IP Library Granted Patent US 7,732,861
Granted Patent B2
US 7,732,861 · App. 12/461,713 · Granted Jun 8, 2010

Trench MOS type silicon carbide semiconductor device

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Patent No.
US 7,732,861
App. No.
12/461,713
Granted
Jun 8, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A trench MOS type SiC semiconductor device includes a first conductivity semiconductor substrate, a first conductivity drift layer on the substrate, a second conductivity base layer on the drift layer, a first conductivity source layer on the base layer, a stripe shaped trench reaching from the surface of the source layer to the drift layer and having a gate electrode via a gate oxide film, a second conductivity layer on the bottom of the trench, and a second conductivity type region thereon on across-the-width side walls of at least one end of the trench, electrically coupling the second conductivity layer with the base layer. The device allows a low on-resistance without newly forming an electrode connected to the second conductivity layer even in the case of a device in which the second conductivity layer has to be grounded.

Claims (8)

1. A trench MOS type silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor device comprising:

a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate;

a first conductivity type drift layer formed on the first conductivity type semiconductor substrate;

a second conductivity type base layer formed on the first conductivity type drift layer;

a first conductivity type source layer formed on the second conductivity type base layer, a stripe shaped trench reaching from the surface of the first conductivity type source layer to the first conductivity type drift layer;

a second conductivity type layer formed on the bottom of the stripe shaped trench;

a second conductivity type region formed on the second conductivity type layer and on across-the-width side walls of at least a first end of the stripe shaped trench, the second conductivity type region electrically coupling the second conductivity type layer with the second conductivity type base layer; and

a gate oxide film formed in said trench with a gate electrode connected thereto.

Assignments (3)
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 26, 2011
From: FUJI ELECTRIC SYSTEMS CO., LTD. (FES); FUJI TECHNOSURVEY CO., LTD. (MERGER BY ABSORPTION)
To: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026970/0872 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2010
From: FUJI ELECTRIC DEVICE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
To: FUJI ELECTRIC SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 024252/0451 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2009
From: TSUJI, TAKASHI
To: FUJI ELECTRIC HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 023160/0216 →