Abstract:
A MOSgated device with a minimum overlap between the gate and drain electrodes is comprised of an Nnull substrate which receives an epitaxial layer of silicon. The body of the epitaxial layer has an N- lower layer for an accumulation device or a Pnull drift lower layer. In each case the top of the epitixial layer is Nnull. Both can be operated in an a-c mode. A trench gate consists of a trench through the epitaxial layer which has a thin gate oxide layer on its walls and bottom and a conductive polysilicon gate body filling the trench. The thin oxide on the bottom of the trench may be thicker than the oxide on the walls to reduce gate capacitance. A thick isolation oxide which is about 10 times as thick as the gate oxide overlies the top of the polysilicon. A planar drain electrode overlies the Nnull top layer and the laterally spaced isolation oxide; and a planar source electrode contacts the bottom of the substrate.
Abstract:
A trench type power MOSFET has a thin vertical gate oxide along its side walls and a thickened oxide with a rounded bottom at the bottom of the trench to provide a low RDSON and increased VDSMAX and VGSMAX and a reduced Miller capacitance. The walls of the trench are first lined with nitride to permit the growth of the thick bottom oxide to, for example 1000 null to 1400 null and the nitride is subsequently removed and a thin oxide, for example 320 null is regrown on the side walls. In another embodiment, the trench bottom in amorphized and the trench walls are left as single crystal silicon so that oxide can be grown much faster and thicker on the trench bottom than on the trench walls during an oxide growth step. A reduced channel length of about 0.7 microns is used. The source diffusion is made deeper than the implant damage depth so that the full 0.7 micron channel is along undamaged silicon. A very lightly doped diffusion of 1000 null to 2000 null in depth could also be formed around the bottom of the trench and is depleted at all times by the inherent junction voltage to further reduce Miller capacitance and switching loss.
Abstract:
A trench type power MOSgated device has a plurality of spaced trenches lined with oxide and filled with conductive polysilicon. The tops of the polysilicon fillers are below the top silicon surface and are capped with a deposited oxide the top of which is flush with the top of the silicon. Source regions of short lateral extent extend into the trench walls to a depth below the top of the polysilicon. A trench termination is formed having an insulation oxide liner covered by a polysilicon layer, covered in turn by a deposited oxide.
Abstract:
An SO-8 type package contains a control MOSFET die mounted on one lead frame section and a synchronous MOSFET and Schottky diode die is mounted on a second lead frame pad section. The die are interconnected through the lead frame pads and wire bonds to define a buck converter circuit and the die and lead frame pads are overmolded with a common insulation housing.