CA1056070A - Method of making an ic structure having both power and signal components - Google Patents

Method of making an ic structure having both power and signal components

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CA1056070A
CA1056070A CA245,432A CA245432A CA1056070A CA 1056070 A CA1056070 A CA 1056070A CA 245432 A CA245432 A CA 245432A CA 1056070 A CA1056070 A CA 1056070A
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Bruno F. Kurz
Armand P. Ferro
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/02Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers
    • H01L27/04Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body
    • H01L27/08Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body including only semiconductor components of a single kind
    • H01L27/082Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body including only semiconductor components of a single kind including bipolar components only
    • H01L27/0823Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body including only semiconductor components of a single kind including bipolar components only including vertical bipolar transistors only
    • H01L27/0825Combination of vertical direct transistors of the same conductivity type having different characteristics,(e.g. Darlington transistors)
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L29/00Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/02Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/06Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions
    • H01L29/08Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions with semiconductor regions connected to an electrode carrying current to be rectified, amplified or switched and such electrode being part of a semiconductor device which comprises three or more electrodes
    • H01L29/0821Collector regions of bipolar transistors

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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
An integrated circuit and method in which optimized power and signal components are incorporated into a mono-lithic structure. A suitable semiconductor substrate has an epitaxial layer of one conductivity type and having a relatively high resistivity formed thereon. Isolation means extend through the epitaxial layer and separate it into at least a signal transistor region and a power transistor region. A diffused pocket region is formed in the signal transistor region of the same conductivity type as the epitaxial layer but doped so as to provide a region of relatively low resistivity. A power transistor is formed in the relatively high resistivity power transistor region and a signal transistor is formed in the relatively low resistivity diffused pocket region.

Description

This invention pertains to an integrated circuit in-cluding both power and signal components in a monolithic structure, and a method for making the same As is known, fabrication of signal components and fabrication of power components in an integrated circuit environment entail differing considerations. That is, it is not po~sible to utilize a single semiconductor substrate having uniform characteristics and form~ with nothing further, optimized power and signal components therein. There have been previous approaches to fabrication of power and signal components on the same semiconductor chip. These have, however, involved additional proce~sing steps and are usually costly or difficult to control and constitute significant deparatures from standard indu~try production techniques One example of such a prior art arrangement is given in "Technology for Monolithic High-Power Integrated Circuits Using Polycrystalline Si for Collector and Isola-tion Wall8" by I. Kobayashi in IEEE TRANSACTIONS OU ELECTRO~
-DEVICES, Vol ED20, #4, April 1973, pp. 399-404.
It i~ an object of this invention to provide an in-tegrated circuit and method incorporating both power and signal components on the same semiconductor chip and utilizing simplified process ~tepq common to existing technology.
It is a specific object of this invention to provide such an integrated circuit and method for incorporating on the same s~miconductor chip high voltage breakdown power devices o~ low to medium gain and low voltage breakdown devices of higher gain.
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an epitaxial layer of relatively high resiætivity is formed on a semiconductor substrate. Isolation regions - 1 _ ~ . -- . .

1~ S ~ ~l RD_7087 extend through the epitaxial layer and separate it into at least one power transistor region and at least one signal transistor region. A diffused pocket region of the same conductivity type as the epitaxial layer but having a significantly lower resistivity is formed in the signal transistor region of the epitaxial layer. Thereafter, a power transistor is formed in the power transistor region and a signal transistor is formed in the diffused pocXet region FIGURES 1 through 7 are diagrammatic cross-sections illustrating sequential steps in the formation of an in-tegrated circuit in accordance with this invention.
Turning now to the drawings, in accord with the invention, a semiconductor substrate 11 is provided of a first con-ductivity typejj i.e., p-type in this example. Diffusions of an n-type conductivity type material can be made to form the n-type regions 12 and 13, which are utilized to form buried layers for the final structure, in a manner known to those skilled in this art. ~hereafter, and as specifically illustrated in FIGURE 2, an epitaxial layer 14 of n- is grown on top of the semiconductor substrate 11. During this epitaxial growth, the n-type region~ 12 and 13 diffuse partially into the epitaxial layer, as shown in FIGURE 2 Thereafter~ and as particularly shown in FIGURE 3, isolation regions 16, 17 and 18 are formed by p-type diffusions through the epitaxial layer 14 These isolation means define at least one power device region generally indicated by reference numeral 19 and at least one signal transistor region generally indicated by reference numeral 20 These power and signal tran~istor regions 19 and 20 are illustrated in cross section in Figure 3, but in planar extent may, of course, be circular, square~ rectangular, etc., as desired.
Throughout this discussion and in the drawings, the conventional photolithographic masking and etching tech-nique6 and steps are omitted both from the drawings and from the discussion of same. These techni~ues and steps are conventional and well known to those skilled in this art The epitaxial layer 14 i8 formed to have a relatively high resistivity~ i.e. greater than 5 ohm-cm and in accord-ance with a specific example has a resistivity of 20 ohm-cm Thi~ high resi~tivity epitaxial material in the power device region is left as is. However, in the signal tran-sistor region 20 an additional n-type diffusion is made to ;., "" ~, .
form a diffused pocket region 21, as shown in Figure 4.
Thi~ ~elective enhancement doping is carried out with an impurity concentration such that the resulting diffused pocket region 21 will have a relatively low resistivity, i e less than 1 ohm-cm, and in accordance with a ~pecific example 0.6 ohm_cm. As shown in Figure 4, the diffusion pocket region 21 extends only partially down through the epitaxial layer 14. Depending upon specific applications, if high currents are required for the signal transistor and a low ~aturation voltage is desired, then conversion of the entire thicknes~ of the epitaxial layer in the signal tran-sistor region 20 to the lower resi~t~vity might be more desirable As a practical matter these deep diffusions must be weighted against the required low surface concentrations and reasonable diffusion times.
In forming the diffused pocket region 21, the surface ~ -concentration and the diffusion time can be controlled~ as known to tho~e skilled in this art, to vary the degree to which the resistivity is lowered in the diffused pocket region 21. By way of a specific example, 20 ohm-cm ~7~
epitaxial material can be converted to an average resistivity of o.6 ohm_cm by an appropriate diffusion. Practical con-~traints are the desire to keep the remaining process steps identical, yet obtain both power and signal devices with desired optimized characteristics ~
The surface concentration of the diffused pocket ~-region 21 must be low enough to allow a conver~ion to a p-type ba~e region by a normal base diffusion. Figure 5 shows the next step in the process, which is formation of the base regions in both the power transistor region and in the signal transistor region, i.e , in diffused pocket region 21 ~here i~ thus formed the base region 22 for the power transistor and the base region 23 for the signal transistor. As ~hown in Figure 5, a more shallow base depth occurs in the diffused pocket region 21 due to the higher impurity concentration. Depending upon the parti-cular characteristics desired, if the more shallow ba~e depth which occurs from simultaneous formation of the ~ignal transistor ba~e with the power transistor base region i8 not atisfactory, two separate base diffusions can al-ternatively be performed This, of course, ha~ the dis_ advantage of reqyiring an extra processing step. With the resistivitie~ in accordance with the ~pecific example (20 ohm_cm for the epitaxial layer with the diffused pocket region having a resistivity of o.6 ohm-cm) a base width of from 4 to 5 microns results for the power transistor ~ase 22 and a base width of from 2 to 3 microns for the signal transistor base region 23 Thereafter, and as shown in Figure 6, emitter regions 2i and 25 are formed by an appropriate n-type impurity diffusion And, a~ ~hown in Figure 7, deep collector con-tacts or '`sinkers" 26 and 27 are formed extending down to l(~S~D ~

and making contact with the buried layers 12 and 13.
The resulting structure, a~ shown schematically in Figure 7, is a monolithic integrated circuit having a power transistor formed in relatively high resistivity epitaxtal material and having emitter, base, and collector terminals Ep, Bp and Cp; and a signal transistor formed in a relatively low resistivity diffused pocket region and having emitter base and collector terminals designated Es, and Bs and Cs In accordance with the invention a relatively thick epitaxial layer 14 is utilized and a relatively deep base diffusion 22 i8 provided to avoid electric field breaX-down due to curvature and achieve a power device having a high breakdown voltage, on the order of for example 500 volt~ By ~elective enhancement of the resistivity by additional doping forming the diffused pocket region 21 in the signal transistor region, however, a high gain signal transistor can be simultaneously fabricated with the power transistor, and in accordance with this specific example has a breakdown voltage on the order of 60 volts While this invention has been described with respect to a preferred embodiments, it should be obvious to those ~ -~killed in th$~ art that modifications may be made to the particularly described embodiment without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention

Claims (3)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclu-sive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A method of forming an integrated circuit including the steps of providing a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, growing an epitaxial layer of a second conductivity type and having a relatively high resistivity on the substrate, forming isolation regions of the first conductivity type extending through the epitaxial layer and separating it into at least a signal transistor region and at least a power transistor region, forming a diffused pocket region having a relatively low resistivity in the signal transistor region, forming a power transistor in the power transistor region and a signal transistor in the signal transistor region.
2. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the epitaxial region is grown to have a resistivity greater than 5 ohm-cm and the diffused pocket region is formed by diffusing impurities of the second conductivity type into the signal transistor region to form the diffused pocket region with a resulting relatively low resistivity less than 1 ohm-cm.
3. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the at least one power transistor and the at least one signal transistor are simultaneously formed by simultaneously diffusing the base regions thereof, the emitter regions thereof, and the collector contacts thereof.
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