Patents by Inventor Zehong LI

Zehong LI 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: 20230088637
    Abstract: A split gate carrier stored trench bipolar transistor (CSTBT) with current clamping PMOS include a P-type buried layer and a split gate electrode with equal potential to an emitter metal on the basis of the traditional CSTBT, which effectively eliminates the influence of an N-type carrier stored layer on breakdown characteristics of the device through the charge compensation effect, and helps to improve the trade-off relationship between the on-state voltage drop and the turn-off loss. Moreover, the introduction of a parasitic PMOS structure can reduce the saturation current and improve short-circuit safe operating area of the device, reduce the Miller capacitance, and improve the switching speed of the device and reduce the switching loss of the device. In addition, the split gate CSTBT integrating the split gate electrode and gate electrode in the same trench can shorten the distance between PMOS and NMOS channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Jinping ZHANG, Yuanyuan TU, Rongrong ZHU, Zehong LI, Bo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230090883
    Abstract: A three-dimensional carrier stored trench IGBT and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A P-type buried layer and a split gate electrode with equal potential to an emitter metal is introduced on the basis of the traditional carrier stored trench IGBT, which can effectively eliminate the influence of an N-type carrier stored layer on breakdown characteristics of the device through the charge compensation, and at the same time can reduce the on-state voltage drop and improve the trade-off relationship between the on-state voltage drop Vceon and the turn-off loss Eoff. The split gate electrodes is introduced in the Z-axis direction, so that the gate electrodes are distributed at intervals. Therefore, the channel density is reduced. The turning on of the parasitic PMOS has a potential-clamping effect on the NMOS channel, so that the saturation current can be reduced and a wider short-circuit safe operating area (SCSOA) can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Jinping ZHANG, Rongrong ZHU, Yuanyuan TU, Zehong LI, Bo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10923583
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of power semiconductor devices, particularly to an insulated gate bipolar transistor with a MOS controllable hole path. According to the present invention, a MOS controllable gate structure formed by a gate dielectric layer, a MOS control gate electrode and a P-type MOS channel region are embedded in a P+ floating p-body region of the conventional IGBT structure. The MOS region is equivalent to a switch controlled by a gate voltage. When the device is turned on under a forward voltage, the potential of the p-body region is floated to store holes, reducing the saturation conduction voltage drop of the device. Under the condition of turn-off and short-circuit, the hole extracting path is provided and the Miller capacitance is lowered, thereby lowering the turn-off losses and enhancing the short-circuit withstand capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Zehong Li, Xin Peng, Yishang Zhao, Min Ren, Bo Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200235231
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of power semiconductor devices, particularly to an insulated gate bipolar transistor with a MOS controllable hole path. According to the present invention, a MOS controllable gate structure formed by a gate dielectric layer, a MOS control gate electrode and a P-type MOS channel region are embedded in a P+ floating p-body region of the conventional IGBT structure. The MOS region is equivalent to a switch controlled by a gate voltage. When the device is turned on under a forward voltage, the potential of the p-body region is floated to store holes, reducing the saturation conduction voltage drop of the device. Under the condition of turn-off and short-circuit, the hole extracting path is provided and the Miller capacitance is lowered, thereby lowering the turn-off losses and enhancing the short-circuit withstand capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Zehong LI, Xin PENG, Yishang ZHAO, Min REN, Bo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10546951
    Abstract: A trench MOS device with improved single event burnout endurance, applied in the field of semiconductor. The device is provided, in an epitaxial layer, with a conductive type semiconductor pillar connected to a source and a second conductive type current-directing region. Whereby, the trajectory of the electron-hole pairs induced by the single event effect is changed and thus avoids the single event burnout caused by the triggering of parasitic transistors, therefore improving the endurance of the single event burnout of the trench MOS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Institute of Electronic and Information Engineering of UESTC in Guangdong
    Inventors: Min Ren, Yuci Lin, Chi Xie, Zhiheng Su, Zehong Li, Jinping Zhang, Wei Gao, Bo Zhang
  • Patent number: 10523129
    Abstract: Provided is a synchronous rectification circuit, which relates to electronic circuit technologies. The synchronous rectification circuit is self-driven by a combination of a charge pump and a Boost circuit, including a rectification MOSFET, a charge pump, logic control modules, voltage detection modules, an oscillator module, a PWM generation module, a reference voltage generation module, a switch, a free-wheeling MOSFET, an isolation MOSFET, an inductor, a capacitor and sampling resistors. According to the present application, initially, the charge is stored on the capacitor through the charge pump, the Boost circuit is turned on till the voltage is increased to a certain value; through processing by the logic control modules and the like, the rectification MOSFET is turned on, thus self-driving of the synchronous rectification circuit is achieved. The self-driving mode can charge the capacitor faster, lower the duty of the rectification circuit, and reduce the average conduction voltage drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Guizhou E-CHIP Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zehong Li, Rong Wang, Caimin Yi, Yuzhou Wu
  • Publication number: 20190371937
    Abstract: A trench MOS device with improved single event burnout endurance, applied in the field of semiconductor. The device is provided, in an epitaxial layer, with a conductive type semiconductor pillar connected to a source and a second conductive type current-directing region. Whereby. the trajectory of the electron-hole pairs induced by the single event effect is changed and thus avoids the single event burnout caused by the triggering of parasitic transistors, therefore improving the endurance of the single event burnout of the trench MOS device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicants: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Institute of Electronic and Information Engineering of UESTC in Guangdong
    Inventors: Min REN, Yuci LIN, Chi XIE, Zhiheng SU, Zehong LI, Jinping ZHANG, Wei GAO, Bo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190229642
    Abstract: Provided is a synchronous rectification circuit, which relates to electronic circuit technologies. The synchronous rectification circuit is self-driven by a combination of a charge pump and a Boost circuit, including a rectification MOSFET, a charge pump, logic control modules, voltage detection modules, an oscillator module, a PWM generation module, a reference voltage generation module, a switch, a free-wheeling MOSFET, an isolation MOSFET, an inductor, a capacitor and sampling resistors. According to the present application, initially, the charge is stored on the capacitor through the charge pump, the Boost circuit is turned on till the voltage is increased to a certain value; through processing by the logic control modules and the like, the rectification MOSFET is turned on, thus self-driving of the synchronous rectification circuit is achieved. The self-driving mode can charge the capacitor faster, lower the duty of the rectification circuit, and reduce the average conduction voltage drop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: ZEHONG LI, RONG WANG, CAIMIN YI, YUZHOU WU
  • Patent number: 10340332
    Abstract: A junction termination with an internal field plate, the field plate structure and the junction termination extension region are folded inside the device to make full use of the thickness of the drift region in the body, thereby reducing the area of the termination and relieving the electric field concentration at the end of the PN junction. The breakdown position is transferred from the surface into the body of the original PN junction, and the withstand voltage of termination can reach to the breakdown voltage of the parallel plane junction. Under such design, a smaller area can be obtained than that of the conventional structure at the same withstand voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING OF UESTC IN GUANGDONG
    Inventors: Min Ren, Yumeng Zhang, Cong Di, Jingzhi Xiong, Zehong Li, Jinping Zhang, Wei Gao, Bo Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190067415
    Abstract: A junction termination with an internal field plate, the field plate structure and the junction termination extension region are folded inside the device to make full use of the thickness of the drift region in the body, thereby reducing the area of the termination and relieving the electric field concentration at the end of the PN junction. The breakdown position is transferred from the surface into the body of the original PN junction, and the withstand voltage of termination can reach to the breakdown voltage of the parallel plane junction. Under such design, a smaller area can be obtained than that of the conventional structure at the same withstand voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicants: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Institute of Electronic and Information Engineering of UESTC in Guangdong
    Inventors: Min REN, Yumeng ZHANG, Cong DI, Jingzhi XIONG, Zehong LI, Jinping ZHANG, Wei GAO, Bo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10158350
    Abstract: The double pulse generator of the level shifter circuit takes out the rising edge and falling edge of the pulse width modulation signal PWM_H and generates corresponding narrow pulse signals. The two narrow pulse signals respectively pass through the pulse shaper to control the two field effect transistors in the switching circuit. The pulse width of the narrow pulse signal is not enough to completely switch on the two field effect transistors, so the generated waveform is a sawtooth wave; the drains of the two field effect transistors are respectively connected to the hysteresis-adjustable Schmidt trigger to restore the narrow pulse signal to the rising edge and falling edge pulse signal of the pulse width modulation signal PWM_HS with respect to the floating side VS, and then the signal is restored to the level-shifted pulse width modulation signal PWM HS after passing through the RS latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING OF UESTC IN GUANGDONG
    Inventors: Zehong Li, Xiao Zeng, Yuzhou Wu, Jiali Wan
  • Patent number: 10135426
    Abstract: A gate charge and discharge adjustment regulating circuit for a gate control device belongs to the power electronics technology field. The switch control signal is connected to the control terminals of the four analog switches. The gate control signal is loaded on the gate of the correct field effect transistor under the action of the four analog switches to control the switching-on degree so as to achieve the purpose of adjusting the gate driving signal current, that is, regulating the gate charge and discharge currents of the gate control device to realize the change of the switching characteristics and conduction characteristics. The switch control signal is connected to the input terminal of the gate driving module to control the gate driving module to generate the gate driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Institute of Electronic and Information Engineering of UESTC in Guangdong
    Inventors: Zehong Li, Xiao Zeng, Yuzhou Wu, Jiali Wan
  • Patent number: 10056452
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vertical super junction drift layer of a power semiconductor device. The method includes: a): adopting a P+ single crystal silicon to prepare a P+ substrate; b): finishing top processes of the devices on the P+ substrate, forming at least a P type region, manufacturing active area and metallizing the top surface of the P+ substrate; c): thinning the back surface of the P+ single crystal silicon; d): selectively implanting H+ ions at the back surface repeatedly and then annealing to form N pillars in the P type region; and e): metallizing the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING IN DONGGUAN, UESTC
    Inventors: Zehong Li, Wenlong Song, Xunyi Song, Hongming Gu, Youbiao Zou, Jinping Zhang, Bo Zhang
  • Patent number: 9929285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of semiconductor technology, particularly to a super-junction schottky diode. According to the present invention, the effective area of schottky junction is increased by forming the schottky junction in the trench located in the body of the device. Therefore, the current capacity of this novel schottky diode can be greatly improved. In addition, a super-junction structure is used to improve the device's reverse breakdown voltage and reduce the reverse leakage current. The super-junction schottky diode provided in the present invention can achieve a larger forward current, a lower on-resistance and a better reverse breakdown characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Min Ren, Yuci Lin, Huiping Bao, Lei Luo, Zehong Li, Bo Zhang
  • Patent number: 9905682
    Abstract: A bidirectional Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) device, including a P-type substrate, and an active region. The active region includes a drift region, a first MOS structure and a second MOS structure; the first MOS structure includes a first P-type body region, a first P+ contact region, a first N+ source region, a first metal electrode, and a first gate structure; the second MOS structure includes a second P-type body region, a second P+ contact region, a second N+ source region, a second metal electrode, and a second gate structure; and the drift region includes a dielectric slot, a first N-type layer, a second N-type layer, and an N-type region. The active region is disposed on the upper surface of the P-type substrate. The first MOS structure and the second MOS structure are symmetrically disposed on two ends of the upper layer of the drift region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING IN DONGGUAN, UESTC
    Inventors: Jinping Zhang, Zehong Li, Jingxiu Liu, Min Ren, Bo Zhang, Zhaoji Li
  • Publication number: 20180026129
    Abstract: Edge termination structures for power semiconductor devices (or power devices) are disclosed. The purpose of this invention is to reduce the difficulty of deep trench etching and dielectric filling by adopting an inverted trapezoidal trench. In order to save the area of edge termination and get a high blocking voltage on condition that the angle between the sidewall of the trench and horizontal is large, fixed charges are introduced at a particular location in the trench. Due to the Coulomb interaction between the ionized impurity in the drift region and the fixed charges, the depletion region of the terminal PN junction can extend fully, which relieves the concentration of electric field there. Therefore, the edge termination can exhibit a high breakdown voltage near to that of the parallel plane junction with a smaller area and the reduced technical difficulty of deep trench etching and dielectric filling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Min REN, Chi XIE, Jiaju LI, Ziqi ZHONG, Zehong LI, Jinping ZHANG, Wei GAO, Bo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20180026143
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of semiconductor technology, particularly to a super-junction schottky diode. According to the present invention, the effective area of schottky junction is increased by forming the schottky junction in the trench located in the body of the device. Therefore, the current capacity of this novel schottky diode can be greatly improved. In addition, a super-junction structure is used to improve the device's reverse breakdown voltage and reduce the reverse leakage current. The super-junction schottky diode provided in the present invention can achieve a larger forward current, a lower on-resistance and a better reverse breakdown characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Min REN, Yuci LIN, Huiping BAO, Lei LUO, Zehong LI, Bo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9741837
    Abstract: A bidirectional IGBT device, including a cellular structure including: two MOS structures, a substrate drift layer, two highly doped buried layers operating for carrier storage or field stop, two metal electrodes, and isolating dielectrics. Each MOS structure includes: a body region, a heavily doped source region, a body contact region, and a gate structure. Each gate structure includes: a gate dielectric and a gate conductive material. The two MOS structures are symmetrically disposed on the top surface and the back surface of the substrate drift layer. The heavily doped source region and the body contact region are disposed in the body region and independent from each other, and both surfaces of the heavily doped source region and the body contact region are connected to each of the two metal electrodes. The gate dielectric separates the gate conductive material from a channel region of each of the MOS structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING IN DONGGUAN, UESTC
    Inventors: Jinping Zhang, Yadong Shan, Gaochao Xu, Xin Yao, Jingxiu Liu, Zehong Li, Min Ren, Bo Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170084728
    Abstract: A bidirectional Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) device, including a P-type substrate, and an active region. The active region includes a drift region, a first MOS structure and a second MOS structure; the first MOS structure includes a first P-type body region, a first P+ contact region, a first N+ source region, a first metal electrode, and a first gate structure; the second MOS structure includes a second P-type body region, a second P+ contact region, a second N+ source region, a second metal electrode, and a second gate structure; and the drift region includes a dielectric slot, a first N-type layer, a second N-type layer, and an N-type region. The active region is disposed on the upper surface of the P-type substrate. The first MOS structure and the second MOS structure are symmetrically disposed on two ends of the upper layer of the drift region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Jinping ZHANG, Zehong LI, Jingxiu LIU, Min REN, Bo ZHANG, Zhaoji LI
  • Publication number: 20160322483
    Abstract: A bidirectional IGBT device, including a cellular structure including: two MOS structures, a substrate drift layer, two highly doped buried layers operating for carrier storage or field stop, two metal electrodes, and isolating dielectrics. Each MOS structure includes: a body region, a heavily doped source region, a body contact region, and a gate structure. Each gate structure includes: a gate dielectric and a gate conductive material. The two MOS structures are symmetrically disposed on the top surface and the back surface of the substrate drift layer. The heavily doped source region and the body contact region are disposed in the body region and independent from each other, and both surfaces of the heavily doped source region and the body contact region are connected to each of the two metal electrodes. The gate dielectric separates the gate conductive material from a channel region of each of the MOS structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Jinping ZHANG, Yadong SHAN, Gaochao XU, Xin YAO, Jingxiu LIU, Zehong LI, Min REN, Bo ZHANG