Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Naoyuki Kawabata

Nobuyuki Tomita

Takeharu Kuroiwa

Takanori Tanaka

Nobuo Fujiwara

Yoshihiko Toyoda

Zempei Kawazu

Kenichi Hamano

Yoichiro Mitani

Takaaki Tominaga

Masayuki Furuhashi

Akihito Ono

Junji Ochi

A superjunction layer includes first pillars of a first conductivity type and second pillars of a second conductivity type. First wells are provided respectively on the second pillars to reach the first pillars and are of the second conductivity type. First impurity regions are provided respectively on the first wells and are of the first conductivity type. Second wells are provided respectively on the first pillars, spaced from the second pillars in a section of an active region that is perpendicular to a semiconductor layer, and are of the second conductivity type. Second impurity regions are provided respectively on the second wells and are of the first conductivity type.

Semiconductor device including an active region that includes a switchable current path

A method for manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer includes: a first step of, by supplying a Si supply gas and a C supply gas, performing a first epitaxial growth on a SiC bulk substrate with a 4H&#x2014;SiC(0001) having an off-angle of less than 5&#xb0; as a main surface at a first temperature of 1480&#xb0; C. or higher and 1530&#xb0; C. or lower; a second step of stopping the supply of the Si supply gas and the C supply gas and increasing a temperature of the SiC bulk substrate from the first temperature to a second temperature; and a third step of, by supplying the Si supply gas and the C supply gas, performing a second epitaxial growth on the SiC bulk substrate having the temperature increased in the second step at the second temperature.

Method for manufacturing SiC epitaxial wafer

A silicon carbide semiconductor device capable of achieving a decrease in ON resistance and an increase in breakdown voltage and a method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device. A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate and a drift layer. The drift layer includes a breakdown voltage holding layer extending from a point where a doping concentration has a predetermined value to a surface of the drift layer. The doping concentration in the breakdown voltage holding layer continuously decreases from the point where the doping concentration has the predetermined value to a modulation point located further toward the surface of the drift layer than a midpoint in a film thickness direction of the breakdown voltage holding layer. The doping concentration in the breakdown voltage holding layer continuously increases from the modulation point to the surface of the drift layer.

Silicon carbide semiconductor device

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Naoyuki Kawabata