IP Library Granted Patent US 8,125,024
Granted Patent B2
US 8,125,024 · App. 12/041,017 · Granted Feb 28, 2012

Trench MOSgated device with deep trench between gate trenches

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Patent No.
US 8,125,024
App. No.
12/041,017
Granted
Feb 28, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A trench gated MOSFET especially for operation in high radiation environments has a deep auxiliary trench located between the gate trenches. A boron implant is formed in the walls of the deep trench (in an N channel device); a thick oxide is formed in the bottom of the trench, and boron doped polysilicon which is connected to the source electrode fills the trench. The structure has reduced capacitance and improved resistance to single event rupture and single event breakdown and improved resistance to parasitic bipolar action.

Claims (10)

1. A trench MOSFET structure comprising a plurality of parallel spaced gate trenches extending through a source region of a first conductivity type, an underlying channel region of the opposite conductivity type and into a drift region of the first conductivity type; and a deep trench having a depth deeper than said gate trenches and disposed between each pair of said gate trenches; each of said deep trenches including sidewalls that receive an implant of said opposite conductivity type and a bottom surface that does not receive said implant, said deep trenches being filled with a conductive polysilicon of said opposite conductivity type; and a top contact connected to said source region and said conductive polysilicon in said deep trenches.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein said deep trenches have an insulation mass beneath said conductive polysilicon therein.

3. The device of claim 2 , wherein said insulation mass comprises an oxide.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein said conductive polysilicon is, boron doped.

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein said first conductivity type is N type, and said opposite conductivity type is P type.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein said drift region is grown epitaxially over a body.

7. A trench device structure comprising a plurality of parallel spaced gate trenches extending through a source region of a first conductivity type, an underlying channel region of the opposite conductivity type and into a drift region of the first conductivity type, said drift region grown epitaxially over a body; and a deep trench having a depth deeper than said gate trenches and disposed between each pair of said gate tranches; each of said deep trenches including sidewalls that receive an implant of said opposite conductivity type and a bottom surface that does not receive said implant, said deep trenches being filled with a conductive polysilicon of said opposite conductivity type; and a top contact connected to said source region and said conductive polysilicon in said deep trenches.

8. The device of claim 7 , wherein said body comprises an N type body to configure the device as a MOSFET.

9. The device of claim 7 , wherein said body comprises a buffer layer and a P type region to configure the device as an IGBT.

10. The device of claim 7 , wherein said deep trenches have an insulation mass beneath said conductive polysilicon therein.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 23, 2018
From: INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER CORPORATION
To: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AMERICAS CORP.
Reel/Frame 046612/0968 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2008
From: BODEN, MILTON J.
To: INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 020788/0720 →