Abstract:
A semiconductor device which solves the following problem of a super junction structure: due to a relatively high concentration in the body cell region (active region), in peripheral areas (peripheral regions or junction end regions), it is difficult to achieve a breakdown voltage equivalent to or higher than in the cell region through a conventional junction edge terminal structure or resurf structure. The semiconductor device includes a power MOSFET having a super junction structure formed in the cell region by a trench fill technique. Also, super junction structures having orientations parallel to the sides of the cell region are provided in a drift region around the cell region.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor power device such as a power MOSFET having a super-junction structure in each of an active cell region and a chip peripheral region, an outer end of a surface region of a second conductivity type coupled to a main junction of the second conductivity type in a surface of a drift region of a first conductivity type and having a concentration lower than that of the main junction is located in a middle region between an outer end of the main junction and an outer end of the super-junction structure in the chip peripheral region.
Abstract:
A problem associated with n-channel power MOSFETs and the like that the following is caused even by relatively slight fluctuation in various process parameters is solved: source-drain breakdown voltage is reduced by breakdown at an end of a p-type body region in proximity to a portion in the vicinity of an annular intermediate region between an active cell region and a chip peripheral portion, arising from electric field concentration in that area. To solve this problem, the following measure is taken in a power semiconductor device having a superjunction structure in the respective drift regions of a first conductivity type of an active cell region, a chip peripheral region, and an intermediate region located therebetween: the width of at least one of column regions of a second conductivity type comprising the superjunction structure in the intermediate region is made larger than the width of the other regions.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor power device such as a power MOSFET having a super-junction structure in each of an active cell region and a chip peripheral region, an outer end of a surface region of a second conductivity type coupled to a main junction of the second conductivity type in a surface of a drift region of a first conductivity type and having a concentration lower than that of the main junction is located in a middle region between an outer end of the main junction and an outer end of the super-junction structure in the chip peripheral region.
Abstract:
A problem associated with n-channel power MOSFETs and the like that the following is caused even by relatively slight fluctuation in various process parameters is solved: source-drain breakdown voltage is reduced by breakdown at an end of a p-type body region in proximity to a portion in the vicinity of an annular intermediate region between an active cell region and a chip peripheral portion, arising from electric field concentration in that area. To solve this problem, the following measure is taken in a power semiconductor device having a superjunction structure in the respective drift regions of a first conductivity type of an active cell region, a chip peripheral region, and an intermediate region located therebetween: the width of at least one of column regions of a second conductivity type comprising the superjunction structure in the intermediate region is made larger than the width of the other regions.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device which solves the following problem of a super junction structure: due to a relatively high concentration in the body cell region (active region), in peripheral areas (peripheral regions or junction end regions), it is difficult to achieve a breakdown voltage equivalent to or higher than in the cell region through a conventional junction edge terminal structure or resurf structure. The semiconductor device includes a power MOSFET having a super junction structure formed in the cell region by a trench fill technique. Also, super junction structures having orientations parallel to the sides of the cell region are provided in a drift region around the cell region.
Abstract:
Vertical power MOSFETs having a super junction are devices capable of having a lower on resistance than other vertical power MOSFETs. Although they have the advantage of high-speed switching due to rapid depletion of an N type drift region at the time of turn off in switching operation, they are likely to cause ringing. A vertical power MOSFET having a super junction structure provided by the present invention has, in the surface region of a first conductivity type drift region under a gate electrode, an undergate heavily doped N type region having a depth shallower than that of a second conductivity type body region and having a concentration higher than that of the first conductivity type drift region.
Abstract:
When forming a super junction by the embedded epitaxial method, adjusting a taper angle of dry etching to form an inclined column is generally performed in trench forming etching, in order to prevent a reduction in breakdown voltage due to fluctuations in concentration in an embedded epitaxial layer. However, according to the examination by the present inventors, it has been made clear that such a method makes design more and more difficult in response to the higher breakdown voltage. In the present invention, the concentration in an intermediate substrate epitaxy column area in each substrate epitaxy column area configuring a super junction is made more than that in other areas within the substrate epitaxy column area, in a vertical power MOSFET having the super junction by the embedded epitaxial method.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor power device such as a power MOSFET having a super-junction structure in each of an active cell region and a chip peripheral region, an outer end of a surface region of a second conductivity type coupled to a main junction of the second conductivity type in a surface of a drift region of a first conductivity type and having a concentration lower than that of the main junction is located in a middle region between an outer end of the main junction and an outer end of the super-junction structure in the chip peripheral region.
Abstract:
A problem associated with n-channel power MOSFETs and the like that the following is caused even by relatively slight fluctuation in various process parameters is solved: source-drain breakdown voltage is reduced by breakdown at an end of a p-type body region in proximity to a portion in the vicinity of an annular intermediate region between an active cell region and a chip peripheral portion, arising from electric field concentration in that area. To solve this problem, the following measure is taken in a power semiconductor device having a superjunction structure in the respective drift regions of a first conductivity type of an active cell region, a chip peripheral region, and an intermediate region located therebetween: the width of at least one of column regions of a second conductivity type comprising the superjunction structure in the intermediate region is made larger than the width of the other regions.