IP Library Granted Patent US 8,735,294
Granted Patent B2
US 8,735,294 · App. 13/660,399 · Granted May 27, 2014

Method for fabricating a vertical LDMOS device

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Patent No.
US 8,735,294
App. No.
13/660,399
Granted
May 27, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vertically arranged laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) device includes a trench extending into a semiconductor body toward a semiconductor substrate. The trench includes sidewalls, a bottom portion connecting the sidewalls, a dielectric material lining the trench and a diffusion agent layer lining the dielectric material. A lightly doped drain region adjoins the trench and extends laterally around the sidewalls from the diffusion agent layer into the semiconductor body. In one implementation, a method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device includes forming a trench extending into a semiconductor body toward a semiconductor substrate, the trench including sidewalls, a bottom portion connecting the sidewalls, a dielectric material lining the trench and a diffusion agent layer lining the dielectric material. The method further includes diffusing impurities from the diffusion agent layer through the dielectric material to form a lightly doped drain region extending laterally around the sidewalls into the semiconductor body.

Claims (25)

1. A method for fabricating a vertically arranged laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) device comprising:

forming a trench within a semiconductor body, said trench including sidewalls, a bottom portion, a dielectric material lining said trench and a diffusion agent layer lining said dielectric material;

diffusing impurities from said diffusion agent layer through said dielectric material to form a lightly doped drain region extending laterally from said sidewalls of said trench into said semiconductor body.

2. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 1 , further comprising filling said trench with an insulative material.

3. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 1 , wherein said semiconductor body is of a first conductivity type, and said lightly doped drain region is of a second conductivity type.

4. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 1 , further comprising forming a gate electrode in said trench over said diffusion agent layer.

5. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 1 , wherein said trench is extended into a semiconductor substrate underlying said semiconductor body.

6. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 5 , wherein said bottom portion of said trench is disposed above said semiconductor substrate.

7. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 5 , wherein said lightly doped drain region extends to said semiconductor substrate.

8. A method for fabricating a vertically arranged laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) device comprising:

forming first and second trenches extending into a semiconductor body and a semiconductor substrate underlying said semiconductor body;

forming a first lightly doped drain region adjoining said first trench and a second lightly doped drain region adjoining said second trench;

wherein said first and second lightly doped drain regions are spaced apart by said semiconductor body.

9. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 8 , wherein said first and second lightly doped drain regions are spaced laterally apart by said semiconductor body.

10. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 8 , wherein said first and second trenches each includes sidewalls, a bottom portion, a dielectric material lining each trench and a diffusion agent layer lining said dielectric material.

11. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 10 , wherein said first and second lightly doped drain regions extend laterally from said sidewalls of said trenches into said semiconductor body.

12. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 8 , wherein said semiconductor body is of a first conductivity type, and said first and second lightly doped drain regions and said semiconductor substrate are of a second conductivity type.

13. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 10 , wherein said bottom portion of each of said first and second trenches is disposed above said semiconductor substrate.

14. A method for fabricating a vertically arranged laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) device comprising:

forming a trench within a semiconductor body, said trench including sidewalls, a bottom portion, a diffusion agent layer lining said sidewalls;

diffusing impurities from said diffusion agent layer through said sidewalls to form a lightly doped drain region extending from said sidewalls into said semiconductor body.

15. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 14 , further comprising filling said trench with an insulative material.

16. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 14 , wherein said semiconductor body is of a first conductivity type, and said lightly doped drain region is of a second conductivity type.

17. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 14 , further comprising forming a gate electrode in said trench.

18. The method for fabricating a vertically arranged LDMOS device of claim 14 , wherein said lightly doped drain region extends into a semiconductor substrate underlying said semiconductor body.

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 Oct 25, 2012
From: BOL, IGOR
To: INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 029193/0056 →