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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2022
Applicant:
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Motoyoshi Kubouchi, Matsumoto, JP;
Assignee:
FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/00 (2005.12); H01L 27/082 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/0823 (2012.12);
Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including an active region and an outer peripheral region. The active region includes a transistor portion and a diode portion. The outer peripheral region includes a current sensing unit. A lifetime control region including a lifetime killer is provided from the diode portion to at least a part of the transistor portion. The current sensing unit includes a sense transistor non-irradiation region not provided with the lifetime control region and a sense transistor irradiation region provided with the lifetime control region.