Abstract:
A vertical wide bandgap power semiconductor device comprises from a source side (20) to a drain side (30) a cell (6) having a source electrode (2), a lowly n- doped drift layer (4), wherein the source electrode (2) forms a Schottky contact to the drift layer (4), a higher doped drain sided layer (5, 55) and a drain electrode (3) formed as an ohmic contact. A gate electrode (7) is arranged on the source side (20) and comprises an electrically conductive gate layer (70) and an insulating layer (72), which insulates the gate layer (70) from the source electrode (2) and the drift layer (4). The insulating layer (72), the source electrode (2) and the drift layer (4) attach each other at an edge (74). A thickness (76) of the insulating layer (72) at the edge (74) is chosen such that a maximum electric field at the maximum rated voltage is below 5 MeV/cm in the device.
Abstract:
The power semiconductor device according to the invention is a trench power field effect transistor, At all locations within a channel region a first local doping concentration is less than 1·10 17 cm -3 . In the base layer a second local doping concentration is at least 1·10 17 cm -3 at all locations within the base layer. In the invention a channel length L CH , fulfils the following inequation: L CH > 4 √ ε CH t CH t GI ε GI , wherein ε CH is a permittivity of the channel region, ε GI is a permittivity of the gate insulation layer, t CH is a thickness of the channel region in a direction perpendicular to an interface between the gate insulation layer and the channel region, and t GI is a thickness of the gate insulation layer in a direction perpendicular to the interface between the gate insulation layer and the channel region.
Abstract:
A wide bandgap semiconductor device is provided comprising an (n-) doped drift layer between a first main side (20) and a second main side (22). On the first main side (20), two n doped source regions (3, 3') which are laterally surrounded by p doped channel layers (4, 4') having a channel layer depth (40). A p+ doped well layer (5) having a well layer depth (50), which is at least as large as the channel layer depth (40) is arranged at the bottom of the source regions 3, 3'. A p++ doped plug (6) having a plug depth (60), which is as least as great as the well layer depth (50), and having a higher doping concentration than the well layer (5), is arranged between the two source regions (3, 3'). On the first side (12), a first main electrode (9) contacts as an ohmic contact at least the two source regions (3, 3') and the plug (6).