift region; a collector region of a second conductivity type; and a plurality of gate trench portions and a plurality of dummy trench portions that are provided extending in a predetermined extension direction in the top surface of the semiconductor substrate, and are arranged in an arrangement direction orthogonal to the extension direction, and the transistor portion includes a first region that includes a gate trench portion; and a second region in which the number of dummy trench portions arranged in a unit length in the arrangement direction is greater than in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ozaki, Akinori Kanetake, Tohru Shirakawa, Yosuke Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20210384332
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device that includes a drift region that is of a first conductivity type and is provided in a semiconductor substrate; a base region that is of a second conductivity type and is provided above the drift region; an accumulation region that is of the first conductivity type provided between the base region and the drift region; and an electric field relaxation region that is provided between the base region and the accumulation region, wherein the boundary between the electric field relaxation region and the accumulation region is a location for a half-value for the peak of the doping concentration of the accumulation region, and an integrated concentration of the electric field relaxation region is greater than or equal to 5E14 cm?2 and less than or equal to 5E15 cm?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yosuke SAKURAI, Yuichi ONOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210359088
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device, including: a drift region of a first conductivity type which is provided in a semiconductor substrate, and a buffer region of the first conductivity type which is provided between the drift region and a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, and has three or more concentration peaks higher than a doping concentration of the drift region of the semiconductor substrate in a depth direction. Three or more of the concentration peaks includes a shallowest peak closest to the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, a high concentration peak arranged at an upper side than the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate than the shallowest peak, and one or more low concentration peaks arranged at an upper side than the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate than the high concentration peak and of which the doping concentration is ? or less of the high concentration peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kota OHI, Yoshihiro IKURA, Yosuke SAKURAI, Mutsumi KITAMURA, Yuichi ONOZAWA, Yoshiharu KATO, Toru AJIKI
  • Publication number: 20210320195
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device that has a plurality of gate trench portions electrically connected to a gate electrode, and a plurality of dummy trench portions electrically connected to an emitter electrode, and includes a first trench group that includes one gate trench portion and two dummy trench portions adjacent to the gate trench portion and adjacent to each other, and a second trench group that includes two gate trench portions adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yuichi HARADA, Seiji NOGUCHI, Norihiro KOMIYAMA, Yoshihiro IKURA, Yosuke SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20210151430
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a transistor portion including an emitter region on the top of the semiconductor substrate; a diode portion including a cathode region on the bottom of the semiconductor substrate and a second conductivity type overlap region in a region other than the cathode region and arranged alongside to the transistor portion a preset arrangement direction on the top of the semiconductor substrate; and an interlayer dielectric film provided between the semiconductor substrate and an emitter electrode and including a contact hole for connecting the emitter electrode and the diode portion. The overlap region is provided to have a first length between the end of the emitter region and the end of the cathode region and a second length, which is shorter than the first length, between the end of the contact hole and the end of the cathode region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yosuke SAKURAI, Seiji NOGUCHI, Toru AJIKI
  • Publication number: 20210082702
    Abstract: A semiconductor device wherein a hydrogen concentration distribution has a first hydrogen concentration peak and a second hydrogen concentration peak and a donor concentration distribution has a first donor concentration peak and a second donor concentration peak in a depth direction, wherein the first hydrogen concentration peak and the first donor concentration peak are placed at a first depth and the second hydrogen concentration peak and the second donor concentration peak are placed at a second depth deeper than the first depth relative to the lower surface is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yasunori AGATA, Takashi YOSHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKISHITA, Misaki MEGURO, Naoko KODAMA, Yoshihiro IKURA, Seiji NOGUCHI, Yuichi HARADA, Yosuke SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 10916628
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a drift region having a first conductivity type provided on a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of trench portions provided above the drift region, on a top surface side of the semiconductor substrate; a base region having a second conductivity type provided in a mesa portion sandwiched between the plurality of trench portions, in the semiconductor substrate; an emitter region having the first conductivity type provided above the base region, on a top surface of the mesa portion; and a contact region having the second conductivity type and a higher doping concentration than the base region, provided adjacent to the emitter region on the top surface of the mesa portion, wherein a mesa width of the mesa portion is less than or equal to 100 nm, and a bottom end of the contact region is shallower than a bottom end of the emitter region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakurai, Yuichi Onozawa, Akio Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20200357904
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate provided with a transistor portion, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes, in the transistor portion, a drift region of a first conductivity type; an accumulation region of the first conductivity type that has a higher doping concentration than the drift region; a collector region of a second conductivity type; and a plurality of gate trench portions and a plurality of dummy trench portions that are provided extending in a predetermined extension direction in the top surface of the semiconductor substrate, and are arranged in an arrangement direction orthogonal to the extension direction, and the transistor portion includes a first region that includes a gate trench portion; and a second region in which the number of dummy trench portions arranged in a unit length in the arrangement direction is greater than in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Daisuke OZAKI, Akinori KANETAKE, Tohru SHIRAKAWA, Yosuke SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 10707300
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a trench gate structure is provided. A semiconductor device is provided, including: a first-conductivity-type drift region provided in a semiconductor substrate; a first-conductivity-type accumulation region provided above the drift region and having a higher doping concentration than the drift region; a second-conductivity-type base region provided above the accumulation region; and an electric-field relaxation layer provided between the accumulation region and the base region and having a lower doping concentration than the accumulation region. The electric-field relaxation layer may include a first-conductivity-type region including a region having a same doping concentration as the drift region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakurai, Yuichi Onozawa, Akio Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10651302
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate; a drift region of first conductivity type that is formed in the semiconductor substrate; an accumulation region of first conductivity type that is formed above the drift region and has higher concentration than concentration of the drift region; a base region of second conductivity type that is formed above the accumulation region; and a gate trench portion that is formed extending from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to the drift region, passing through the base region and the accumulation region, wherein a maximum value of doping concentration of the accumulation region is greater than a maximum value of doping concentration of the base region will be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakurai, Yuichi Onozawa
  • Publication number: 20190312101
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a trench gate structure is provided. A semiconductor device is provided, including: a first-conductivity-type drift region provided in a semiconductor substrate; a first-conductivity-type accumulation region provided above the drift region and having a higher doping concentration than the drift region; a second-conductivity-type base region provided above the accumulation region; and an electric-field relaxation layer provided between the accumulation region and the base region and having a lower doping concentration than the accumulation region. The electric-field relaxation layer may include a first-conductivity-type region including a region having a same doping concentration as the drift region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke SAKURAI, Yuichi ONOZAWA, Akio NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190312105
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a drift region having a first conductivity type provided on a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of trench portions provided above the drift region, on a top surface side of the semiconductor substrate; a base region having a second conductivity type provided in a mesa portion sandwiched between the plurality of trench portions, in the semiconductor substrate; an emitter region having the first conductivity type provided above the base region, on a top surface of the mesa portion; and a contact region having the second conductivity type and a higher doping concentration than the base region, provided adjacent to the emitter region on the top surface of the mesa portion, wherein a mesa width of the mesa portion is less than or equal to 100 nm, and a bottom end of the contact region is shallower than a bottom end of the emitter region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke SAKURAI, Yuichi ONOZAWA, Akio NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180301550
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate; a drift region of first conductivity type that is formed in the semiconductor substrate; an accumulation region of first conductivity type that is formed above the drift region and has higher concentration than concentration of the drift region; a base region of second conductivity type that is formed above the accumulation region; and a gate trench portion that is formed extending from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to the drift region, passing through the base region and the accumulation region, wherein a maximum value of doping concentration of the accumulation region is greater than a maximum value of doping concentration of the base region will be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Yosuke SAKURAI, Yuichi ONOZAWA