IP Library Granted Patent US 7,875,509
Granted Patent B2
US 7,875,509 · App. 12/103,921 · Granted Jan 25, 2011

Manufacturing method of semiconductor apparatus and semiconductor apparatus, power converter using the same

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Patent No.
US 7,875,509
App. No.
12/103,921
Granted
Jan 25, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a manufacturing method of a SOI type high withstand voltage semiconductor device formed on a support substrate via an insulation film, a small-sized semiconductor device having small dispersion of withstand voltage is manufactured by introducing impurities into the whole surface of a p-type or n-type SOI substrate having an impurity concentration of 2E14 cm −3 or less and serving as an active layer of the semiconductor device with an ion implantation method and thereby forming a drift layer.

Claims (33)

1. A manufacturing method of semiconductor device, the semiconductor device comprising:

a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type formed as an SOI substrate serving as an active layer;

a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type formed in a first main surface of the first semiconductor layer;

a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed in a surface of the second semiconductor layer;

a fourth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed in the first main surface of the first semiconductor layer at a distance from the second semiconductor layer;

a fifth semiconductor layer of the first or second conductivity type formed in a surface of the fourth semiconductor layer, wherein the fifth semiconductor layer has a higher impurity concentration than the fourth semiconductor layer;

a first electrode in contact with the second semiconductor layer and the third semiconductor layer;

a second electrode in contact with the fourth semiconductor layer;

a gate electrode formed so as to spread over the first, second and third semiconductor layers; and

the first semiconductor layer being formed so as to have a second main surface on a support substrate via an insulation film,

wherein impurities are introduced into the SOI substrate serving as the active layer of the semiconductor device by using an ion implantation method and thereby the first semiconductor layer is formed, and

wherein, in the SOI substrate serving as the active layer, a concentration of p-type or n-type impurities is 2E14 cm −3 or less.

2. The manufacturing method of semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein:

impurities are introduced from a Si face side of a Si layer serving as an active layer of the SOI substrate which is opposite from the first main surface and which is in contact with an insulator by using an ion implantation method to form the first semiconductor layer.

3. A semiconductor device, wherein a high withstand voltage lateral MOSFET, a lateral IGBT and a low withstand voltage complementary MOSFET are formed on same semiconductor device by using the manufacturing method of semiconductor device according to claim 1 .

4. A power converter, wherein a high withstand voltage lateral MOSFET, a lateral IGBT and a low withstand voltage complementary MOSFET are formed on same semiconductor device by using the manufacturing method of semiconductor device according to claim 1 .

5. A manufacturing method of semiconductor device and the semiconductor device comprising:

a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type formed as an SOI substrate serving as an active layer;

a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type formed in a first main surface of the first semiconductor layer;

a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed in a surface of the second semiconductor layer;

a fourth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed in the first main surface of the first semiconductor layer at a distance from the second semiconductor layer;

a fifth semiconductor layer of the first or second conductivity type formed in a surface of the fourth semiconductor layer, wherein the fifth semiconductor layer has a higher impurity concentration than the fourth semiconductor layer;

a first electrode in contact with the second semiconductor layer and the third semiconductor layer;

a second electrode in contact with the fourth semiconductor layer;

a gate electrode formed so as to spread over the first, second and third semiconductor layers; and

the first semiconductor layer being formed so as to have a second main surface on a support substrate via an insulation film,

wherein impurities of an n-type or a p-type are introduced into the SOI substrate serving as the active layer of the semiconductor device by using an ion implantation method and thereby the first semiconductor layer is formed, wherein:

impurities are introduced from the first main surface into a whole surface of the substrate by using an ion implantation method to form the first semiconductor layer, and

a projected range of implantation of the ion kind is at least 1 μm.

6. The manufacturing method of semiconductor device and the semiconductor device according to claim 5 , wherein:

a Si layer serving as an active layer of the SOI substrate has a thickness of at least 4 μm.

7. A semiconductor device, wherein a high withstand voltage lateral MOSFET, a lateral IGBT and a low withstand voltage complementary MOSFET are formed on same semiconductor device by using the manufacturing method of semiconductor device according to claim 5 .

8. A power converter, wherein a high withstand voltage lateral MOSFET, a lateral IGBT and a low withstand voltage complementary MOSFET are formed on same semiconductor device by using the manufacturing method of semiconductor device according to claim 5 .

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 8, 2023
From: ABLIC INC.
To: ABLIC INC.
Reel/Frame 064021/0575 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 12, 2018
From: SII SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
To: ABLIC INC.
Reel/Frame 045567/0927 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 30, 2016
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: SII SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 040465/0807 →