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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Tsuei, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vladislav Vashchenko, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/362 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/362 ;
Abstract
In a ESD protection clamp, breakdown and triggering voltage of the structure are reduced by introducing an internal zener diode structure that has a lower avalanche breakdown than the p-n junction of the ESD device. This introduces extra holes into the source junction region causing electrons to be injected into the junction and into the drain junction region to increase the carrier multiplication rate to increase the current density and lower the triggering voltage and breakdown voltage of devices such as NMOS devices or LVTSCRs.