Infineon Technologies Austria Ag

Infineon Technologies Ag

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.

Cedric Ouvrard

David Laforet

Ralf Siemieniec

Li Juin Yip

Oliver Blank

Michael Hutzler

Cesar Augusto Braz

Adam Amali

Franz Hirler

Jens Peter Konrath

Gerhard Noebauer

Harsh Naik

Olivier Guillemant

Hans-Joachim Schulze

Roland Rupp

Wolfgang Werner

Romain Esteve

Andreas Voerckel

Daniel Kueck

Gerhard Nöbauer

Marcel Rene Mueller

Laszlo Juhasz

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having first and second opposing surfaces, an active area including active transistor cells, and an edge termination region laterally surrounding the active area. Each active transistor cell includes a mesa and a columnar trench having a field plate. The edge termination region includes inactive cells each including a columnar termination trench having a field plate, and a termination mesa including a drift region of a first conductivity type. The edge termination region includes a transition region laterally surrounding the active region and an outer termination region laterally surrounding the transition region. In the transition region, the termination mesa includes a body region of a second conductivity type arranged on the drift region. In the outer termination region, the drift region extends to the first surface. A buried doped region of the edge termination region is positioned in the transition and outer termination regions.

Semiconductor device

A vertical power semiconductor transistor device includes: a drain region of a first conductivity type; a body region of a second conductivity type; a drift region of the first conductivity type which separates the body region from the drain region; a source region of the first conductivity type separated from the drift region by the body region; a gate trench extending through the source and body regions and into the drift region, the gate trench including a gate electrode; and a field electrode in the gate trench or in a separate trench. The drift region has a generally linearly graded first doping profile which increases from the body region toward a bottom of the trench that includes the field electrode, and a graded second doping profile that increases at a greater rate than the first doping profile from an end of the first doping profile toward the drain region.

Charge compensation MOSFET with graded epi profile and methods of manufacturing thereof

A power semiconductor die has a semiconductor body coupled to a first load terminal and a second load terminal of the power semiconductor die and configured to conduct a load current between the load terminals. The die further comprises: a control trench structure for controlling the load current, the control trench structure extending into the semiconductor body along a vertical direction and arranged in accordance with a horizontal grid pattern having a plurality of grid openings; a plurality of power cells, each power cell being, in a horizontal cross-section, at least partially arranged in a respective one of the plurality of grid openings. At least one of the power cells comprises: a section of a drift zone of a first conductivity type, a section of a channel zone of a second conductivity type and a section of a source zone of the first conductivity type, wherein the channel zone section is electrically connected to the first load terminal and isolates the source zone section from the drift zone section; a control section with at least one control electrode section in the control trench structure; a columnar field plate trench extending into the semiconductor body along the vertical direction and including a field plate electrode electrically coupled to the first load terminal, the columnar field plate trench having a deep portion below the channel zone section and a proximal portion above the deep portion, the proximal portion vertically overlapping with the channel zone section, wherein a deep horizontal width of the deep portion amounts to at least 110% of a proximal horizontal width of the proximal portion.

Needle cell trench MOSFET

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a transistor cell region formed in the semiconductor substrate and an inner termination region formed in the semiconductor substrate and devoid of transistor cells. The transistor cell region includes a plurality of transistor cells and a gate structure that forms a grid separating transistor sections of the transistor cells from each other, each of the transistor sections including a needle-shaped first field plate structure extending from a first surface into the semiconductor substrate. The inner termination region surrounds the transistor cell region and includes needle-shaped second field plate structures extending from the first surface into the semiconductor substrate. The first field plate structures form a first portion of a regular pattern and the second field plate structures form a second portion of the same regular pattern.

Semiconductor device with needle-shaped field plate structures

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having drift and body regions. The drift region includes upper and lower drift regions. An active area includes a plurality of spicular trenches extending through the body region and into the drift region. Each spicular trench in the active area has a lower end which together define a lower end of the upper drift region extending towards a first side and a lower drift region extending from the lower end of the upper drift region towards a second side. The edge termination area includes spicular termination trenches extending at least into the upper drift region. A surface doping region arranged in the upper drift region in the edge termination area extends to the first side, is spaced apart from the lower end of the upper drift region, and has a net doping concentration lower than that of the upper drift region.

Semiconductor device having an edge termination area with trench electrodes at different electric potentials, and method for manufacturing thereof

Disclosed is a transistor device with at least one gate electrode, a gate runner connected to the at least one gate electrode and arranged on top of a semiconductor body, and a gate pad arranged on top of the semiconductor body and electrically connected to the gate runner. The gate runner includes a first metal line, a second metal line on top of the first metal line, a first gate runner section, and at least one second gate runner section. The at least one second gate runner section is arranged between the first gate runner section and the gate pad. A cross sectional area of the second metal line in the at least one second gate runner section is less than 50% of the cross sectional area of the second metal line in the first gate runner section.

Transistor device with gate resistor

Semiconductor device having a reduced surface doping in an edge termination area, and method for manufacturing thereof

A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first side. A plurality of active transistor cells is formed in an active area of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the plurality of active transistor cells includes a spicular trench which extends from the first side into the semiconductor substrate and has a field electrode. A gate electrode structure has a plurality of intersecting gate trenches running between the spicular trenches. The intersecting gate trenches form gate crossing regions of different shape when seen in a plan projection onto the first side of the power semiconductor device.

Power semiconductor device having different gate crossings, and method for manufacturing thereof

A vertical semiconductor field-effect transistor includes a semiconductor body having a front side, and a field electrode trench extending from the front side into the semiconductor body. The field electrode trench includes a field electrode and a field dielectric arranged between the field electrode and the semiconductor body. The vertical semiconductor field-effect transistor further includes a gate electrode trench arranged next to the field electrode trench, extending from the front side into the semiconductor body, and having two electrodes which are separated from each other and the semiconductor body. A front side metallization is arranged on the front side and in contact with the field electrode and at most one of the two electrodes.

Semiconductor transistor and method for forming the semiconductor transistor

Semiconductor device with needle-shaped field plate structures in a transistor cell region and in an inner termination region

A method of manufacturing a power metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor includes: forming a field electrode in a field plate trench in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate trench in the main surface, the gate trench extending in a first direction parallel to the main surface; and for a gate electrode in the gate trench, the gate electrode being made of a gate electrode material that comprises a metal. The field plate trench is formed to have an extension length in the first direction which is less than double of an extension length of the field plate trench in a second direction, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction.

Methods of manufacturing a power MOSFET

A semiconductor device includes a gate structure extending from a first surface into a semiconductor portion and having a metal gate electrode and a gate dielectric separating the metal gate electrode from the semiconductor portion. An interlayer dielectric separates a first load electrode from the semiconductor portion, and includes a screen oxide layer thinner than the gate dielectric. A body zone and a source zone are formed in the semiconductor portion and directly adjoin the gate structure.

Semiconductor device having a trench gate

In one implementation, a reduced gate charge field-effect transistor (FET) includes a drift region situated over a drain, a body situated over the drift region, and source diffusions formed in the body. The source diffusions are adjacent a gate trench extending through the body into the drift region and having a dielectric liner and a gate electrode situated therein. The dielectric liner includes an upper segment and a lower segment, the upper segment extending to at least a depth of the source diffusions and being significantly thicker than the lower segment.

Reduced gate charge field-effect transistor

A semiconductor device includes needle-shaped field plate structures extending from a first surface into transistor sections of a semiconductor portion in a transistor cell area. A grid structure separates the transistor sections from each other. The grid structure includes: stripe-shaped gate edge portions extending along one edge of the transistor sections, respectively; gate node portions wider than the gate edge portions and connecting two or more of the gate edge portions, respectively; and one or more connection sections of the semiconductor portion, wherein the one or more connection sections extend between neighboring transistor sections.

Semiconductor device with needle-shaped field plates and a gate structure with edge and node portions

A screen oxide layer is formed on a main surface of a semiconductor layer and a passivation layer is formed on the screen oxide layer. A gate trench is formed in a portion of the semiconductor layer exposed by a mask opening in a trench mask that comprises the passivation layer. A gate dielectric is formed at least along sidewalls of the gate trench. After removing the passivation layer, dopants are implanted through the screen oxide layer to form at least one of a source zone and a body zone in the semiconductor layer.

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