With Means To Increase Breakdown Voltage Patents (Class 257/339)
  • Publication number: 20140264583
    Abstract: A withstand voltage region is formed to surround a logic circuit formation region. A high-voltage MOSFET for level shifting is formed in part of the withstand voltage region. A p? opening region is formed between a drain region of the high-voltage MOSFET and the logic circuit formation region. A shield layer connected to the negative electrode side of a power supply connected to the logic circuit formation region is disposed on the p? opening region. Thus, it is possible to provide a high-voltage semiconductor device including a level shifting circuit capable of making stable operation during the switching of a high-voltage IC and with long-term reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Yamaji, Hitoshi Sumida
  • Publication number: 20140264582
    Abstract: A superjunction device includes a substrate having first and second main surfaces and a first doping concentration of a first dopant. A first semiconductor layer having a second doping concentration of the first dopant is formed on the substrate. A second semiconductor layer is formed on the first layer and has a main surface. At least one trench extends from the main surface at least partially into the first semiconductor layer. A first region having a third doping concentration of the first dopant extends at least partially between the main surface and the first layer. A second region having a fourth doping concentration of a second dopant is disposed between the first region and a trench sidewall and extends at least partially between the main surface and the first layer. A third region having a fifth doping concentration of the first dopant is disposed proximate the main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: ICEMOS TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Samuel ANDERSON, Takeshi ISHIGURO, Kenji SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 8835258
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a high voltage device and a manufacturing method thereof. The high voltage device is formed in a first conductive type substrate, wherein the substrate has an upper surface. The high voltage device includes: a second conductive type buried layer, which is formed in the substrate; a first conductive type well, which is formed between the upper surface and the buried layer; and a second conductive type well, which is connected to the first conductive type well and located at different horizontal positions. The second conductive type well includes a well lower surface, which has a first part and a second part, wherein the first part is directly above the buried layer and electrically coupled to the buried layer; and the second part is not located above the buried layer and forms a PN junction with the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Richtek Technology Corporation, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Huan-Ping Chu
  • Patent number: 8836025
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first distance is a distance between both ends of the first insulating film in a direction connecting the fourth semiconductor layer and the sixth semiconductor layer. The first distance in the first region is longer than the first distance in the second region. A second distance is a distance between an edge of the second insulating film on an inner peripheral side of the second semiconductor layer and an edge of the third semiconductor layer on an outer peripheral side of the second semiconductor layer. The second distance in the first region is shorter than the second distance in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mariko Shimizu, Jun Morioka, Keita Takahashi, Kanako Komatsu, Masahito Nishigoori
  • Patent number: 8836028
    Abstract: In a general aspect, a power device can include at least one N-type epitaxial layer disposed on a substrate and a plurality of N-pillars and P-pillars that define alternating P-N-pillars in the at least one N-type epitaxial layer. The power device can also include an active region and a termination region, where the termination region surrounds the active region. The alternating P-N-pillars can be disposed in both the active region and the termination region, where the termination region can include a predetermined number of floating P-pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Yedinak, Mark L. Rinehimer, Praveen Muraleedharan Shenoy, Jaegil Lee, Dwayne S. Reichl, Harold Heidenreich
  • Publication number: 20140252472
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a surface, a composite body region disposed in the substrate, having a first conductivity type, and comprising a body contact region at the surface of the substrate and a well in which a channel is formed during operation, a source region disposed in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the composite body region and having a second conductivity type, and an isolation region disposed between the body contact region and the source region. The composite body region further includes a body conduction path region contiguous with and under the source region, and the body conduction path region has a higher dopant concentration level than the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Weize Chen, Patrice M. Parris
  • Patent number: 8829572
    Abstract: Method of making a semiconductor device that includes forming a source and a drain in a substrate, forming a gate on the substrate between the source and drain, forming a substrate contact in electrical contact with the source, and forming an electrical contact to the source, drain and gate, and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Basanth Jagannathan, John J. Pekarik, Christopher M. Schnabel
  • Patent number: 8829568
    Abstract: An insulating layer, an undoped first GaN layer and an AlGaN layer are laminated in this order on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. A surface barrier layer formed by a two-dimensional electron gas is provided in an interface between the first GaN layer and the AlGaN layer. A recess (first recess) which reaches the first GaN layer but does not pierce the first GaN layer is formed in a surface layer of the AlGaN layer. A first high withstand voltage transistor and a control circuit are formed integrally on the aforementioned semiconductor substrate. The first high withstand voltage transistor is formed in the first recess and on a surface of the AlGaN layer. The control circuit includes an n-channel MOSFET formed in part of the first recess, and a depression type n-channel MOSFET formed on a surface of the AlGaN layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsunori Ueno
  • Patent number: 8829614
    Abstract: This invention discloses a method for manufacturing a semiconductor power device in a semiconductor substrate comprises an active cell area and a termination area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Lingpeng Guan, Anup Bhalla, Madhur Bobde, Tinggang Zhu
  • Publication number: 20140246721
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a first conductivity type n-type drift layer; a second conductivity type VLD region which is formed on a chip inner circumferential side of a termination structure region provided on one principal surface of the n-type drift layer and which is higher in concentration than the n-type drift layer; a second conductivity type first clip layer which is formed on a chip outer circumferential side of the VLD region so as to be separated from the VLD region and which is higher in concentration than the n-type drift layer; and a first conductivity type channel stopper layer which is formed on a chip outer circumferential side of the first clip layer so as to be separated from the first clip layer and which is higher in concentration than the n-type drift layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hong-fei LU
  • Patent number: 8823096
    Abstract: A device includes a semiconductor region in a semiconductor chip, a gate dielectric layer over the semiconductor region, and a gate electrode over the gate dielectric. A drain region is disposed at a top surface of the semiconductor region and adjacent to the gate electrode. A gate spacer is on a sidewall of the gate electrode. A dielectric layer is disposed over the gate electrode and the gate spacer. A conductive field plate is over the dielectric layer, wherein the conductive field plate has a portion on a drain side of the gate electrode. A deep metal via is disposed in the semiconductor region. A source electrode is underlying the semiconductor region, wherein the source electrode is electrically shorted to the conductive field plate through the deep metal via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Po-Chih Su, Hsueh-Liang Chou, Ruey-Hsin Liu, Chun-Wai Ng
  • Publication number: 20140239391
    Abstract: An LDMOS is formed with a field plate over the n? drift region, coplanar with the gate stack, and having a higher work function than the gate stack. Embodiments include forming a first conductivity type well, having a source, surrounded by a second conductivity type well, having a drain, in a substrate, forming first and second coplanar gate stacks on the substrate over a portion of the first well and a portion of the second well, respectively, and tuning the work functions of the first and second gate stacks to obtain a higher work function for the second gate stack. Other embodiments include forming the first gate stack of a high-k metal gate and the second gate stack of a field plate on a gate oxide layer, forming the first and second gate stacks with different gate electrode materials on a common gate oxide, and forming the gate stacks separated from each other and with different gate dielectric materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte.Ltd.
    Inventors: Eng Huat TOH, Jae Gon LEE, Chung Foong TAN, Elgin QUEK
  • Publication number: 20140239390
    Abstract: A lateral device includes a gate region connected to a drain region by a drift layer. An insulation region adjoins the drift layer between the gate region and the drain region. Permanent charges are embedded in the insulation region, sufficient to cause inversion in the insulation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MaxPower Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed N. Darwish, Amit Paul
  • Publication number: 20140231909
    Abstract: In a semiconductor substrate with a first surface and a working surface parallel to the first surface, columnar first and second super junction regions of a first and a second conductivity type are formed. The first and second super junction regions extend in a direction perpendicular to the first surface and form a super junction structure. The semiconductor portion is thinned such that, after the thinning, a distance between the first super junction regions having the second conductivity type and a second surface obtained from the working surface does not exceed 30 ?m. Impurities are implanted into the second surface to form one or more implanted zones. The embodiments combine super junction approaches with backside implants enabled by thin wafer technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG
    Inventors: Armin Willmeroth, Franz Hirler, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Uwe Wahl, Winfried Kaindl
  • Publication number: 20140231903
    Abstract: A super junction semiconductor device includes a semiconductor portion with parallel first and second surfaces. An impurity layer of a first conductivity type is formed in the semiconductor portion. Between the first surface and the impurity layer a super junction structure includes first columns of the first conductivity type and second columns of a second conductivity type. A sign of a compensation rate between the first and second columns may change along a vertical extension of the columns perpendicular to the first surface. A body zone of the second conductivity type is formed between the first surface and one of the second columns. A field extension zone of the second conductivity type may be electrically connected to the body zone or a field extension zone of the first conductivity type may be connected to the impurity layer. The field extension zone improves the avalanche characteristics of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG
    Inventors: Armin Willmeroth, Franz Hirler, Uwe Wahl
  • Publication number: 20140231911
    Abstract: In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a channel region disposed in a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectric disposed on the channel region and a drift region disposed in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the channel region. The apparatus can further include a field plate having an end portion disposed between a top surface of the semiconductor substrate and the gate dielectric The end portion can include a surface in contact with the gate dielectric, the surface having a first portion aligned along a first plane non-parallel to a second plane along which a second portion of the surface is aligned, the first plane being non-parallel to the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and the second plane being non-parallel to the top surface of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sunglyong Kim, Mark Schmidt, Christopher Nassar, Steven Leibiger
  • Publication number: 20140231910
    Abstract: A super junction semiconductor device includes a semiconductor portion with a first surface and a parallel second surface. A doped layer of a first conductivity type is formed at least in a cell area. Columnar first super junction regions of a second, opposite conductivity type extend in a direction perpendicular to the first surface. Columnar second super junction regions of the first conductivity type separate the first super junction regions from each other. The first and second super junction regions form a super junction structure between the first surface and the doped layer. A distance between the first super junction regions and the second surface does not exceed 30 ?m. The on-state or forward resistance of low-voltage devices rated for reverse breakdown voltages below 1000 V can be defined by the resistance of the super junction structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG
    Inventors: Armin Willmeroth, Franz Hirler, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Uwe Wahl, Winfried Kaindl
  • Publication number: 20140231912
    Abstract: A super junction semiconductor device includes a super junction structure that is formed in a semiconductor body having a first and a second, parallel surface. The super junction structure includes first areas of the first conductivity type and second areas of a second conductivity type which is the opposite of the first conductivity type. In a cell area surrounded by an edge area, the super junction structure has a first nominal breakdown voltage in a first portion and a second nominal breakdown voltage, which differs from the first nominal breakdown voltage, in a second portion to provide improved avalanche ruggedness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Armin Willmeroth, Gerald Deboy
  • Patent number: 8809952
    Abstract: A transistor component includes an active transistor region arranged in the semiconductor body. And insulation region surrounds the active transistor region in the semiconductor body in a ring-shaped manner. A source zone, a drain zone, a body zone and a drift zone are disposed in the active transistor region. The source zone and the drain zone are spaced apart in a lateral direction of the semiconductor body and the body zone is arranged between the source zone and the drift zone and the drift zone is arranged between the body zone and the drain zone. A gate and field electrode is arranged over the active transistor region. The dielectric layer has a first thickness in a region near the body zone and a second thickness in a region near the drift zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Erhard Landgraf, Thomas Bertrams, Claus Dahl, Henning Feick, Andreas Pribil
  • Patent number: 8809949
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor component, including: a drift zone arranged between a first and a second connection zone; a channel control layer of an amorphous semi-insulating material arranged adjacent to the drift zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20140225192
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure comprises a substrate having a first conductive type; a deep well having a second conductive type formed in the substrate; a first well having the first conductive type and a second well having the second conductive type both formed in the deep well and the second well spaced apart from the first well; a gate electrode formed on the substrate and disposed between the first and second wells; an isolation extending down from the surface of the substrate and disposed between the gate electrode and the second well; a conductive plug including a first portion and a second portion electrically connected to each other, and the first portion electrically connected to the gate electrode, and the second portion penetrating into the isolation. The bottom surface of the second portion of the conductive plug is covered by the isolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chiu-Te Lee, Ke-Feng Lin, Shu-Wen Lin, Kun-Huang Yu, Chih-Chung Wang, Te-Yuan Wu
  • Publication number: 20140225191
    Abstract: A transistor advantageously embodied in a laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device having a gate located over a channel region recessed into a semiconductor substrate and a method of forming the same. In one embodiment, the laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device includes a source/drain having a lightly doped region located adjacent the channel region and a heavily doped region located adjacent the lightly doped region. The laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device further includes an oppositely doped well located under and within the channel region, and a doped region, located between the heavily doped region and the oppositely doped well, having a doping concentration profile less than a doping concentration profile of the heavily doped region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Enpirion, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashraf W. Lotfi, Jian Tian
  • Patent number: 8803225
    Abstract: A tunneling field effect transistor and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The tunneling field effect transistor includes: a semiconductor substrate and a drain layer formed in the semiconductor substrate, in which the drain layer is first type heavily doped; an epitaxial layer formed on the drain layer, with an isolation region formed in the epitaxial layer; a buried layer formed in the epitaxial layer, in which the buried layer is second type lightly doped; a source formed in the buried layer, in which the source is second type heavily doped; a gate dielectric layer formed on the epitaxial layer, and a gate formed on the gate dielectric layer; and a source metal contact layer formed on the source, and a drain metal contact layer formed under the drain layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Ning Cui, Renrong Liang, Jing Wang, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 8803252
    Abstract: A drift layer forms a first main surface of a silicon carbide layer and has a first conductivity type. A source region is provided to be spaced apart from the drift layer by a body region, forms a second main surface, and has the first conductivity type. A relaxing region is provided within the drift layer and has a distance Ld from the first main surface. The relaxing region has a second conductivity type and has an impurity dose amount Drx. The drift layer has an impurity concentration Nd between the first main surface and the relaxing region. Relation of Drx>Ld·Nd is satisfied. Thus, a silicon carbide semiconductor device having a high breakdown voltage is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Wada, Takeyoshi Masuda, Toru Hiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8803251
    Abstract: This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate comprising a heavily doped region formed on a lightly doped region and having an active cell area and an edge termination area. The edge termination area comprises a plurality of termination trenches formed in the heavily doped region with the termination trenches lined with a dielectric layer and filled with a conductive material therein. The edge termination further includes a plurality of buried guard rings formed as doped regions in the lightly doped region of the semiconductor substrate immediately adjacent to the termination trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Yeeheng Lee, Madhur Bobde, Yongping Ding, Jongoh Kim, Anup Bhalla
  • Publication number: 20140217500
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an epitaxial layer of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type, a body region of a second (opposite) conductivity type extending into the epitaxial layer from a main surface of the epitaxial layer, a source region of the first conductivity type disposed in the body region, and a channel region extending laterally in the body region from the source region along the main surface. A charge compensation region of the second conductivity type can be provided under the body region which extends in a direction parallel to the main surface and terminates prior to a pn-junction between the source and body regions at the main surface, and/or an additional region of the first conductivity type which has at least one peak doping concentration each of which occurs deeper in the epitaxial layer from the main surface than a peak doping concentration of the device channel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Adrian Finney, Andrew Wood
  • Patent number: 8786015
    Abstract: A super-junction semiconductor device includes a drift layer including an alternating-conductivity-type layer that includes n-type region and p-type region arranged alternately in parallel to the first major surface of an n-type substrate. These alternating regions extend deep in a direction perpendicular to the first major surface. The first major surface includes a main device region with a gate electrode and a main source electrode and sensing device region with a gate electrode and a sensing source electrode. There is a common drain electrode on the second major surface of the substrate. There is a separation region between the main device region and the sensing device region. It includes an n-type region and p-type regions in the n-type region. The p-type regions are in an electrically floating state in the directions parallel and perpendicular to the first alternating-conductivity-type layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Tamura, Yasuhiko Onishi
  • Patent number: 8779509
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a doped layer which contains a first dopant of a first conductivity type. In the doped layer, a counter-doped zone is formed in an edge area that surrounds an element area of the semiconductor device. The counter-doped zone contains at least the first dopant and a second dopant of a second conductivity type, which is the opposite of the first conductivity type. A concentration of the second dopant is at least 20% and at most 100% of a concentration of the first dopant. The dopants in the counter-doped zone decrease charge carrier mobility and minority carrier lifetime such that the dynamic robustness of the semiconductor device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Schulze, Anton Mauder, Franz Hirler
  • Publication number: 20140191317
    Abstract: An RF LDMOS device is disclosed, including: a substrate having a first conductivity type; a channel doped region having the first conductivity type and a drift region having a second conductivity type, each in an upper portion of the substrate, the channel doped region having a first end in lateral contact with a first end of the drift region; a first well having the first conductivity type in the substrate, the first well having a top portion in contact with both of a bottom of the first end of the channel doped region and a bottom of the first end of the drift region; and a second well having the first conductivity type in the substrate, the second well having a top portion in contact with a bottom of a second end of the drift region. A method of forming such an RF LDMOS device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Wensheng Qian
  • Patent number: 8772869
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor layer; second and third semiconductor layers above and alternatively arranged along a direction parallel to an upper surface of the first semiconductor layer; and plural fourth semiconductor layers provided on some of immediately upper regions of the third semiconductor layer. An array period of the fourth semiconductor layers is larger than that of the second semiconductor layer. A thickness of part of the gate insulating film in an immediate upper region of a central portion between the fourth semiconductor layers is thicker than a thickness of part of the gate insulating film in an immediate upper region of the fourth semiconductor layers. Sheet impurity concentrations of the second and third semiconductor layers in the central portion are higher than a sheet impurity concentration of the third semiconductor layer in an immediately lower region of the fourth semiconductor layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Wataru Saito, Syotaro Ono
  • Patent number: 8772867
    Abstract: A high voltage high side DMOS removing the N-buried layer from the DMOS bottom provides lower Ron*A at given breakdown voltage. The high voltage high side DMOS has a P-type substrate, an epitaxial layer, a field oxide, an N-type well region a gate oxide, a gate poly, a P-type base region, a deep P-type region, an N-type lightly doped well region, a first N-type highly doped region, a second N-type highly doped region and a P-type highly doped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventors: Ji-Hyoung Yoo, Martin E. Garnett
  • Publication number: 20140175545
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (DMOS) device and a manufacturing method thereof. The DMOS device includes: a first conductive type substrate, a second conductive type high voltage well, a gate, a first conductive type body region, a second conductive type source, a second conductive type drain, a first conductive type body electrode, and a first conductive type floating region. The floating region is formed in the body region, which is electrically floating and is electrically isolated from the source and the gate, such that the electrostatic discharge (ESD) effect is mitigated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Tzu-Cheng Kao, Jian-Hsing Lee, Jin-Lian Su, Huan-Ping Chu, Hung-Der Su
  • Patent number: 8754474
    Abstract: A Lateral Double Diffused Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (LDMOS) semiconductor device includes a substrate; a gate region, a source region, and a drain region on and/or over the substrate, a well region at one side of the drain region, and a guardring region disposed at one side of the well region and connected electrically to the well region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Choul Joo Ko
  • Publication number: 20140159152
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device is provided, which can prevent an electric field from concentrating on a diode region, and can improve a breakdown voltage by creating an impurity concentration gradient in the diode region to increase from a termination region to an active cell region to cause reverse current to be distributed to the active cell region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: KEC Corporation
    Inventor: Tae Wan Kim
  • Publication number: 20140159103
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus to increase breakdown voltage of a semiconductor power device. A bonded wafer is formed by bonding a device wafer to a handle wafer with an intermediate oxide layer. The device wafer is thinned substantially from its original thickness. A power device is formed within the device wafer through a semiconductor fabrication process. The handle wafer is patterned to remove section of the handle wafer below the power device, resulting in a breakdown voltage improvement for the power device as well as a uniform electrostatic potential under reverse biasing conditions of the power device, wherein the breakdown voltage is determined. Other methods and structures are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Long-Shih Lin, Fu-Hsiung Yang, Kun-Ming Huang, Ming-Yi Lin, Po-Tao Chu
  • Patent number: 8748980
    Abstract: The present technology discloses a U-shape RESURF MOSFET device. Wherein the MOSFET device comprises a drain having a drain contact region and a drift region, a source, a body, a gate and a recessed-FOX structure. Wherein the recessed-FOX structure is between the gate and the drift region vertically and between the body and the drain contact region laterally, and wherein the recessed-FOX structure is configured to make the drift region into a U shape. The present technology further discloses the depth of the drift region is controlled by adjusting a layout width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeesung Jung
  • Publication number: 20140151798
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a transistor formed in a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface. The transistor includes a source region, a drain region, a channel region, a drift zone, and a gate electrode being adjacent to the channel region. The gate electrode is configured to control a conductivity of a channel formed in the channel region, the channel region and the drift zone are disposed along a first direction between the source region and the drain region, the first direction being parallel to the first main surface. The channel region has a shape of a first ridge extending along the first direction, and the transistor includes a first field plate arranged adjacent to the drift zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Andreas Meiser, Till Schloesser
  • Patent number: 8742498
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a high voltage semiconductor device is provided. Firstly, a substrate is provided, wherein the substrate has a first active zone and a second active zone. Then, a first ion implantation process is performed to dope the substrate by a first mask layer, thereby forming a first-polarity doped region at the two ends of the first active zone and a periphery of the second active zone. After the first mask layer is removed, a second ion implantation process is performed to dope the substrate by a second mask layer, thereby forming a second-polarity doped region at the two ends of the second active zone and a periphery of the first active zone. After the second mask layer is removed, a first gate conductor structure and a second gate conductor structure are formed over the middle segments of the first active zone and the second active zone, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Fu-Chun Chien, Ching-Wei Teng, Nien-Chung Li, Chih-Chung Wang, Te-Yuan Wu, Li-Che Chen, Chih-Chun Pu, Yu-Ting Yeh, Kuan-Wen Lu
  • Publication number: 20140145262
    Abstract: The invention discloses a high-voltage LDMOS integrated device, which is interdigitally structured in a plan view and which including: a first area corresponding to a source fingertip area, wherein a first sectional structure of the first area particularly includes: a first drain; and a first longitudinal voltage-withstanding buffer layer located below the first drain and consisted of a first deep N-well and a first low-voltage N-well, wherein the first low-voltage N-well is located in the first deep-N well, and the first deep-N well is located in a P-type substrate; and a second area non-overlapping with the first area, wherein a second sectional structure of the second area particularly includes: a second drain; and a second longitudinal voltage-withstanding buffer layer located below the second drain and consisted of a second deep N-well and a second low-voltage N-well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicants: Founder Microelectronics International Co., Ltd., Peking University Founder Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guangran Pan, Jincheng Shi, Zhenjie Gao, Yan Wen
  • Patent number: 8735981
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transistor component having a control structure with a channel control layer of an amorphous semiconductor insulating material extending in a current flow direction along a channel zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8723258
    Abstract: An ESD tolerance of an LDMOS transistor is improved. An N+ type source layer shaped in a ladder and having a plurality of openings in its center is formed in a surface of a P type base layer using a gate electrode and a resist mask. A P+ type contact layer is formed to be buried in the opening. At that time, a distance from an edge of the opening, that is an edge of the P+ type contact layer, to an edge of the N+ type source layer is set to a predetermined distance. The predetermined distance is equal to a distance at which an HBM+ESD tolerance of the LDMOS transistor, which increases as the distance increases, begins to saturate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Nakaya, Tetsuro Hirano, Shuji Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8723256
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The device includes a semiconductor substrate and a gate structure thereon. A well region is formed in the semiconductor substrate. A drain region and a source region are respectively formed in the semiconductor substrate inside and outside of the well region. At least one set of the first and second heavily doped regions is formed in the well region between the drain region and the source region, wherein the first and second heavily doped regions are stacked vertically from bottom to top and have a doping concentration which is larger than that of the well region. The semiconductor substrate and the first heavily doped region have a first conductivity type and the well region and the second heavily doped region have a second conductivity type. A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Cheng Lin, Shang-Hui Tu, Shin-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 8716792
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has a cell field with drift zones of a first type of conductivity and charge carrier compensation zones of a second type of conductivity complementary to the first type. An edge region which surrounds the cell field has a higher blocking strength than the cell field, the edge region having a near-surface area which is undoped to more weakly doped than the drift zones, and beneath the near-surface area at least one buried, vertically extending complementarily doped zone is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Anton Mauder, Franz Hirler, Armin Willmeroth, Michael Rueb, Holger Kapels
  • Patent number: 8716789
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes an element portion in which MOSFET elements are provided and a termination portion provided around the element portion, and has pillar layers provided respectively in parallel to each other in a semiconductor substrate. The device includes a first trench and a first insulation film. The first trench is provided between end portions of the pillar layers, in the semiconductor substrate at the termination portion exposed from a source electrode of the MOSFET elements. The first insulation film is provided on a side surface and a bottom surface of the first trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Syotaro Ono, Masaru Izumisawa, Hiroshi Ohta, Hiroaki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8716793
    Abstract: Disclosed are an LDMOS device and a method for manufacturing the same capable of decreasing the concentration of a drift region between a source finger tip and a drain, thereby increasing a breakdown voltage. An LDMOS device includes a gate which is formed on a substrate, a source and a drain which are separately arranged on both sides of the substrate with the gate interposed therebetween, a field oxide film which is formed to have a step between the gate and the drain, a drift region which is formed of first condition type impurity ions between the gate and the drain on the substrate, and at least one internal field ring which is formed inside the drift region and formed by selectively ion-implanting second conduction type impurity ions in accordance with the step of the field oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Yoo, Jong Min Kim
  • Patent number: 8716791
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices, such as LDMOS devices, are described that include a plurality of trench regions formed in an extended drain region of the devices. In one or more implementations, the semiconductor devices include a substrate having an extended drain region, a source region, and a drain region, all of the first conductivity type, formed proximate to a surface of the substrate. A gate is positioned over the surface and between the source region and the drain region. The gate is configured to receive a voltage so that a conduction region may be formed at least partially below the gate to allow charge carriers (e.g., majority carriers) to travel between the source region and the drain region. A plurality of trench regions are formed within the extended drain region that are configured to increase resistivity within the extended drain region when charge carriers travel between the source region and the drain region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Farshid Iravani, Timothy K. McGuire
  • Patent number: 8716811
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first conduction-type semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor region of a first conduction-type formed on the semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor region of a second conduction-type formed on a surface of the first semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region of the second conduction-type formed to be separated from the second semiconductor region on the surface of the first semiconductor region, a fourth semiconductor region of the second conduction-type formed to be separated from the second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region on the surface of the first semiconductor region, and a first electrode connected to the second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Mori, Chihiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20140117444
    Abstract: A lateral MOSFET comprises a plurality of isolation regions formed in a substrate, wherein a first isolation region is of a top surface lower than a top surface of the substrate. The lateral MOSFET further comprises a gate electrode layer having a first gate electrode layer formed over the first isolation region and a second gate electrode layer formed over the top surface of the substrate, wherein a top surface of the first gate electrode layer is lower than a top surface of the second gate electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Huei-Ru Liu, Chien-Chih Chou, Kong-Beng Thei
  • Publication number: 20140117445
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a first drift layer, and a second drift layer. The first drift layer includes a first epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type, a plurality of first first-conductivity-type pillar layers, and a plurality of first second-conductivity-type pillar layers. The second drift layer is formed on the first drift layer and includes a second epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type, a plurality of second second-conductivity-type pillar layers, a plurality of second first-conductivity-type pillar layers, a plurality of third second-conductivity-type pillar layers, and a plurality of third first-conductivity-type pillar layers. The plurality of second second-conductivity-type pillar layers are connected to the first second-conductivity-type pillar layers. The plurality of second first-conductivity-type pillar layers are connected to the first first-conductivity-type pillar layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kiyoshi KIMURA, Yasuto SUMI, Hiroshi OHTA, Hiroyuki IRIFUNE
  • Patent number: 8710571
    Abstract: A polarity switching member of a dot inversion system is revealed. A first transistor and a second transistor are disposed in a P-well while a N-well is arranged in the P-well, located between the first transistor and the second transistor. The N-well includes a third transistor and a fourth transistor. One end of the third transistor is coupled to one end of the first transistor to generate a first input end and one end of the fourth transistor is coupled to one end of the second transistor to generate a second input end. The other end of the first transistor, the other end of the second transistor, the other end of the third transistor, and the other end of the fourth transistor are coupled to generate an output end. Thereby, by switching of voltage polarity of the P-well and the N-well, a larger range of output voltage difference is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp
    Inventor: Min-Nan Liao