Invention Grant
- Patent Title: IGBT with waved floating P-well electron injection
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Application No.: US14840322Application Date: 2015-08-31
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Publication No.: US09780168B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Kyoung Wook Seok
- Applicant: IXYS Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Milpitas
- Assignee: IXYS Corporation
- Current Assignee: IXYS Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Milpitas
- Agency: Imperius Patent Works
- Agent T. Lester Wallace; Darien K. Wallace
- Main IPC: H01L29/06
- IPC: H01L29/06 ; H01L29/08 ; H01L29/739 ; H01L29/10

Abstract:
An IGBT includes a floating P well, and a floating N+ well that extends down into the floating P well. A bottom surface of the floating P well has a waved contour so that it has thinner portions and thicker portions. When the device is on, electrons flow laterally from an N+ emitter, and through a first channel region. Some electrons pass downward, but others pass laterally through the floating N+ well to a local bipolar transistor located at a thinner portion of the floating P type well. The transistor injects electrons down into the N− drift layer. Other electrons pass farther through the floating N+ well, through the second channel region, and to an electron injector portion of the N− drift layer. The extra electron injection afforded by the floating well structures reduces VCE(SAT). The waved contour is made without adding any masking step to the IGBT manufacturing process.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170062563A1 IGBT With Waved Floating P-Well Electron Injection Public/Granted day:2017-03-02
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