Renesas Electronics Corporation

Renesas Technology Corp.

Tsuyoshi Kachi

Yoshito Nakazawa

Hitoshi Matsuura

Yuji Yatsuda

Yoshinori Hoshino

Yoshinori Yoshida

Senichirou Nagase

Nobuyuki Shirai

Hiroki Arai

Hirokazu Kato

Koji Fujishima

Daisuke Arai

Koichiro Sakanishi

Ikuo Hara

Tsuyoshi Tabata

Yuta Ikegami

Keisuke Furuya

Yuji Takahashi

Yoshio Fukayama

Daisuke Ono

Tatsuhiko Miura

Fujio Shimizu

Katsuhiro Mitsui

Kazuya Sekiguchi

Tomokuni Chino

In a deep trench DTC reaching a predetermined depth from a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate SUB, a plurality of columnar conductors CCB including plugs PUG and field plates FP are formed. A p type impurity layer PIL is formed along the side wall surface of the deep trench DTC. Between the bottom of the plug PUG and the bottom of the p type impurity layer PIL, the field plate FP and the p type impurity layer PIL are positioned to face each other via an insulating film FIF interposed therebetween. Between the bottom of the p type impurity layer PIL and the bottom of the field plate FP, the field plate FP and an n-type drift layer NDL of the semiconductor substrate SUB are positioned to face each other via the insulating film FIF interposed therebetween.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device with an insulated-gate field-effect transistor and its manufacturing method. The cell region EFR defined in the first region of one main surface side of semiconductor substrate (SUB), an insulated gate-type field-effect transistor (MFET) is formed, the gate pad region GPR defined in the first region, snubber circuit SNC is formed snubber region SNR is defined. Within the first and second regions, first and second deep trenches spaced apart from each other are formed, and at least one width of the plurality of second deep trenches formed in the second region is smaller than that of the first deep trench formed in the first region.

Provided are a semiconductor device including a desired snubber part in accordance with use of the semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. A snubber region having a snubber part is defined in a gate pad region defined on a side close to a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate. A p-type diffusion layer and an n-type column layer contacted to each other are formed in the snubber region. The p-type diffusion layer and the n-type column layer are formed as a parasitic capacitance of the snubber part while the n-type column layer is electrically coupled to a drain. The p-type diffusion layer, which extends in a Y-axis direction, is a resistance of the snubber part and electrically coupled to a source.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device

Provided are a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method therefor that can prevent the breakage of an element and in which the control of impurity amounts is less susceptible to variations in manufacturing processes. A semiconductor substrate has a front surface and includes hole portions extending from the front surface to an inside of the substrate. N-type regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate. At wall surfaces of the hole portions, p-type regions are formed to configure p-n junction with the n-type regions. Each of the p-type regions includes a low-concentration region and a high-concentration region formed at the wall surface of each hole portion. A width of the high-concentration region along the wall surface of the hole portion becomes smaller from the front surface toward a deeper position.

Semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor

A semiconductor substrate is easily warped by the shrink of the insulating film formed within the deep trench according to the thermal processing in the super junction structure. In order to solve the above problem, in a semiconductor device, an element region and a terminal region are defined on one main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The terminal region is arranged to surround the element region. In the terminal region, a plurality of buried insulators are formed from the main surface of the semiconductor substrate in a way of penetrating an n-type diffusion layer and an n-type column layer and arriving at an n-type epitaxial layer. The buried insulator is formed within a deep trench. The plural buried insulators are arranged in island shapes mutually at a distance from each other.

Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof

A deep trench which reaches a predetermined depth from one principal surface is formed in an element region of a semiconductor substrate. A TEOS oxide film and a polycrystalline silicon film are formed so as to fill the deep trench. In formation of a MOSFET and in formation of a protective insulating film on/over a surface of an element region by thermal oxidation, a silicon thermal oxide film grows, the TEOS oxide film contracts and the polycrystalline silicon film expands when oxidized and turning into a silicon oxide film, and thereby an embedded insulator is formed in the deep trench.

To provide a semiconductor device equipped with a snubber portion having an improved withstand voltage and capable of reducing a surge voltage at turn-off of an insulated gate field effect transistor portion. The concentration of a first conductivity type impurity in a snubber semiconductor region is greater than that in a drift layer. The thickness of a snubber insulating film between the snubber semiconductor region and a snubber electrode is greater than that of a gate insulating film between a gate electrode and a body region.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same

An improvement is achieved in the performance of a semiconductor device. Over the main surface of a semiconductor substrate for the n-type base of an IGBT, an insulating layer is formed. In a trench of the insulating layer, an n-type semiconductor layer is formed over the semiconductor substrate and, on both sides of the semiconductor layer, gate electrodes are formed via gate insulating films. In an upper portion of the semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor region for a p-type base and an n-type semiconductor region for an n-type emitter are formed. Under the gate electrodes, parts of the insulating layer are present. The side surfaces of the gate electrodes opposite to the side surfaces thereof facing the semiconductor layer via the gate insulating films are adjacent to the insulating layer.

Semiconductor device including an IGBT as a power transistor and a method of manufacturing the same

Semiconductor device including an IGBT as a power transistor

Provided is a semiconductor device having improved performance. A semiconductor substrate is formed with unit LDMOSFET elements. The unit LDMOSFET elements have respective source regions electrically coupled to each other via a first source interconnect line and a second source interconnect line. The unit LDMOSFET elements have respective gate electrodes electrically coupled to each other via a first gate interconnect line and also electrically coupled to a second gate interconnect line in the same layer as that of the second source interconnect line via the first gate interconnect line. The unit LDMOSFET elements have respective drain regions electrically coupled to a back surface electrode via a conductive plug embedded in a trench of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the first source interconnect line and the first gate interconnect line has a thickness smaller than that of the second source interconnect line. Over the plug, the first gate interconnect line extends.

Semiconductor device

To realize a semiconductor device having a power MOSFET satisfying both a low conduction resistance and a high junction breakdown voltage by a simple and easy manufacturing method. Over an n-type substrate, a p-type epitaxial layer of a low concentration is formed, and, in an active part, a plurality of active regions is defined by a plurality of trenches that is formed in the epitaxial layer and extends in a first direction with first intervals in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. In the epitaxial layer between the adjacent trenches, an n-type diffusion region that functions as a drain offset layer is formed, and, in the epitaxial layer between a side wall of the trench and the n-type diffusion region, a p-type diffusion region connected with a channel region (the p-type diffusion region) is formed, to constitute a super junction structure. Further, by forming an n-type diffusion region in the epitaxial layer, having a prescribed width from a side wall of a trench lying in the end part of the active part toward an outer periphery part, to achieve the improvement of a drain breakdown voltage.

A general insulated gate power semiconductor active element with many gate electrodes arranged in parallel has a laminated structure including a barrier metal film and a thick aluminum electrode film formed over the gate electrodes via an interlayer insulating film. When the aluminum electrode film is embedded in between the gate electrodes in parallel, voids may be generated with the electrodes. Such voids allow the etchant to penetrate in wet etching, which may promote the etching up to a part of the electrode film in an active cell region which is to be left. Thus, an insulated gate power semiconductor device is provided to include gate electrodes protruding outward from the inside of the active cell region, and a gate electrode coupling portion for coupling the gate electrodes outside the active cell region. The gate electrode coupling portion is covered with a metal electrode covering the active cell region.

Power semiconductor device having gate electrode coupling portions for etchant control

Techniques capable of improving the yield of IGBTs capable of reducing steady loss, turn-off time, and turn-off loss are provided. Upon formation of openings in an interlayer insulting film formed on a main surface of a substrate, etching of a laminated insulating film of a PSG film and an SOG film and a silicon oxide film is once stopped at a silicon nitride film. Then, the silicon nitride film and the silicon oxide film are sequentially etched to form the openings. As a result, the openings are prevented from penetrating through an n-type source layer and a p-type emitter layer having a thickness of 20 to 100 nm and reaching the substrate.

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Tsuyoshi Kachi