Infineon Technologies Ag

Bernd Zippelius

Dethard Peters

Rudolf Elpelt

Caspar Leendertz

Ralf Siemieniec

Roland Rupp

Romain Esteve

Shiqin Niu

Paul Ellinghaus

Wolfgang Bergner

Thomas Aichinger

Jens Peter Konrath

Larissa Wehrhahn-Kilian

Thomas Basler

Michael Hell

Florian Grasse

Konrad Schraml

Daniel Kueck

Reinhold Schoerner

Anton Mauder

Andreas Peter Meiser

Juergen Steinbrenner

Jochen Hilsenbeck

Christian Hecht

Christian Stahlhut

Christian Strenger

Paul Salmen

Tobias Schmidutz

Vice Sodan

Karlheinz Feldrapp

A silicon carbide device includes: a transistor cell having a stripe-shaped trench gate structure extending from a first surface into a silicon carbide body, the gate structure having a gate length along a lateral first direction, a bottom surface and a first gate sidewall of the gate structure being connected via a first bottom edge of the gate structure; at least one source region of a first conductivity type in contact with the first gate sidewall; and a shielding region of a second conductivity type in contact with the first bottom edge of the gate structure across at least 20% of the gate length. No source regions of the first conductivity type are in contact with a second gate sidewall of the gate structure.

Silicon carbide device with a stripe-shaped trench gate structure

A method of producing a silicon carbide (SiC) device includes: forming a stripe-shaped trench gate structure that extends from a first surface of a SiC body into the SiC body, the gate structure having a gate length along a lateral first direction, a bottom surface and a first gate sidewall of the gate structure being connected via a first bottom edge of the gate structure; forming at least one source region of a first conductivity type; and forming a shielding region of a second conductivity type in contact with the first bottom edge of the gate structure across at least 20% of the gate length. Forming the shielding region includes: forming a deep shielding portion; and forming a top shielding portion between the first surface and the deep shielding portion, the top shielding portion being in contact with the first bottom edge.

Method of producing a silicon carbide device with a trench gate

A silicon carbide device includes a stripe-shaped trench gate structure extending from a first surface into a silicon carbide body. The gate structure has a gate length along a lateral first direction. A bottom surface and an active first gate sidewall of the gate structure are connected via a first bottom edge of the gate structure. The silicon carbide device further includes at least one source region of a first conductivity type. A shielding region of a second conductivity type is in contact with the first bottom edge of the gate structure across at least 20% of the gate length.

Silicon carbide device with trench gate

A semiconductor device includes gate trenches formed in a SiC substrate and extending lengthwise in parallel in a first direction. A trench interval which defines a space between adjacent gate trenches extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Source regions of a first conductivity type formed in the SiC substrate occupy a first part of the space between adjacent gate trenches. Body regions of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type formed in the SiC substrate and below the source regions occupy a second part of the space between adjacent gate trenches. Body contact regions of the second conductivity type formed in the SiC substrate occupy a third part of the space between adjacent gate trenches. Shielding regions of the second conductivity type formed deeper in the SiC substrate than the body regions adjoin a bottom of at least some of the gate trenches.

SiC device with channel regions extending along at least one of the (1-100) plane and the (-1100) plane and methods of manufacturing thereof

An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first main surface. The semiconductor body includes an active device area and an edge termination area at least partly surrounding the active device area. The semiconductor device further includes a contact electrode on the first main surface and electrically connected to the active device area. The semiconductor device further includes a passivation structure on the edge termination area and laterally extending into the active device area. The semiconductor device further includes an encapsulation structure on the passivation structure and covering a first edge of the passivation structure above the contact electrode.

Semiconductor device including a passivation structure and manufacturing method

A semiconductor component includes a SiC semiconductor body having an active region and an edge termination structure at least partly surrounding the active region. A drift zone of a first conductivity type is formed in the SiC semiconductor body. The edge termination structure includes: a first doped region of a second conductivity type between a first surface of the SiC semiconductor body and the drift zone, the first doped region at least partly surrounding the active region and being spaced apart from the first surface; a plurality of second doped regions of the second conductivity type between the first surface and the first doped region; and third doped regions of the first conductivity type separating adjacent second doped regions of the plurality of second doped regions from one another in a lateral direction.

Silicon carbide semiconductor component with edge termination structure

A semiconductor component includes a SiC semiconductor body. A drift zone of a first conductivity type and a semiconductor region are formed in the SiC semiconductor body. Barrier structures extending from the semiconductor region into the drift zone differ from the gate structures.

Silicon carbide semiconductor component

Embodiments of SiC devices and corresponding methods of manufacture are provided. In some embodiments, the SiC device has shielding regions at the bottom of some gate trenches and non-linear junctions formed with the SiC material at the bottom of other gate trenches. In other embodiments, the SiC device has the shielding regions at the bottom of the gate trenches and arranged in rows which run in a direction transverse to a lengthwise extension of the trenches. In still other embodiments, the SiC device has the shielding regions and the non-linear junctions, and wherein the shielding regions are arranged in rows which run in a direction transverse to a lengthwise extension of the trenches.

SiC power semiconductor device with integrated Schottky junction

SiC device and methods of manufacturing thereof

A semiconductor device includes a drift zone formed in a semiconductor portion. In a transition section of the semiconductor portion a vertical extension of the semiconductor portion decreases from a first vertical extension to a second vertical extension. A junction termination zone of a conductivity type complementary to a conductivity type of the drift zone is formed between a first surface of the semiconductor portion and the drift zone and includes a tapering portion in the transition section. In the tapering portion a vertical extension of the junction termination zone decreases from a maximum vertical extension to zero within a lateral width of at least twice the maximum vertical extension.

Semiconductor device with junction termination zone

By using at least one of a processor device and model transistor cells, a set of design parameters for at least one of a transistor cell and a drift structure of a wide band-gap semiconductor device is determined, wherein an on state failure-in-time rate and an off state failure-in-time rate of a gate dielectric of the transistor cell are within a same order of magnitude for a predefined on-state gate-to-source voltage, a predefined off-state gate-to-source voltage, and a predefined off-state drain-to-source voltage.

Semiconductor device with transistor cells and a drift structure and method of manufacturing

According to an embodiment of a semiconductor device, the device includes gate trenches formed in a SiC substrate and extending lengthwise in parallel in a first direction. Rows of source regions of a first conductivity type are formed in the SiC substrate and extend lengthwise in parallel in a second direction which is transverse to the first direction. Rows of body regions of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type are formed in the SiC substrate below the rows of source regions. Rows of body contact regions of the second conductivity type are formed in the SiC substrate. The rows of body contact regions extend lengthwise in parallel in the second direction. First shielding regions of the second conductivity type are formed deeper in the SiC substrate than the rows of body regions.

SiC trench transistor device and methods of manufacturing thereof

In termination regions of a silicon carbide substrate field zones are formed by ion implantation. By laterally modulating a distribution of dopants entering the silicon carbide substrate by the ion implantation, a horizontal net dopant distribution in the field zones is set to fall from a maximum net dopant concentration Nmax to Nmax/e within at least 200 nm, with e representing Euler's number. The field zones form first pn junctions with a drift layer.

Semiconductor device with termination structure including field zones and method of manufacturing

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body formed from a semiconductor material with a band-gap of at least 2.0 eV, the semiconductor body having a diode region and a source region. The semiconductor device further includes a trench gate structure having a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall, the first sidewall and the second sidewall extending along a common longitudinal direction. A doping concentration of a first doping type is higher in the diode region than in the source region. The trench gate structure projects from a first surface of the semiconductor body into the semiconductor body. A first portion of the second sidewall at the first surface is directly adjoined by the source region. A second portion of the second sidewall is in direct contact with the diode region. Additional semiconductor device embodiments are provided.

Semiconductor device with diode region and trench gate structure

A silicon carbide device includes an epitaxial silicon carbide layer having a first conductivity type and a buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region within the epitaxial silicon carbide layer and having a second conductivity type. The buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region is covered by a silicon carbide surface layer including a doping of ions of a transition metal or including an increased density of intrinsic point defects in comparison to a density of intrinsic point defects of the buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region.

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Bernd Zippelius