Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in a semiconductor body at a first surface of the semiconductor body, forming a polysilicon material in the trench, introducing dopants into the polysilicon material by a high dose and low energy process, and performing a thermal treatment configured to drive-in the dopants into the polysilicon material.
Abstract:
What is provided is a field effect component including a semiconductor body, which extends in an edge zone from a rear side as far as a top side and which includes a semiconductor mesa, which extends in a vertical direction, which is perpendicular to the rear side and/or the top side. The semiconductor body in a vertical cross section further includes a drift region, which extends at least in the edge region as far as the top side and which is arranged partly in the semiconductor mesa, and a body region, which is arranged at least partly in the semiconductor mesa and which forms a pn junction with the drift region. The pn junction extends between two sidewalls of the semiconductor mesa.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type having a continuous first area and a second area, introducing dopants of the first conductivity type in the continuous first area of the first semiconductor layer, forming a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, and forming trenches in the second semiconductor layer in the continuous first area.
Abstract:
A power semiconductor package includes a housing, a semiconductor chip embedded in the housing, and at least four terminals partially embedded in the housing and partially exposed to the outside of the housing. The semiconductor chip includes a first doping region in ohmic contact with a first metal layer, a second doping region in ohmic contact with a second metal layer, and a plurality of first trenches that includes gate electrodes and first field electrodes electrically insulated from the gate electrodes. A first terminal of the four terminals is electrically connected to the first metal layer, a second terminal of the four terminals is electrically connected to the second metal layer, a third terminal of the four terminals is electrically connected to the gate electrodes of the first trenches, and a fourth terminal of the four terminals is electrically connected to the first field electrodes of the first trenches.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having first and second opposing sides. Contact trenches extend, from the first and second sides, through a dielectric and into the semiconductor body. The contact trenches include conductive material electrically connected to the semiconductor body via sidewalls. The contact trenches include a first contact trench extending through a first dielectric and into the semiconductor body at the first side, the first contact trench including a first conductive material electrically connected to the semiconductor body adjoining the first contact trench, a second contact trench extending through a second dielectric and into the semiconductor body at the second side, the second contact trench including a second conductive material, a first contact pattern surrounded by the first dielectric at the first side, and a second contact pattern surrounded by the second dielectric at the second side.
Abstract:
A method includes forming a trench extending from a first surface of a semiconductor body into the semiconductor body such that a first trench section and at least one second trench section adjoin the first trench section, wherein the first trench section is wider than the second trench section. A first electrode is formed, in the at least one second trench section, and dielectrically insulated from semiconductor regions of the semiconductor body by a first dielectric layer. An inter-electrode dielectric layer is formed, in the at least one second trench section, on the first electrode. A second electrode is formed, in the at least one second trench section on the inter-electrode dielectric layer, and in the first trench section, such that the second electrode at least in the first trench section is dielectrically insulated from the semiconductor body by a second dielectric layer.
Abstract:
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes carrying out an anodic oxidation of a surface region of a semiconductor substrate to form an oxide layer at a surface of the semiconductor substrate by generating an attracting electrical field between the semiconductor substrate and an external electrode within an electrolyte to attract oxidizing ions of the electrolyte, causing an oxidation of the surface region of the semiconductor substrate. Further, the method includes reducing the number of remaining oxidizing ions within the oxide layer, while the semiconductor substrate is within an electrolyte.
Abstract:
A test method in accordance with one or more embodiments may include: providing a semiconductor device to be tested, the semiconductor device including at least one device cell, the at least one device cell having at least one trench, at least one first terminal electrode region and at least one second terminal electrode region, at least one gate electrode, and at least one additional electrode disposed at least partially in the at least one trench, wherein an electrical potential of the at least one additional electrode may be controlled separately from electrical potentials of the at least one first terminal electrode region, the at least one second terminal electrode region and the at least one gate electrode; and applying at least one electrical test potential to at least the at least one additional electrode to detect defects in the at least one device cell.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device in a semiconductor substrate includes a trench in a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The trench includes a first trench portion extending in a first direction and a second trench portion extending in the first direction. The first trench portion is connected with the second trench portion in a lateral direction. The first trench portion and the second trench portion are arranged one after the other along the first direction. The semiconductor device further includes a trench conductive structure having a conductive material disposed in the first trench portion, and a trench capacitor structure having a capacitor dielectric and a first capacitor electrode disposed in the second trench portion. The first capacitor electrode includes a layer lining a sidewall of the second trench portion.
Abstract:
A method of producing a controllable semiconductor component includes providing a semiconductor body with a top side and a bottom side, and forming a first trench protruding from the top side into the semiconductor body and a second trench protruding from the top side into the semiconductor body. The first trench has a first width and a first depth, and the second trench has a second width greater than the first width and a second depth greater than the first depth. The method further includes forming, in a common process, an oxide layer in the first trench and in the second trench such that the oxide layer fills the first trench and electrically insulates a surface of the second trench, and removing the oxide layer from the first trench completely or at least partly such that the semiconductor body comprises an exposed first surface area arranged in the first trench.