In Integrated Circuit Structure Patents (Class 257/334)
  • Publication number: 20140175540
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe a high density trench-based power MOSFETs with self-aligned source contacts and methods for making such devices. The source contacts are self-aligned with spacers and the active devices may have a two-step gate oxide. A lower portion may have a thickness that is larger than the thickness of an upper portion of the gate oxide. The MOSFETS also may include a depletable shield in a lower portion of the substrate. The depletable shield may be configured such that during a high drain bias the shield substantially depletes. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Madhur Bobde, Hamza Yilmaz, Sik Lui, Daniel Ng
  • Patent number: 8759911
    Abstract: Plural island-form emitter cells (22) having a p-base region (23) and an n+ emitter region (24) are provided, distanced from each other, on a main surface of an n? layer (21). A trench (25) deeper than the p-base region (23) is formed on either side of the emitter cell (22). A first gate electrode (26) is embedded in the trench (25) across a first gate insulating film (41). A second gate electrode (27) that electrically connects first gate electrodes (26) is provided, across a second gate insulating film (40), on a surface of a region of the p-base region (23) sandwiched by the n+ emitter region (24). A conductive region (28) that electrically connects second gate electrodes (27) is provided, across a third gate insulating film (42), on a surface of the n? layer (21). A contact region (29) that is isolated from the second gate electrode (27), and that short circuits the n+ emitter region (24) and p-base region (23), is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hong-fei Lu
  • Patent number: 8759910
    Abstract: A semiconductor power device with trenched floating gates having thick bottom oxide as termination is disclosed. The gate charge is reduced by forming a HDP oxide layer padded by a thermal oxide layer on trench bottom and a top surface of mesa areas between adjacent trenched gates. Therefore, only three masks are needed to achieve the device structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Force Mos Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20140167155
    Abstract: A semiconductor component arrangement and method for producing thereof is disclosed. One embodiment provides at least one power semiconductor component integrated in a semiconductor body and at least one logic component integrated in the semiconductor body. The logic component includes a trench extending into the semiconductor body proceeding from a first side, at least one gate electrode arranged in the trench and insulated from the semiconductor body by a gate dielectric, and at least one source zone and at least one drain zone of a first conduction type, which are formed in the semiconductor body in a manner adjacent to the gate dielectric and in a manner spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction of the trench and between which at least one body zone of a second conduction type is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Markus Zundel, Norbert Krischke
  • Publication number: 20140167154
    Abstract: One embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a dense trench transistor cell array. The dense trench transistor cell array includes a plurality of transistor cells in a semiconductor body. A width w3 of a transistor mesa region of each of the plurality of transistor cells and a width w1 of a first trench of each of the plurality of transistor cells satisfy the following relationship: w3<1.5×w1. The semiconductor device further includes semiconductor diodes. At least one of the semiconductor diodes is arranged between first and second parts of the plurality of transistor cells and includes a diode mesa region adjoining opposing walls of second trenches. A depth d1 of the first trench and a depth d2 of the second trenches differ by at least 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Peter Nelle, Markus Zundel
  • Patent number: 8753935
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe a high density trench-based power MOSFETs with self-aligned source contacts and methods for making such devices. The source contacts are self-aligned with spacers and the active devices may have a two-step gate oxide. A lower portion may have a thickness that is larger than the thickness of an upper portion of the gate oxide. The MOSFETS also may include a depletable shield in a lower portion of the substrate. The depletable shield may be configured such that during a high drain bias the shield substantially depletes. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Madhur Bobde, Hamza Yilmaz, Sik Lui, Daniel Ng
  • Patent number: 8748979
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device whose breakdown voltage is made high by controlling local concentration of an electric field. A source region faces a second plane, one of side faces of a groove part, and a part thereof extends in a direction in parallel to a nodal line of first and second planes. A drift region faces a third plane being the other side face of the groove part opposite to the second plane with a part thereof extending in a direction parallel to the nodal line of the first plane and the third plane, and is formed at a lower concentration than the source region. The drain region is provided so as to be placed on the other side of the drift region opposite to the groove part and so as to touch the drift region, and is formed at a higher concentration than the drift region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20140151790
    Abstract: An integrated structure combines field effect transistors and a Schottky diode. Trenches formed into a substrate composition extend along a depth of the substrate composition forming mesas therebetween. Each trench is filled with conductive material separated from the trench walls by dielectric material forming a gate region. Two first conductivity type body regions inside each mesa form wells partly into the depth of the substrate composition. An exposed portion of the substrate composition separates the body regions. Second conductivity type source regions inside each body region are adjacent to and on opposite sides of each well. Schottky barrier metal inside each well forms Schottky junctions at interfaces with exposed vertical sidewalls of the exposed portion of the substrate composition separating the body regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Sik Lui, Yi Su, Daniel Ng, Anup Bhalla
  • Publication number: 20140151789
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first transistor cell including a first gate electrode in a first trench. The semiconductor device further includes a second transistor cell including a second gate electrode in a second trench, wherein the first and second gate electrodes are electrically connected. The semiconductor device further includes a third trench between the first and second trenches, wherein the third trench extends deeper into a semiconductor body from a first side of the semiconductor body than the first and second trenches. The semiconductor device further includes a dielectric in the third trench covering a bottom side and walls of the third trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Maria Cotorogea, Hans Peter Felsl, Yvonne Gawlina, Francisco Javier Santos Rodriguez, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Georg Seibert, Andre Rainer Stegner, Wolfgang Wagner
  • Publication number: 20140151791
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises: a memory cell region having a first transistor and a peripheral circuit region having a second transistor. The first transistor has a first source electrode and a first drain electrode, a first buried gate insulating film which is formed along an inner wall of a trench and whose relative dielectric constant is higher than a relative dielectric constant of silicon oxide, and a buried gate electrode. The second transistor has a second source electrode and a second drain electrode, a first on-substrate gate insulating film whose relative dielectric constant is higher than a relative dielectric constant of silicon oxide, and an on-substrate gate electrode. A first Hf content percentage, which is a content percentage of hafnium in the first buried gate insulating film, is different from a second Hf content percentage, which is a content percentage of hafnium in the first on-substrate gate insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Elpida Memory, Inc.
    Inventor: Kanta SAINO
  • Patent number: 8742494
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a groove and an active region adjacent to the groove; a buried gate electrode in the groove; and a capacitor contact including a first portion and a second portion over the first portion. The first portion is greater in horizontal dimension than the second portion. The first portion has a bottom surface that is in contact with an upper surface of the active region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventor: Nan Wu
  • Publication number: 20140145259
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has an FET of a trench-gate structure obtained by disposing a conductive layer, which will be a gate, in a trench extended in the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the upper surface of the trench-gate conductive layer is formed equal to or higher than the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The conductive layer of the trench gate is formed to have a substantially flat or concave upper surface and the upper surface is formed equal to or higher than the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. After etching of the semiconductor substrate to form the upper surface of the conductive layer of the trench gate, a channel region and a source region are formed by ion implantation so that the semiconductor device is free from occurrence of a source offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicants: HITACHI ULSI SYSTEMS CO., LTD., RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi INAGAWA, Nobuo MACHIDA, Kentaro OOISHI
  • Publication number: 20140145206
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes at least two device cells integrated in a semiconductor body. Each device cell includes a drift region, a source region, a drain region arranged between the source region and the drift region, a diode region, a pn junction between the diode region and the drift region, and a trench with a first sidewall, a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall, and a bottom. The body region adjoins the first sidewall, the diode region adjoins the second sidewall, and the pn junction adjoins the bottom of the trench. Each device cell further includes a gate electrode arranged in the trench and dielectrically insulated from the body region, the diode region and the drift region by a gate dielectric. The diode regions of the at least two device cells are distant in a lateral direction of the semiconductor body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Ralf Siemieniec, Dethard Peters, Romain Esteve
  • Publication number: 20140145260
    Abstract: A gate trench 13 is formed in a semiconductor substrate 10. The gate trench 13 is provided with a gate electrode 16 formed over a gate insulating film 14. A portion of the gate electrode 16 protrudes from the semiconductor substrate 10, and a sidewall 24 is formed over a side wall portion of the protruding portion. A body trench 25 is formed in alignment with an adjacent gate electrode 16. A cobalt silicide film 28 is formed over a surface of the gate electrode 16 and over a surface of the body trench 25. A plug 34 is formed using an SAC technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi MATSUURA, Yoshito NAKAZAWA, Tsuyoshi KACHI, Yuji YATSUDA
  • Patent number: 8729628
    Abstract: Junction field-effect transistors with vertical channels and self-aligned regrown gates and methods of making these devices are described. The methods use techniques to selectively grow and/or selectively remove semiconductor material to form a p-n junction gate along the sides of the channel and on the bottom of trenches separating source fingers. Methods of making bipolar junction transistors with self-aligned regrown base contact regions and methods of making these devices are also described. The semiconductor devices can be made in silicon carbide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Neil Merrett, Igor Sankin
  • Publication number: 20140131794
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a vertical MOSFET selection transistor that is configured to suppress leakage voltage in the memory cell without limiting the size of the memory cell. The memory selection transistor has a semiconductor body with first and second trenches that define a raised semiconductor structure having a source region, a channel region, and a drain region. A gate structure has a first gate electrode in the first trench, which extends vertically along a first side of the raised semiconductor structure, and a second gate electrode in the second trench, which extends vertically along an opposite, second side of the raised semiconductor structure. The first and second gate electrodes collectively control the flow of current between the source and drain region in the raised semiconductor structure. An electrical contact couples the drain region to a data storage element configured to store data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Wei Ting, Chun-Yang Tsai, Kuo-Ching Huang
  • Patent number: 8722434
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising trench MOSFET having trenched source-body contacts and trench Schottky rectifier having trenched anode contacts is disclosed. By employing the trenched contacts in trench MOSFET and trench Schottky rectifier, the integrated circuit is able to be shrunk to achieve low specific on-resistance for trench MOSFET, and low Vf and reverse leakage current for trench Schottky Rectifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Force MOS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20140124855
    Abstract: This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed on a semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of deep trenches with an epitaxial layer filling said deep trenches and a simultaneously grown top epitaxial layer covering areas above a top surface of said deep trenches over the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of trench MOSFET cells disposed in said top epitaxial layer with the top epitaxial layer functioning as the body region and the semiconductor substrate acting as the drain region whereby a super-junction effect is achieved through charge balance between the epitaxial layer in the deep trenches and regions in the semiconductor substrate laterally adjacent to the deep trenches. Each of the trench MOSFET cells further includes a trench gate and a gate-shielding dopant region disposed below and substantially aligned with each of the trench gates for each of the trench MOSFET cells for shielding the trench gate during a voltage breakdown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventor: François Hébert
  • Patent number: 8716746
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device, an IGBT cell includes a trench passing through a base layer of a semiconductor substrate to a drift layer of the semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film on an inner surface of the trench, a gate electrode on the gate insulating film, a first conductivity-type emitter region in a surface portion of the base layer, and a second conductivity-type first contact region in the surface portion of the base layer. The IGBT cell further includes a first conductivity-type floating layer disposed within the base layer to separate the base layer into a first portion including the emitter region and the first contact region and a second portion adjacent to the drift layer, and an interlayer insulating film disposed to cover an end of the gate electrode. A diode cell includes a second conductivity-type second contact region in the surface portion of the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Koyama, Yasushi Ookura, Akitaka Soeno, Tatsuji Nagaoka, Takahide Sugiyama, Sachiko Aoi, Hiroko Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20140117442
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes multiple buried gates which are disposed in a substrate and have a first source and a second source, an interlayer dielectric layer covering the multiple buried gates and the substrate as well as a core dual damascene plug including a first plug, a second plug and an insulating slot. The insulating slot is disposed between the first plug and the second plug so that the first plug and the second plug are mutually electrically insulated. The first plug and the second plug respectively penetrate the interlayer dielectric layer and are respectively electrically connected to the first source and the second source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: INOTERA MEMORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tzung-Han Lee, Yaw-Wen Hu, Hung-Chang Liao, Chung-Yuan Lee, Hsu Chiang, Sheng-Hsiung Wu
  • Patent number: 8709888
    Abstract: A method of forming a hybrid semiconductor structure on an SOI substrate. The method includes an integrated process flow to form a nanowire mesh device and a PDSOI device on the same SOI substrate. Also included is a semiconductor structure which includes the nanowire mesh device and the PDSOI device on the same SOI substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Josephine B. Chang, Leland Chang, Chung-Hsun Lin, Jeffrey W. Sleight
  • Patent number: 8710557
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a MOS transistor having a combined-source structure with low power consumption, which relates to a field of field effect transistor logic devices and circuits in CMOS ultra-large-scaled integrated circuits. The MOS transistor includes a control gate electrode layer, a gate dielectric layer, a semiconductor substrate, a Schottky source region, a highly-doped source region and a highly-doped drain region. An end of the control gate extends to the highly-doped source region to form a T shape, wherein the extending region of the control gate is an extending gate and the remaining region of the control gate is a main gate. The active region covered by the extending gate is a channel region, and material thereof is the substrate material. A Schottky junction is formed between the Schottky source region and the channel under the extending gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Peking University
    Inventors: Ru Huang, Qianqian Huang, Zhan Zhan, Xin Huang, Yangyuan Wang
  • Patent number: 8710584
    Abstract: A metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) includes a substrate, the substrate being heavily doped and of a first conductivity type, a substrate cap region disposed on the substrate, the substrate cap region being heavily doped and of the first conductivity type and a body region disposed on the substrate cap region, the body region being lightly doped and of a second conductivity type. The MOSFET also includes a trench extending into the body region, a source region of the first conductivity type disposed in the body region and in contact with an upper portion of a sidewall of the trench and an out-diffusion region of the first conductivity type formed such that a spacing between the source region and the out-diffusion region defines a channel region of the MOSFET extending along the sidewall of the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Izak Bencuya, Brian Sze-Ki Mo, Ashok Challa
  • Patent number: 8710569
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a DRAM portion and a logic portion thereon, an interlayer film covering the DRAM portion and logic portion of the semiconductor substrate, and plural contact plugs formed in the interlayer film in the DRAM portion and the logic portion, the plural contact plugs being in contact with a metal suicide layer on a highly-doped region of source and drain regions of first, second and third transistors in the DRAM portion and the logic portion, an interface between the plural contact plugs and the metal silicide layer being formed at a main surface in the DRAM portion and the logic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Inoue, Masayuki Hamada
  • Patent number: 8704299
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of increasing ON current while reducing channel resistance and allowing transistors to operate independently and stably, having a fin formed to protrude from the bottom of a gate electrode trench, a gate insulating film covering the surfaces of the gate electrode trench and the fin, a gate electrode embedded in a lower part of the gate electrode trench and formed to stride over the fin via the gate insulating film, a first impurity diffusion region arranged on a first side face, and a second impurity diffusion region arranged on a second side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyonori Oyu, Kensuke Okonogi, Kazuto Mori
  • Patent number: 8704295
    Abstract: Power devices which include trench Schottky barrier diodes and also (preferably) trench-gate transistors. Isolation trenches flank both the gate regions and the diode mesas, and have an additional diffusion below the bottom of the isolation trenches. The additional diffusion helps to reduce the electric field (and leakage), when the device is in the OFF state, at both the Schottky barrier and at the body diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: MaxPower Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed N. Darwish, Jun Zeng, Richard A. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 8703556
    Abstract: A FinFET device is fabricated by first receiving a FinFET precursor. The FinFET precursor includes a substrate and fin structures on the substrate. A sidewall spacer is formed along sidewall of fin structures in the precursor. A portion of fin structure is recessed to form a recessing trench with the sidewall spacer as its upper portion. A semiconductor is epitaxially grown in the recessing trench and continually grown above the recessing trench to form an epitaxial structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Kelly, Po-Ruwe Tzng, Pei-Shan Chien, Wei-Hsiung Tseng
  • Patent number: 8698238
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes preparing a substrate having a transistor region and an alignment region, forming a first trench and a second trench in the substrate of the transistor region and in the substrate of the alignment region, respectively, forming a drift region in the substrate of the transistor region, forming two third trenches respectively adjacent to two ends of the drift region, and forming an isolation pattern in the first trench, a buried dielectric pattern in the second trench, and dielectric patterns in the two third trenches, respectively. A depth of the first trench is less than a depth of the third trenches, and the depth of the first trench is equal or substantially equal to a depth of the second trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongdon Kim
  • Patent number: 8692322
    Abstract: A semiconductor power device comprises a plurality of power transistor cells each having a trenched gate disposed in a gate trench wherein the trenched gate comprising a shielding bottom electrode disposed in a bottom portion of the gate trench electrically insulated from a top gate electrode disposed in a top portion of the gate trench by an inter-electrode insulation layer. At least one of the transistor cells includes the shielding bottom electrode functioning as a source-connecting shielding bottom electrode electrically connected to a source electrode of the semiconductor power device and at least one of the transistor cells having the shielding bottom electrode functioning as a gate-connecting shielding bottom electrode electrically connected to a gate metal of the semiconductor power device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Ji Pan, Daniel Ng, Anup Bhalla, Xiaobin Wang
  • Patent number: 8686468
    Abstract: A trench semiconductor power device with a termination area structure is disclosed. The termination area structure comprises a wide trench and a trenched field plate formed not only along trench sidewall but also on trench bottom of the wide trench by doing poly-silicon CMP so that the body ion implantation is blocked by the trenched field plate on the trench bottom to prevent the termination area underneath the wide trench from being implanted. Moreover, a contact mask is used to define both trenched contacts and source regions of the device for saving a source mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Force Mos Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8680614
    Abstract: A split trench-gate MOSFET device and method for forming this device is disclosed. The device has a trench gate structure, comprising a shield electrode and two gate electrodes, wherein a substantial portion of shield electrode region is lower than the gate electrode region, and wherein a portion of the shield electrode region extends to the top surface between the two gate electrodes. The device further comprises a source metal layer, contacting to an initial layer, a well region, the shield electrode and a source region at the top surface, wherein the contact between the source metal layer and the initial layer forms a Schottky diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tiesheng Li, Rongyao Ma, Lei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140077778
    Abstract: A trench MOSFET is disclosed that includes a semiconductor substrate having a vertically oriented trench containing a gate. The trench MOSFET further includes a source, a drain, and a conductive element. The conductive element, like the gate is contained in the trench, and extends between the gate and a bottom of the trench. The conductive element is electrically isolated from the source, the gate, and the drain. When employed in a device such as a DC-DC converter, the trench MOSFET may reduce power losses and electrical and electromagnetic noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Tetsuo Sato, Tomoaki Uno, Hirokazu Kato, Nobuyoshi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20140077295
    Abstract: A method of forming an apparatus includes forming a plurality of deep trenches and a plurality of shallow trenches in a first region of a substrate. At least one of the shallow trenches is positioned between two deep trenches. The shallow trenches and the deep trenches are parallel to each other. A layer of conductive material is deposited over the first region and a second region of the substrate. The layer of conductive material is etched to define lines separated by gaps over the first region of the substrate, and active device elements over the second region of the substrate. The second region of the substrate is masked and the lines are removed from the first region of the substrate. Elongate trenches are etched where the lines were removed in the while the second region of the substrate is masked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Werner Juengling
  • Publication number: 20140070310
    Abstract: A high voltage trench MOS and its integration with low voltage integrated circuits. Embodiments include forming a first trench in a substrate, the first trench having a first width; forming a first oxide layer on side surfaces of the first trench; forming a second trench in the substrate, below the first trench, the second trench having a second width less than the first width; forming a second oxide layer on side and bottom surfaces of the second trench; forming spacers on sides of the first and second trenches; removing a portion of the second oxide layer from the bottom surface of the second trench between the spacers; filling the first and second trenches with a first poly-silicon to form a drain region; removing the spacers, exposing side surfaces of the first poly-silicon; forming a third oxide layer on the side surfaces and a top surface of the first poly-silicon; and filling a remainder of the first and second trenches with a second poly-silicon to form a gate region on each side of the drain region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Purakh Raj VERMA, Yi LIANG, Dong YEMIN
  • Publication number: 20140070309
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor substrate including a drain layer of a first conductivity type, a base layer of a second conductivity type, and a source layer of the first conductivity type, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, an insulating section, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. Gate trenches are formed on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. A curved section is formed on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate between the gate trenches in the semiconductor substrate. The base layer is disposed between the gate trenches, and the source layer is formed above the base layer at both ends of the curved section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takayuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 8669614
    Abstract: A monolithic metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET)-Schottky diode device including a chip, a MOSFET, a Schottky diode and a termination structure is provided. The chip is divided into a transistor region, a diode region and a termination region. The MOSFET is disposed on the transistor region. The Schottky diode is disposed on the diode region. The termination structure is disposed on the termination region. The transistor region and the diode region are divided by the termination region. The MOSFET and Schottky diode share the termination structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Beyond Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Hsing Cheng
  • Publication number: 20140061742
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises an isolation region, an active region, a first gate trench extending continuously from the active region to the isolation region, first and second insulating films, a first conductive layer, and a cap insulating film. The first insulating film covers an inner surface of the first gate trench. The second insulating film interposes between the first insulating film and the inner surface of the first gate trench at the active region. The first conductive layer buries a lower portion of the first gate trench so as to cover at least a part of the first insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Junichiro NISHITANI, Hirotoshi SEKI, Kenji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140061784
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device in which the threshold voltage of NMOS and the threshold voltage of PMOS are independently controllable, and a method for fabricating the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Dong-Kyun KANG
  • Patent number: 8664713
    Abstract: A power device integrated on a semiconductor substrate and having a plurality of conductive bridges within a trench gate structure. In an embodiment, a semiconductor substrate includes a trench having sidewalls and a bottom, the walls and bottom are covered with a first insulating coating layer which then also includes a conductive gate structure. An embodiment provides the formation of the conductive gate structure with covering at least the sidewalls with a second conductive coating layer of a first conductive material. This results in a conductive central region of a second conductive material having a different resistivity than the first conductive material forming a plurality of conductive bridges between said second conductive coating layer and said conductive central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.R.L.
    Inventors: Angelo Magri, Antonino Sebastiano Alessandria, Stefania Fortuna, Leonardo Fragapane
  • Patent number: 8664714
    Abstract: A power MOSFET includes an epitaxy substrate, conductive trenches, well regions and a dielectric layer. The power MOSFET further has at least one termination structure including at lest one of the conductive trenches, some of the well regions within a termination area and mutually insulated by the conductive trench, a field plate, a contact plug and a heavily-doped region. The field plate including a plate metal and the dielectric layer is on the well regions and the conductive trench within the termination area. The contact plug penetrates through the dielectric layer and connects the plate metal and one of the well regions, so the plate metal has equal potential with the connected well region through the contact plug. The well regions and the conductive trench are electrically coupled to the plate metal by the dielectric layer. The heavily-doped region is between the contact plug and the connected well region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Excelliance MOS Corporation
    Inventor: Chu-Kuang Liu
  • Publication number: 20140054692
    Abstract: In a non-insulated DC-DC converter having a circuit in which a power MOS•FET high-side switch and a power MOS•FET low-side switch are connected in series, the power MOS•FET low-side switch and a Schottky barrier diode to be connected in parallel with the power MOS•FET low-side switch are formed within one semiconductor chip. The formation region SDR of the Schottky barrier diode is disposed in the center in the shorter direction of the semiconductor chip, and on both sides thereof, the formation regions of the power MOS•FET low-side switch are disposed. From the gate finger in the vicinity of both long sides on the main surface of the semiconductor chip toward the formation region SDR of the Schottky barrier diode, a plurality of gate fingers are disposed so as to interpose the formation region SDR between them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki SHIRAISHI, Tomoaki UNO, Nobuyoshi MATSUURA
  • Patent number: 8659079
    Abstract: Provided is a transistor device including at least a vertical transistor structure. The vertical transistor structure includes a substrate, a dielectric layer, a gate, a first doped region, a second doped region, a third doped region, and a fourth doped region. The dielectric layer is disposed in a trench of the substrate. The gate is disposed in the dielectric layer. The gate defines, at both sides thereof, a first channel region and a second channel region in the substrate. The first doped region and the third doped region are disposed in the substrate and located below the first channel region and the second channel region, respectively. The second doped region and the fourth doped region are disposed in the substrate and located above the first channel region and the second channel region, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Nanya Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Ming Liao, Tieh-Chiang Wu
  • Patent number: 8658499
    Abstract: A monolithic three dimensional NAND string includes a vertical semiconductor channel and a plurality of control gate electrodes in different device levels. The string also includes a blocking dielectric layer, a charge storage region and a tunnel dielectric. A first control gate electrode is separated from a second control gate electrode by an air gap located between the major surfaces of the first and second control gate electrodes and/or the charge storage region includes silicide nanoparticles embedded in a charge storage dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuveer S. Makala, Johann Alsmeier, Yao-Sheng Lee
  • Patent number: 8653591
    Abstract: A semiconductor component arrangement and method for producing thereof is disclosed. One embodiment provides at least one power semiconductor component integrated in a semiconductor body and at least one logic component integrated in the semiconductor body. The logic component includes a trench extending into the semiconductor body proceeding from a first side, at least one gate electrode arranged in the trench and insulated from the semiconductor body by a gate dielectric, and at least one source zone and at least one drain zone of a first conduction type, which are formed in the semiconductor body in a manner adjacent to the gate dielectric and in a manner spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction of the trench and between which at least one body zone of a second conduction type is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Markus Zundel, Norbert Krischke
  • Patent number: 8653584
    Abstract: A dual vertical channel transistor includes a tuning fork-shaped substrate body; a buried bit line embedded at a bottom of a recess between two prong portions of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body; an out-diffused drain region adjacent to the buried bit line in the tuning fork-shaped substrate body; a source region situated at a top portion of each of the two prong portions of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body; an epitaxial portion connecting the two prong portions of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body between the out-diffused drain region and the source region; a front gate situated on a first side surface of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body; and a back gate situated on a second side surface opposite to the first side surface of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nanya Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Shing-Hwa Renn
  • Patent number: 8653593
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer provided with a gate trench, a first conductivity type source region exposed on a surface side of the semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type channel region formed on a side of the source region closer to aback surface of the semiconductor layer to be in contact with the source region, a first conductivity type drain region formed on a side of the channel region to be in contact with the channel region, a gate insulating film formed on an inner surface of the gate trench, and agate electrode embedded inside the gate insulating film in the gate trench, while the channel region includes a channel portion formed along the side surface of the gate trench and a projection projecting from an end portion of the channel portion closer to the back surface of the semiconductor layer toward the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kengo Omori
  • Publication number: 20140042535
    Abstract: Methods and systems for power semiconductor devices integrating multiple trench transistors on a single chip. Multiple power transistors (or active regions) are paralleled, but one transistor has a lower threshold voltage. This reduces the voltage drop when the transistor is forward-biased. In an alternative embodiment, the power device with lower threshold voltage is simply connected as a depletion diode, to thereby shunt the body diodes of the active transistors, without affecting turn-on and ON-state behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: MAXPOWER SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventor: MaxPower Semiconductor, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20140042534
    Abstract: A trenched power semiconductor device with enhanced breakdown voltage is provided. The trenched power semiconductor device has a first trench penetrating the body region located between two neighboring gate trenches. A polysilicon structure with a conductivity type identical to that of the body region is located in a lower portion of the first trench and spaced from the body region with a predetermined distance. A dielectric structure is located on the polysilicon structure and at least extended to the body region. Source regions are located in an upper portion of the body region. A heavily doped region located in the body region is extended to the bottom of the body region. A conductive structure is electrically connected to the heavily doped region and the source region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: GREAT POWER SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventor: Chun-Ying YEH
  • Publication number: 20140042536
    Abstract: Exemplary power semiconductor devices with features providing increased breakdown voltage and other benefits are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Yedinak, Dean E. Probst, Daniel Calafut
  • Patent number: 8648415
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an impurity region in the semiconductor substrate, and a conductive layer contacting a top surface of the impurity region and at least a side surface of the impurity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Inventor: Koji Taniguchi