Plural Sections Connected In Parallel (e.g., Power Mosfet) Patents (Class 257/341)
  • Patent number: 8872257
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first region including: a first semiconductor layer; a first semiconductor region; a second semiconductor region; a third semiconductor region having higher impurity concentration than the first semiconductor region; a first electrode; a second electrode; an insulating film; a third electrode; a fourth electrode, a second region including a pad electrode, and the third region including: the first semiconductor layer; the first semiconductor region; a third semiconductor region; the first electrode; the second electrode; and a first insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeru Matsuoka, Yasuhito Saito, Seiichiro Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 8871594
    Abstract: According to a process for manufacturing an integrated power device, projections and depressions are formed in a semiconductor body that extend in a first direction and are arranged alternated in succession in a second direction, transversely to the first direction. Further provided are a first conduction region and a second conduction region. The first conduction region and the second conduction region define a current flow direction parallel to the first direction, along the projections and the depressions. To form the projections and the depressions, portions of the semiconductor body that extend in the first direction and correspond to the depressions, are selectively oxidized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Simone Dario Mariani, Andrea Paleari, Stephane Wen Yung Bach, Paolo Gattari
  • Patent number: 8866223
    Abstract: An embodiment of a process for manufacturing a power semiconductor device envisages the steps of: providing a body of semiconductor material having a top surface and having a first conductivity; forming columnar regions having a second type of conductivity within the body of semiconductor material, and surface extensions of the columnar regions above the top surface; and forming doped regions having the second type of conductivity, in the proximity of the top surface and in contact with the columnar regions. The doped regions are formed at least partially within the surface extensions of the columnar regions; the surface extensions and the doped regions have a non-planar surface pattern, in particular with a substantially V-shaped groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alfio Guarnera, Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Ferruccio Frisina
  • Patent number: 8866222
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body and a source metallization arranged on a first surface of the body. The body includes: a first semiconductor layer including a compensation-structure; a second semiconductor layer adjoining the first layer, comprised of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and having a doping charge per horizontal area lower than a breakdown charge per area of the semiconductor material; a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type adjoining the second layer and comprising at least one of a self-charging charge trap, a floating field plate and a semiconductor region of a second conductivity type forming a pn-junction with the third layer; and a fourth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type adjoining the third layer and having a maximum doping concentration higher than that of the third layer. The first semiconductor layer is arranged between the first surface and the second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Hans Weber, Stefan Gamerith, Franz Hirler
  • Patent number: 8859375
    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 includes isolation regions defining a device region. The high voltage device includes: a drift region, located in the device region, doped with second conductive type impurities; a gate in the device region and on the surface of the substrate; and a second conductive type source and drain in the device region, at different sides of the gate respectively. From top view, the concentration of the second conductive type impurities of the drift region is distributed substantially periodically along horizontal and vertical directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Richtek Technology Corporation, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Chien-Hao Huang
  • Patent number: 8860132
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a source region, a drain region, a body region, and a drift region. The drift region is arranged between the body and the drain and the body is arranged between the source and the drift region in a semiconductor body. A gate electrode is adjacent the body and dielectrically insulated from the body by a gate dielectric. A drift control region is adjacent the drift region and dielectrically insulated from the drift region by a drift control region dielectric. A drain electrode adjoins the drain. The device also includes an injection control region of the same doping type as the drain, but more lowly doped. The injection control region adjoins the drift control region dielectric, extends in a first direction along the drift control region, and adjoins the drain in the first direction and an injection region in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventor: Franz Hirler
  • Patent number: 8860134
    Abstract: A trench power device includes a semiconductor layer, a trench gate structure, a trench source structure, and a contact. The semiconductor layer has an epitaxial layer, a doped body region, a S/D region, and a doped contact-carrying region. The doped body region is formed in the epitaxial layer, the S/D region is formed in the doped body region, and the doped contact-carrying region is formed in the doped body region and outside a projecting portion defined by orthogonally projecting from the S/D region to the doped body region. The trench gate structure is embedded in the S/D region, the doped body region, and the epitaxial layer. The trench source structure is embedded in the doped body region and the epitaxial layer, and is connected to the doped contact-carrying region. The contact is connected to the S/D region and the doped contact-carrying region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sinopower Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Po-Hsien Li
  • Patent number: 8860098
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes structures and processes to produce high voltage JFETs in wide-bandgap materials, most particularly in Silicon Carbide. The present disclosure also provides for products produced by the methods of the present disclosure and for apparatuses used to perform the methods of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: United Silicon Carbide, Inc.
    Inventors: Anup Bhalla, Peter Alexandrov
  • Patent number: 8860130
    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 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: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventor: François Hébert
  • Patent number: 8859373
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a high voltage device and a manufacturing method thereof. The high voltage device is formed in a substrate. The high voltage device includes: a gate, a source and drain, a drift region, and a mitigation region. The gate is formed on an upper surface of the substrate. The source and drain are located at both sides of the gate below the upper surface respectively, and the source and drain are separated by the gate. The drift region is located at least between the gate and the drain. The mitigation region is formed below the drift region, and the drift region has an edge closer to the source. A vertical distance between this edge of the drift region and the mitigation region is less than or equal to five times of a depth of the drift region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Richtek Technology Corporation, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Chien-Wei Chiu
  • Patent number: 8853772
    Abstract: High-mobility vertical trench DMOSFETs and methods for manufacturing are disclosed. A source region, a drain region or a channel region of a high-mobility vertical trench DMOSFET may comprise silicon germanium (SiGe) that increases the mobility of the charge carriers in the channel region. In some embodiments the channel region may be strained to increase channel charge carriers mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Alpha & Omega Semiconductor Ltd
    Inventor: François Hébert
  • Patent number: 8853780
    Abstract: A device includes a semiconductor substrate, source and drain regions in the semiconductor substrate, a channel region in the semiconductor substrate between the source and drain regions through which charge carriers flow during operation from the source region to the drain region, and a drift region in the semiconductor substrate, on which the drain region is disposed, and through which the charge carriers drift under an electric field arising from application of a bias voltage between the source and drain regions. A PN junction along the drift region includes a first section at the drain region and a second section not at the drain region. The drift region has a lateral profile that varies such that the first section of the PN junction is shallower than the second section of the PN junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongning Yang, Daniel J. Blomberg, Xu Cheng, Xin Lin, Won Gi Min, Zhihong Zhang, Jiang-Kai Zuo
  • Patent number: 8853779
    Abstract: An embodiment of a process for manufacturing a power semiconductor device envisages the steps of: providing a body of semiconductor material having a top surface and having a first conductivity; forming columnar regions having a second type of conductivity within the body of semiconductor material, and surface extensions of the columnar regions above the top surface; and forming doped regions having the second type of conductivity, in the proximity of the top surface and in contact with the columnar regions. The doped regions are formed at least partially within the surface extensions of the columnar regions; the surface extensions and the doped regions have a non-planar surface pattern, in particular with a substantially V-shaped groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alfio Guarnera, Mario Giuseppe Saggio, Ferruccio Frisina
  • Patent number: 8853775
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having first and second main surfaces, control electrodes disposed in trenches on the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate and extending in a first direction parallel to the first main surface, and control interconnects disposed on the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The semiconductor substrate includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, second semiconductor layers of a second conductivity type on a surface of the first semiconductor layer on a first main surface side, third semiconductor layers of the first conductivity type disposed on surfaces of the second semiconductor layers on the first main surface side and extending in the second direction, and a fourth semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type on the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuneo Ogura, Kazutoshi Nakamura, Hideaki Ninomiya, Tomoko Matsudai, Yuichi Oshino
  • Patent number: 8841720
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate capable of detecting operating current of a MOSFET and diode current in a miniaturized MOSFET such as a trench-gate type MOSFET is provided. A semiconductor substrate includes a main current region and a current sensing region in which current smaller than main current flowing in the main current region flows. The main current region has a source electrode disposed on a main surface, the source electrode being in contact with a p-type semiconductor region (body) and an n+-type semiconductor region (source), and the current sensing region has a MOSFET current detecting electrode and a diode current detecting electrode on a main surface, the MOSFET current detecting electrode being in contact with the p-type semiconductor region (body) and the n+-type semiconductor region (source), the diode current detecting electrode being in contact with the p-type semiconductor region (body).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8841724
    Abstract: In an LDMOS transistor, a channel length is reduced to increase a saturation current without causing an off-state breakdown voltage optimized in terms of trade-off between an on-resistance and the off-state breakdown voltage. A short channel region is selectively formed between an element isolation film and a low-concentration body region in which a channel is formed such that the short channel region is located immediately below a gate oxide film. The short channel region has a conduction type opposite to that of the low-concentration body region and has a carrier concentration higher than that of the low-concentration body region. The body region is retreated by the presence of the short channel region toward a high-concentration source region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyakoshi, Shinichiro Wada, Yohei Yanagida, Takayuki Oshima, Keigo Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 8835934
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first conduction type semiconductor substrate, a first conduction type semiconductor deposition layer, a trench, second conduction type wells, a JFET region, a first conduction type first source region, a first source region, a trench-type source electrode, a gate insulator film, a gate electrode, and a drain electrode. The trench is formed substantially perpendicularly to the semiconductor deposition layer so that the semiconductor deposition layer exposes to a bottom of the trench. The second conduction type second source region are formed in the first conduction type first source region. The trench-type source electrode is in contact with the first source region, the second source region, and the first conduction type semiconductor deposition layer to configure a Schottky junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaishia Toshiba
    Inventor: Makoto Mizukami
  • Patent number: 8835935
    Abstract: A trench metal oxide semiconductor transistor device and a manufacturing method thereof are described. The trench metal oxide semiconductor transistor device includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, a drift region of the first conductivity type, a deep trench doped region of a second conductivity type, an epitaxial region of the second conductivity type, a trench gate, a gate insulating layer, a source region, a drain electrode and a source electrode. The drift region has at least one deep trench therein, and the deep trench doped region is disposed in the deep trench. The trench gate passes through the epitaxial region, and a distance between a bottom of the trench gate and a bottom of the deep trench doped region is 0.5˜3 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chien-Chung Hung, Young-Shying Chen, Cheng-Tyng Yen, Chwan-Ying Lee
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 8829641
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a method of forming a field effect transistor can include forming a well region in a semiconductor region of a first conductivity type where the well region is of a second conductivity type and has an upper surface and a lower surface. The method can include forming a gate trench extending into the semiconductor region to a depth below a depth of the lower surface of the well region, and forming a stripe trench extending through the well region and into the semiconductor region to a depth below the depth of the gate trench. The method can also include forming a contiguous source region of the first conductivity type in the well region where the source region being in contact with the gate trench and in contact with the stripe trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce D. Marchant
  • Patent number: 8829640
    Abstract: This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate and having an active cell area and an edge termination area the edge termination area wherein the edge termination area comprises a superjunction structure having doped semiconductor columns of alternating conductivity types with a charge imbalance between the doped semiconductor columns to generate a saddle junction electric field in the edge termination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Madhur Bobde, Lingpeng Guan, Anup Bhalla, Hamza Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 8829600
    Abstract: Provided is a power semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, in which a current flows in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a resistance control structure configured so that a resistance to the current becomes higher in a central portion of the semiconductor substrate than a peripheral portion of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Hatori
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8829613
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is formed with a stepped field plate over at least three sequential regions in which a total dielectric thickness under the stepped field plate is at least 10 percent thicker in each region compared to the preceding region. The total dielectric thickness in each region is uniform. The stepped field plate is formed over at least two dielectric layers, of which at least all but one dielectric layer is patterned so that at least a portion of a patterned dielectric layer is removed in one or more regions of the stepped field plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sameer Pendharkar, Naveen Tipirneni
  • Publication number: 20140246722
    Abstract: A power MOS field effect transistor (FET) has a plurality of transistor cells, each cell having a source region and a drain region to be contacted through a surface of a silicon wafer die. A first dielectric layer is disposed on the surface of the silicon wafer die and a plurality of grooves are formed in the first dielectric layer above the source regions and drain regions, respectively and filled with a conductive material. A second dielectric layer is disposed on a surface of the first dielectric layer and has openings to expose contact areas to said grooves. A metal layer is disposed on a surface of the second dielectric layer and filling the openings, wherein the metal layer is patterned and etched to form separate metal wires connecting each drain region and each source region of the plurality of transistor cells, respectively through the grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gregory Dix, Harold Kline, Dan Grimm, Roger Melcher, Jacob L. Williams
  • Patent number: 8823098
    Abstract: The invention discloses a manufacture method and structure of a power transistor, comprising a lower electrode, a substrate, a drift region, two first conductive regions, two second conductive regions, two gate units, an isolation structure and an upper electrode. The two second conductive region are between the two first conductive regions and the drift region; the two gate units are on the two second conductive regions; the isolation structure covers the two gate units; the upper electrode covers the isolation structure and connects to the two first conductive regions and the two second conductive regions electrically. When the substrate is of the first conductive type, the structure can be used as MOSFET. When the substrate is of the second conductive type, the structure can be used as IGBT. This structure has a small gate electrode area, which leads to less Qg, Qgd and Rdson and improves device performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Wuxi Versine Semiconductor Corp. Ltd.
    Inventors: Qin Huang, Yuming Bai
  • Patent number: 8823097
    Abstract: A transistor-type protection device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a well of a first-conductivity-type formed in the semiconductor substrate; a source region of a second-conductivity-type formed in the well; a gate electrode formed on the well via a gate insulating film at one side of the source region; plural drain regions of a second-conductivity-type formed apart from each other and respectively separated at a predetermined distance from a well part immediately below the gate electrode film; and a resistive connection part connecting between the plural drain regions with a predetermined electric resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Imoto, Toshio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8823051
    Abstract: A diode-connected lateral transistor on a substrate of a first conductivity type includes a vertical parasitic transistor through which a parasitic substrate leakage current flows. Means for shunting at least a portion of the flow of parasitic substrate leakage current away from the vertical parasitic transistor is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Cai, Micheal Harley-Stead, Jim G. Holt
  • Patent number: 8823095
    Abstract: It is the purpose of the invention to provide a MOS transistor (20) which guarantees a voltage as high as possible, has a required area as small as possible and which enables the integration into integrated smart power circuits. It results there from as an object of the invention to form the edge structure of the transistors such that it certainly fulfils the requirements on high breakthrough voltages, a good isolation to the surrounding region and requires a minimum of surface on the silicon disc anyway. This is achieved with an elongated MOS power transistor having drain (30) and source (28) for high rated voltages above 100V, wherein the transistor comprises an isolating trench (22) in the edge area for preventing an early electrical breakthrough below the rated voltage. The trench is lined with an isolating material (70, 72), wherein the isolating trench terminates the circuit component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: X-Fab Semiconductor Foundries AG
    Inventor: Ralf Lerner
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8816431
    Abstract: A MOSFET device has a funnel-shaped trench etched in a semiconductor substrate. The funnel-shaped trench has flared rim extending from a wider cross section trench mouth at the surface of the semiconductor substrate to a narrower cross section trench body portion which terminates in an epilayer portion of the semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is disposed in the trench on the flared rim. Source and gate regions of the device abut upper and lower portions of the flared rim, respectively. A drain region of the device, which abuts the narrower cross section trench body portion, is self-aligned with a lower edge of a gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Bowers
  • Patent number: 8809986
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of reducing a temperature-dependent variation of a current sense ratio and accurately detecting current. In the semiconductor device, at least one of an impurity concentration and a thickness of each semiconductor layer is adjusted such that a value calculated by a following equation is less than a predetermined value: [ ? i = 1 n ? ( R Mi × k Mi ) - ? i = 1 n ? ( R Si × k Si ) ] / ? i = 1 n ? ( R Mi × k Mi ) where a temperature-dependent resistance changing rate of an i-th semiconductor layer (i=1 to n) of the main element domain is RMi; a resistance ratio of the i-th semiconductor layer of the main element domain relative to the entire main element domain is kMi; a temperature-dependent resistance changing rate of the i-th semiconductor layer of the sense element domain is RSi; and a resistance ratio of the i-th semiconductor layer of the sense element domain to the entire sense element domain is kSi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Takaya, Kimimori Hamada, Yuji Nishibe
  • 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: 8803190
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention can include a semiconductor device that includes an output stage IGBT and a Zener diode on the same semiconductor substrate. The IGBT can include a first p well layer, an n emitter region on the surface region of the first p well layer, a gate electrode deposited on a gate insulating film, and an emitter electrode on the emitter region. The Zener diode can include a p+ layer formed in the surface region of a second p well layer in the place different from the first p well layer and has a higher concentration than the second p well layer, an anode electrode in ohmic contact with the surface of the p+ layer, an n? layer having a lower concentration than the second p well layer, and a cathode electrode in Schottky contact with the surface of the n? layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Shigemi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 8803205
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate terminal, at least one control terminal and first and second load terminals and at least one device cell. The at least one device cell includes a MOSFET device having a load path and a control terminal, the control terminal coupled to the gate terminal and a JFET device having a load path and a control terminal, the load path connected in series with the load path of the MOSFET device between the load terminals. The at least one device cell further includes a first coupling transistor having a load path and a control terminal, the load path coupled between the control terminal of the JFET device and one of the source terminal and the gate terminal, and the control terminal coupled to the at least one control terminal of the transistor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Armin Willmeroth, Franz Hirler, Hans Weber, Michael Treu
  • Patent number: 8796787
    Abstract: In a semiconductor power device such as a power MOSFET having a super-junction structure in each of an active cell region and a chip peripheral region, an outer end of a surface region of a second conductivity type coupled to a main junction of the second conductivity type in a surface of a drift region of a first conductivity type and having a concentration lower than that of the main junction is located in a middle region between an outer end of the main junction and an outer end of the super-junction structure in the chip peripheral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tamaki, Yoshito Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 8796100
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing an N-type LDMOS device. The method comprises forming a gate above the semiconductor substrate; forming a body, comprising forming a Pwell apart from the gate and forming a Pbase partly in the Pwell, wherein the Pbase is wider and shallower than the Pwell; and forming an N-type source and a drain contact region. Wherein the body curvature of the LDMOS device is controlled by adjusting the layout width of the Pwell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeesung Jung
  • Patent number: 8796788
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device and method for manufacturing the integrated circuit device is disclosed. The disclosed method provides a processing for forming improved source/drain features in the semiconductor device. Semiconductor devices with the improved source/drain features may prevent or reduce defects and achieve high strain effect resulting from epi layers. In an embodiment, the source/drain features comprises a second portion surrounding a first portion, and a third portion between the second portion and the semiconductor substrate, wherein the second portion has a composition different from the first and third portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsz-Mei Kwok, Hsueh-Chang Sung, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsien-Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 8791511
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed which has a high voltage isolation structure that is a RESURF structure, wherein it is possible to reduce a displacement current generated by dV/dt noise, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. It is possible to increase a lateral resistance without changing the total amount of electric charges in the uppermost surface p-type diffusion layer by using an uppermost surface p-type diffusion layer configuring a double-RESURF structure being formed so that high concentration regions with a deep diffusion depth and low concentration regions with a shallow diffusion depth are alternately arranged adjacent to each other. As a result, it is possible to reduce a displacement current generated by dV/dt noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Jonishi
  • Patent number: 8790971
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a super junction transistor is provided. A drain substrate is provided. An epitaxial layer is formed on the drain substrate. A plurality of trenches is formed in the epitaxial layer. A buffer layer is formed and is in direct contact with the interior surface of the trenches. A dopant source layer is filled into the trenches. An etching process is performed to form a plurality of recessed structures above the respective trenches. A gate oxide layer is formed on the surface of each recessed trench and the dopants inside the dopant source layer are diffused into the epitaxial layer through the buffer layer to thereby form at least a body diffusion layer of the first conductivity type. A gate conductor is filled into the recessed structures to form a plurality of gate structure units. A doped source region having the first conductivity type is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Anpec Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yung-Fa Lin, Shou-Yi Hsu, Meng-Wei Wu, Chia-Hao Chang
  • Patent number: 8791525
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device that includes a stack of a thin metal layer and a thick metal layer over the active region thereof, and a method for the fabrication thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: International Rectifier Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Montgomery, Hugo Burke, Philip Parsonage, Susan Johns, David Paul Jones
  • Patent number: 8791577
    Abstract: An approach for providing bit cells with triple patterned metal layer structures is disclosed. Embodiments include: providing, via a first patterning process of a metal layer, a first structure that is a first one of a word line structure, a ground line structure, a power line structure, and a bit line structure; providing, via a second patterning process of the metal layer, a second structure that is different from the first structure and that is a second one of the word line structure, the ground line structure, the power line structure, and the bit line structure; and providing, via a third patterning process of the metal layer, a third structure that is different from the first structure and the second structure, and that is a third one of the word line structure, the ground line structure line, the power line structure, and the bit line structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Globalfoundries Inc.
    Inventors: Juhan Kim, Jongwook Kye
  • Patent number: 8786045
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a termination structure can include a plurality of pillars of a first conductivity type formed inside a termination region of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type where the plurality of pillars define a plurality of concentric rings surrounding an active area of a semiconductor device. The termination structure can include a conductive field plate where the plurality of pillars includes a first pillar coupled to the conductive field plate. The termination structure can include a dielectric layer where the plurality of pillars include a second pillar insulated by the dielectric layer from a portion of the conductive field plate disposed directly above the second pillar included in the plurality of pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok Challa, Jaegil Lee, Jinyoung Jung, Hocheol Jang
  • Patent number: 8779527
    Abstract: A method and circuit in which the drive strength of a FinFET transistor can be selectively modified, and in particular can be selectively reduced, by omitting the LDD extension formation in the source and/or in the drain of the FinFET. One application of this approach is to enable differentiation of the drive strengths of transistors in an integrated circuit by applying the technique to some, but not all, of the transistors in the integrated circuit. In particular in a SRAM cell formed from FinFET transistors the application of the technique to the pass-gate transistors, which leads to a reduction of the drive strength of the pass-gate transistors relative to the drive strength of the pull-up and pull-down transistors, results in improved SRAM cell performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Merelle, Gerben Doornbos, Robert James Pascoe Lander
  • Patent number: 8779439
    Abstract: The present invention provides a silicon carbide Schottky-barrier diode device and a method for manufacturing the same. The silicon carbide Schottky bather diode device includes a primary n? epitaxial layer, an n+ epitaxial region, and a Schottky metal layer. The primary n? epitaxial layer is deposited on an n+ substrate joined with an ohmic metal layer at an undersurface thereof. The n+ epitaxial region is formed by implanting n+ ions into a central region of the primary n? epitaxial layer. The Schottky metal layer is deposited on the n+ epitaxial layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Kyoung Kook Hong, Jong Seok Lee
  • Publication number: 20140191281
    Abstract: An n well region and an n?region surrounding the n well region are provided in the surface layer of a p?silicon substrate. The n?region includes breakdown voltage regions in which high voltage MOSFETs are disposed. The n well region includes a logic circuit region in which a logic circuit is disposed. A p? opening portion is provided between a drain region of each high voltage MOSFET and the logic circuit region. An n buffer region used as load resistances is provided between a second pick-up region and the drain region. The p?opening portion is provided between the n buffer region and logic circuit region. By so doing, it is possible to realize a reduction in the area of chips, and provide a high voltage semiconductor device having a level shift circuit with a high switching response speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventor: Masaharu YAMAJI
  • Patent number: 8772111
    Abstract: A trench gate semiconductor device is disclosed which has a trench gate structure including an insulator in the upper portion of a first trench, the insulator being on a gate electrode; a source region having a lower end surface positioned lower than the upper surface of the gate electrode; a second trench in the surface portion of a semiconductor substrate between the first trenches, the second trench having a slanted inner surface providing the second trench with the widest trench width at its opening and a bottom plane positioned lower than the lower end surface of the source region, the slanted inner surface being in contact with the source region; and a p-type body-contact region in contact with the slanted inner surface of the second trench. The trench gate semiconductor device and its manufacturing method facilitate increasing the channel density and lowering the body resistance of the parasitic BJT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ikura
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8772868
    Abstract: A power device includes a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of alternately arranged pillars of first and second conductivity types. At least one of the plurality of pillars of second conductivity type includes a first trench epitaxial layer of the second conductivity type disposed on a trench sidewall of the second trench and a trench bottom surface of the second trench, a second trench epitaxial layer of the second conductivity type disposed on the first trench epitaxial layer of the second conductivity type, and an insulating material layer disposed on the second trench epitaxial layer of the second conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Yedinak, Mark L. Rinehimer, Praveen Muraleedharan Shenoy, Hamza Yilmaz, James Pan, Rodney S. Ridley, Sr.