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- the gate terminal which is electrically tied to the anode in the device, makes it necessary that the body region be very lightly doped to the point where the channel is partially formed even when the anode and the cathode are at the same potential.
- V f current I f flows between the anode and the cathode under a forward bias and a voltage drop V f develops between the two terminals, and product of I f and V f represents one aspect of the power loss in the rectifier.
- the measured voltage drop V f can be modeled as the sum of voltage drops associated with several resistances in series. They include the channel resistance, the drift region (epitaxial layer or epilayer) resistance, the substrate resistance, and connection resistances to the anode and the cathode.
- V f is limited by the level of leakage the target application can stand, and the balance of losses between forward bias and reverse bias conditions.
- the second generation SBR products from Diodes Incorporated significantly reduced the V f by increasing channel density, placing gate electrodes inside vertical trenches. These devices perform very well for up to 100V, but the advantages at still higher voltages are not so pronounced because of the need to increase the drift region (epi layer) thickness in order to sustain the higher voltages and which leads to the consequential increase in resistance.
- split gate MOSFETs trench structures, commonly called “split gate” MOSFETs, to benefit from having a gate and an extended shield electrode in the same trenches and separated and isolated from each other by a dielectric layer.
- the shield electrode is maintained at source potential whilst the gate electrode is modulated to turn the MOSFET on or off.
- Spilt-gate MOSFET structures are also commonly implemented in trench termination structures. Such structures are often manifested as several concentric trenches enclosing the mesa array in the active area of the device. These termination trench structures have a field plate, which are isolated from the anode and from the cathode by the same dielectric material as in the active trenches.
- the present inventors recognize that, brute force attempts to further reduce epi layer doping and its thickness in order to further reduce V, and increase breakdown voltage of a MOS gated trench rectifier will run into two problems and can result in loss of control of leakage current or breakdown voltage, or both, for the following reasons.
- the device cannot exert sufficient field on the mesas next to the trench to turn the channel off sufficiently and excessive leakage results in at least the outermost active mesa next to the termination trench. This is because while within the active area the presence of a reverse biased on the thin oxide gate can turn the channel off to stop current flow; the lack of a thin oxide gate on the terminating trench at the outermost contacted mesa leaves the channel partially open to leakage under reverse bias.
- the Inventors recognize that the conflicting requirements of the dielectric layer thickness is at the root of the problem of leakage problem and the voltage blocking problem, and a novel device structure is needed to raise the operating voltage of the trench SBR devices and to hold the leakage current to within tolerable limits, and also to take advantage of the trench field plate to further reduce V f through reduction of drift region resistance.
- the inventors then endeavored to invent and manufacture a novel device structure, which enables the active trenches to effectively switch current on and off, and the termination trenches to sustain high reverse voltage.
- the device functions to switch a current on and off between an anode and a cathode, two terminals disposed on the two principal surfaces of a semiconductor chip.
- An array of active trenches is disposed at the center, active region of the chip. Enclosing the active area at the periphery of the device is a termination area in which termination trenches are disposed.
- the configuration of the active trenches is calculated to meet the on-resistance requirements, or the amount of current that must be switched on and off; and the configuration of the termination trenches is calculated to shape of the electric field in the chip to prevent electric premature field induced breakdown when the device is under reverse bias.
- And between the active area and the termination area is disposed an asymmetric trench.
- the asymmetric trench is structured for both switching a current and to block a reverse voltage.
- the active trench and the termination trench are structurally symmetrical with respect to an imaginary center plane that runs along the middle of the trench in parallel to the two opposing sidewalls of the trench. They each have a similar field plate member that extends from the chip surface to near the bottom tip of the trench and separated from the trench sidewalls and the bottom tip by a layer of relatively thick dielectric material. In the active trenches, a top portion of this thick dielectric material is replaced by the combination of a gate electrode and a thinner layer of gate dielectric that separates the gate electrode from the trench walls and from the field plate.
- the asymmetric trench is disposed at the border of the active area and the termination area.
- One side of the asymmetric trench faces the active area and the other side of the asymmetric trench faces the termination area.
- this transitional trench is structurally asymmetric with respect to the imaginary center plane.
- the half structure that faces the active area is similarly to an active trench and is capable of effectively switching a current on and off; the other half structure of the asymmetric trench that faces the termination area comprises a thick oxide similarly to other termination trenches and can contribute to the shaping of the electric field in the device to alleviate premature breakdown under reverse bias.
- FIG. 1 depicts a schematic top view of a portion of a semiconductor device, which embodies aspects of this invention.
- FIG. 2 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of an active trench structure embodying aspects of this invention.
- FIG. 3 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of a termination trench structure embodying aspects of this invention.
- FIG. 4 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of an asymmetric trench structure embodying aspects of this invention.
- FIG. 5 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of a structure of multiple of trench structure embodying aspects of this invention.
- FIGS. 6 a 6 b , 6 c , and 6 d depict schematic cross sectional views of an asymmetric trench structure in different states of partial completion.
- a semiconductor device chip or a chip in the context of this disclosure and claims means a slab of semiconductor material such as silicon, germanium, silicon carbide, diamond, gallium arsenide, and gallium nitride, or their combinations.
- the top and the bottom surfaces of the chip usually are two parallel principal crystallographic planes such as ⁇ 100 ⁇ or ⁇ 110 ⁇ planes of a silicon crystal.
- Integrated circuits and discrete circuit devices can be built in and on the top surface of the chips.
- the term top surface of the chip or chip surface means the top surface plane of the semiconductor device chip where most of the device components are located; the bottom surface mean the bottom surface plane opposite the top surface.
- a trench is a structural element that is built into the bulk of a chip perpendicular to the chip surface. Trenches are usually formed by removing material from where a patterned photoresist is absent. The removal of material is usually done with a reactive ion etching process. Trenches when viewed from the chip surface usually have repetitive long-striped pattern, such as depicted in FIG. 1 of this paper.
- the walls of a trench are the vertical or near vertical surfaces of the semiconductor material extending from the top of the chip into the bulk of the chip.
- the width of a trench is the distance between the two opposing trench walls and the length of the trench coextends with the long stripe and is orthogonal to the width of the trench.
- the depth of a trench is measured perpendicular to the top of the chip and is the distance from the top surface of the chip to the bottom of the trench, which is the endpoint of the etching step.
- the aspect ratio—the ratio of the trench depth to trench width is defined as greater than 1.5.
- the center of the trench means an imaginary plane about equidistant from the two opposite sidewalls of a trench.
- a mesa in the context of this disclosure and claims is a region of semiconductor material between two adjacent trenches, its depth is defined by the depth of the neighboring trenches and its width may be comparable, wider or narrower than the width of the trenches.
- An active trench in the context of this disclosure and claims is a trench of which a portion of the trench walls provides a current path in the semiconductor device when bias voltages are properly applied to the device.
- a termination trench in the context of this disclosure and claims is a trench that does not provide a current path under normal operation conditions. It is usually located close to the periphery of the device chip and serves to shape the electric field in the device.
- a field plate in a semiconductor device is a conductive member disposed near a p-n junction for the purpose of shaping the electrical field distribution near the p-n junction.
- the field plate may comprise metal or polysilicon.
- the conductive member may be disposed inside a trench to increase the breakdown voltage of the p-n junction between the body region and the drift region.
- An asymmetric trench in the context of this disclosure and claims comprises a trench with an active half trench structure on one side and a termination half trench structure on the other side of the trench.
- a gate dielectric layer in the context of this disclosure and claims is a layer of dielectric material such as SiO 2 , for modulating the electric potential of a semiconductor surface to create or to destroy a conductive channel at the semiconductor surface near the dielectric layer.
- a field plate dielectric layer in the context of this disclosure and claims is a dielectric layer that lines the sidewalls of the termination trenches and portions of the active trenches where the field plate is adjacent to the trench sidewalls without an intervening gate electrode.
- filling and lining are two process steps for adding material to the inside of a trench.
- Filing means to completely fill the inside of a trench to the extent that is practicable in the current manufacturing process. For example, in a chemical vapor deposition process, depending on the aspect ratio of the trench to be filled, it may leave a crevice at the middle of the trench due to the necking effect of the process.
- Lining means forming a layer either by thermal oxidation or by deposition of a conformal film to cover only the surface of the trench walls and leave a gap at the middle of the trench.
- An Ohmic contact in the context of this disclosure and claims means a non-rectifying junction between a conductor and a semiconductor, or between two conductors, that has a linear current-voltage (I-V) relationship according to Ohm's law.
- the two objects are understood to be lying near, close, or contiguous to each other. They are neighboring to each other. There may be other objects between them but the intervening object should be of dissimilar nature and character.
- FIG. 1 depicts the top view of a portion of a semiconductor device 100 that embodies some aspects of this invention.
- the depicted device 100 comprises trenches including active trenches 101 , termination trenches 103 , and an asymmetric trench 105 .
- the active trenches 101 as depicted are generally parallel to one another, each with a width 109 .
- Mesas 107 separate the trenches.
- the widths of the active trenches in this exemplary device 100 are equal, so are the widths of the mesas. In other device designs embodying this invention, the widths of the active trenches may be different from one another, so are the widths of the mesas.
- the termination trenches 103 are disposed near the periphery T of the semiconductor device 100 and for rings enclosing the active trenches in the active area A of the device.
- the width of the termination trenches is wider than that of the active trenches.
- the depth of the termination trenches is deeper than that of the active trenches due to what is known in the art as the micro-loading effect.
- the active trenches 101 and the termination trenches 103 are symmetric trenches with respect to respective imaginary plane 101 c and 103 c , which runs along the center of the trenches.
- Trench 105 which is between the active trenches 101 and the termination trenches 103 , is asymmetric with respect to its center plane 105 c .
- One side 105 a adjacent to the active trenches 101 is similarly structured as the active trenches 101 ; the other side 105 b adjacent the termination trenches 103 , is differently structured and is similar to the termination trenches 103 .
- This asymmetric trench 105 separates the active area A from the termination area T.
- FIG. 2 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross section of an exemplary active trench structure 201 of a semiconductor device 200 , which embodies certain aspects of this invention.
- the microscopic photograph is taken, for example, in a section plane 1 - 1 in FIG. 1 along the width of an active trench 101 .
- the example semiconductor chip 210 comprises a silicon substrate and an epitaxial layer on the substrate.
- the active trench 201 is formed by removing silicon from the top 250 of the epitaxial layer with, for example, a reactive ion etch process.
- the aspect ratio of the trench that is the depth d, measured from the chip top surface 250 to the bottom 255 of the trench, to the width w of the trench, measured between the opposing trench sidewalls 222 near the top surface 250 of the chip is about 1.7. Other aspect ratios may be adopted for other application of this invention, but the aspect ratio should be no less than 1.5 for the device to be practical.
- the two sidewalls 222 of the trench are substantially vertical to the chip surface 250 and are lined, along with the bottom surface of the trench with dielectric layers 230 and 240 , which in this embodiment are silicon dioxide.
- dielectric layers 230 and 240 which in this embodiment are silicon dioxide.
- Other applications may choose to use different dielectric materials such as silicon nitride.
- the two dielectric layers 230 and 240 serve different functions in the semiconductor device 200 .
- Layer 230 is thicker than layer 240 and is calculated to sustain the electric field of a reverse bias voltage without breaking down.
- Layer 240 serves as the gate dielectric and is calculated to turn on the device at forward bias condition and turn off the device at the absence of the forward bias.
- the thickness of the layer 230 is in the range of 0.2-0.8 ⁇ m and the thickness of the layer 240 is in the range of 5-50 nm. Other ranges may be adopted depending on the applications.
- a conductive element 260 In contact with the gate dielectric layer 240 in the trench 201 is a conductive element 260 , which functions in device 200 as the gate electrode.
- the gate electrode 260 comprises doped polysilicon.
- a forward bias voltage above a threshold voltage is applied to the gate electrode 260 , a conductive channel forms next to the gate dielectric in a semiconductor mesa and through which electric current may flow.
- a reverse bias is applied to the gate electrode, the channel collapses and electric current ceases to flow.
- the length 280 of the gate electrode 260 corresponds approximately to the channel length of the device 200 .
- the field plate 270 At the center portion of the trench 201 is a field plate 270 of a conductive material.
- the field plate comprises doped polysilicon.
- the field plate 270 extends from above the chip surface 250 to the dielectric 230 that lines the bottom of the trench 201 .
- this metal layer 290 comprises metal silicide such as titanium silicide, which makes ohmic contacts to the field plate at its top surface 275 and to the gate electrodes at their top surface 285 and to the mesa surface 250 .
- an n-channel is formed next to the gate dielectric layer 240 in a p-body region that extends from mesa surface 260 to near the gate length 280 .
- Polarities of dopant may change in other embodiments to result in a p-channel formed in n-body region.
- FIG. 3 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross section of an example termination trench 303 structure in a semiconductor device 300 , which embodies some aspects of this invention.
- the microscopic photograph is taken, for example, in a section plane 3 - 3 in FIG. 1 , along the width of a termination trench 103 .
- the termination trench 303 in the semiconductor chip 310 is, in many aspects, similar to the active trench 201 as depicted in FIG. 2 . Two aspects, at least, differentiate an example termination trench 303 from an example active trench 201 .
- the field plate 370 is capped at the top surface 375 by a layer of dielectric material 335 .
- the electrical potential of the field plate 370 therefore is not fixed either to the anode voltage or to the cathode voltage—it seeks a potential between the two terminal voltages based on electrodynamics.
- FIG. 4 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of an example asymmetrical trench 405 structure in a semiconductor device 400 , which embodies some aspects of this invention.
- the microscopic photograph is taken, for example, in a section plane 2 - 2 along the width of an asymmetrical trench 105 in FIG. 1 .
- the asymmetric trench 405 shares some characteristics with the active trench 201 and the termination trench 303 but are different from both trenches in certain aspects.
- Semiconductor chip 410 is similar to chip 210 in FIG. 2 and chip 310 in FIG. 3 in many ways.
- the trench 405 may be formed similarly as the trench 201 and 303 and may have similar aspect ratios.
- the two sidewalls 4221 and 422 r in this example structure are substantially vertical to the chip surface 450 although they may form an angle to the chip surface other than an right angle.
- the lower portion of the sidewalls and the bottom 455 of the trench are lined with a thick dielectric layer 430 .
- the middle of the trench is filled with a conductive field plate 470 that extends from approximately the chip surface 450 to near the bottom of the trench 455 .
- the structure near the upper portion of the trench 405 gives it the asymmetric appearance.
- the entire right sidewall 422 r of trench 405 is lined with the thicker dielectric layer 430 ; while the upper portion of the left sidewall 4221 of this example trench is lined with a gate dielectric layer 440 .
- Both dielectric layers in this embodiment comprise silicon dioxide.
- Other dielectric materials known in the art such as silicon nitride may also be used.
- Another differentiating aspect is that only one gate electrode 460 is disposed in the asymmetric trench.
- the gate electrode 460 similar to the gate electrodes in the active trenches, is disposed between the gate dielectric 440 and the field plate 470 and is similarly isolated from the field plate by a dielectric material 445 .
- the dielectric material 445 and the gate dielectric 440 are formed concurrently although they may be different in thickness.
- the field plate 470 which comprises a conductive material, which fills the trench to the top surface 450 and slightly beyond.
- the field plate 470 at its bottom is separated from the trench by a layer of dielectric material, such as silicon dioxide.
- a crevice 475 may be observed in the middle of the field plate 470 in some embodiments. It is a vestige of a chemical vapor deposition process with which the field plate 470 is formed.
- an n-channel forms next to the gate dielectric layer 440 near the left sidewall 4221 in a p-body region.
- FIG. 5 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross section of an example device 500 in a partially completed stage. After its completion, the device may be assembled in various packages known in the art, one example is a single-in-line (SIP) package; another example is a multi-chip package in which device 500 in a chip form may be packaged with a controller chip.
- Device 500 comprises a termination trench 503 , an active trench 501 , and an asymmetrical trench 505 between the termination trench and the active trench.
- the structure of the termination trench 503 is similar to the termination trench as depicted in FIG. 3 ; the structure of the active trench 501 is similar to the active trench as depicted in FIG. 2 ; and the structure of the asymmetric trench 505 is similar to the asymmetric trench as depicted in FIG. 4 .
- Conductive layer 590 may extend over layer 535 .
- FIGS. 6 a , 6 b , 6 c , and 6 d depict the schematic cross sectional views of an asymmetric trench structure in different states of partial completion.
- FIG. 6 a depicts a partially completed device with a trench 605 in a semiconductor wafer.
- the wafer comprises a heavily doped substrate 60 and a less heavily doped epitaxial layer 65 .
- the semiconductor is silicon
- the dopant for both the substrate and the epitaxial layer is n-type, such as phosphorous.
- the layer 630 which in device 600 is silicon dioxide, covers the chip surface 650 and the two opposite trench sidewalls 622 and trench bottom 627 .
- the trench bottom has rounded corners.
- the layer 630 may be chemically deposited or thermally grown. The thickness of this layer is dictated by the operating conduction of the finished device, especially the maximum reverse bias voltage.
- the wafer top and the inside of the trench are coated with a conductive material 670 , which in this exemplary device 600 is doped polysilicon.
- FIG. 6 b depicts the device 600 at a later stage of fabrication.
- the polysilicon is etched from the top of the wafer. Afterwards a portion of silicon dioxide layer 630 is removed to expose the chip surface 650 .
- FIG. 6 c depicts the asymmetric trench structure at yet a later stage of fabrication.
- the silicon dioxide on one sidewall of the trench is etched down to a depth 680 .
- the etchant used in the removing process is chosen to have good etching selectivity with respect to silicon, so the single crystal silicon layer mesa and the polysilicon in the trench are preserved.
- the silicon dioxide 630 r on the opposite sidewall is protected from etchant by a patterned photo resist layer 635 .
- a termination trench may be fabricated in the device 600 concurrently with the asymmetric trench 605 by extending the photo resist pattern 635 to cover the silicon oxide on both sidewalls of a trench such as one depicted in FIG. 6 so the silicon dioxide inside the trench on both sidewalls remains un-etched.
- An active trench may also be fabricated in the device 600 concurrently with the asymmetric trench 606 and a termination trench by uncovering the silicon dioxide on both sidewalls of the intended active trench and etching to the same depth 680 .
- FIG. 6 d also depicts a gate dielectric film 640 , which lines the upper portion of the trench sidewall from which silicon dioxide 630 was previously removed in a process step as depicted in FIG. 6 c .
- the gate dielectric film also comprises silicon dioxide.
- Other gate dielectric material such as silicon nitride may be used in other implementations of this invention.
- the gate electrode 660 which comprises a conductive material.
- the material comprises doped polysilicon.
- Other conductive material such as refractory metals may also be used as the gate electrode.
- FIG. 6 d also depicts a conductive layer 690 , which covers and makes ohmic contact to the gate electrode 660 and the field plate 670 .
- the conductive layer 690 also makes ohmic contact to the top surface 650 of the mesa adjacent to the trench in the epi layer 65 .
- the top portion of the epi layer 655 may be doped with a dopant of the opposite polarity to that in the substrate 60 and the lower portion of the epitaxial layer 65 .
- dopant is boron.
- the doped region comprises the body region 67 in which conductive channel forms when the rectifier is proper biased. If Schottky diode is part of device 600 , that portion of the epilayer is shielded from boron doping.
- dielectric material 631 Over the right side of the trench structure 606 where the silicon dioxide 630 remains un-etched, there is a layer of dielectric material 631 .
- the edge of the dielectric material 631 buts against the edge of the conductive layer 690 so the mesa top to the right of the trench 605 is not in contact with the conductive layer 690 .
- Dielectric material 631 is also disposed over the termination trench fabricated concurrently with the asymmetric trench of device 600 .
- the conductive layer 690 in this exemplary device comprises titanium silicide.
- Other metals such as platinum silicide may also be used if a Schottky diode is to be fabricated in the device 600 .
- Additional metal such as copper or aluminum 695 may be added to the top of the conductive 690 in order to reduce the device total resistance along the current path.
- FIG. 1 is a portion of an actual device layout and FIGS. 2-5 are scanning electron micrographs of silicon wafers in which devices of layout in FIG. 1 are implemented.
- FIGS. 6 a -6 d are computer generated graphics and the elements in them are not drawn to actual proportion for the purpose of clarity in illustration.
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Abstract
A trenched MOS gate controlled rectifier has an asymmetric trench structure between the active area of active trenches and the termination area of termination trenches. The asymmetric trench structure has a gate electrode on one side of the trench to turn on and off the channel of the MOS structure effectively and a field plate structure on the other side with field dielectric sufficiently thick in order to sustain the high electric field during the reverse bias condition.
Description
- The first generation MOS gate controlled rectifiers from Diodes Incorporated, under the name of Super Barrier Rectifier (SBR), have planar MOS structures in which forward current is conducted through a channel in the body region. The gate terminal, which is electrically tied to the anode in the device, makes it necessary that the body region be very lightly doped to the point where the channel is partially formed even when the anode and the cathode are at the same potential.
- In such a device, current If flows between the anode and the cathode under a forward bias and a voltage drop Vf develops between the two terminals, and product of If and Vf represents one aspect of the power loss in the rectifier. The measured voltage drop Vf can be modeled as the sum of voltage drops associated with several resistances in series. They include the channel resistance, the drift region (epitaxial layer or epilayer) resistance, the substrate resistance, and connection resistances to the anode and the cathode.
- Ideally, current ceases to flow when the rectifier is under reverse bias. Practically, however, leakage current exists. Product of the leakage current and the reverse bias voltage, then, represents another aspect of the power loss in the rectifier.
- Further lowering the body doping can lower its contribution to Vf. But this is achieved at the expense of increased channel leakage under reverse bias. In practice the Vf is limited by the level of leakage the target application can stand, and the balance of losses between forward bias and reverse bias conditions.
- The second generation SBR products from Diodes Incorporated significantly reduced the Vf by increasing channel density, placing gate electrodes inside vertical trenches. These devices perform very well for up to 100V, but the advantages at still higher voltages are not so pronounced because of the need to increase the drift region (epi layer) thickness in order to sustain the higher voltages and which leads to the consequential increase in resistance.
- In U.S. Pat. No. 4,941,026, Temple discloses a charge controlled structure in which the use of extended gate electrodes within vertical MOS gated devices enables further reduction of the epi layer thickness. The electrostatic effect exerted by the extended portion of the gate electrode, which is shielded by a thicker dielectric film than the gate dielectric controls the charges within the drift region between the trenches such that a higher breakdown voltage can be achieved than by a planar junction using the same epi resistivity.
- Several MOSFET suppliers have subsequently developed trench structures, commonly called “split gate” MOSFETs, to benefit from having a gate and an extended shield electrode in the same trenches and separated and isolated from each other by a dielectric layer. In these structures the shield electrode is maintained at source potential whilst the gate electrode is modulated to turn the MOSFET on or off.
- Spilt-gate MOSFET structures are also commonly implemented in trench termination structures. Such structures are often manifested as several concentric trenches enclosing the mesa array in the active area of the device. These termination trench structures have a field plate, which are isolated from the anode and from the cathode by the same dielectric material as in the active trenches.
- The present inventors recognize that, brute force attempts to further reduce epi layer doping and its thickness in order to further reduce V, and increase breakdown voltage of a MOS gated trench rectifier will run into two problems and can result in loss of control of leakage current or breakdown voltage, or both, for the following reasons.
- First, if termination trenches adopt the thin gate oxide for the field plate to control leakage current during reverse bias, catastrophic breakdown failure results in the termination trench that is closest to the active area. This is because the electric field under reverse bias pushes up into the termination mesa and exerts a electric field on the thin shield dielectric layer that is higher than it can sustain and results in rupture of the oxide at the terminating trenches. The inescapable conclusion is that gate oxide must be excluded from terminating trenches.
- Second, if the termination trenches adopt the thicker shield oxide in order to avoid rupture at reverse bias, the device cannot exert sufficient field on the mesas next to the trench to turn the channel off sufficiently and excessive leakage results in at least the outermost active mesa next to the termination trench. This is because while within the active area the presence of a reverse biased on the thin oxide gate can turn the channel off to stop current flow; the lack of a thin oxide gate on the terminating trench at the outermost contacted mesa leaves the channel partially open to leakage under reverse bias.
- The Inventors recognize that the conflicting requirements of the dielectric layer thickness is at the root of the problem of leakage problem and the voltage blocking problem, and a novel device structure is needed to raise the operating voltage of the trench SBR devices and to hold the leakage current to within tolerable limits, and also to take advantage of the trench field plate to further reduce Vf through reduction of drift region resistance. The inventors then endeavored to invent and manufacture a novel device structure, which enables the active trenches to effectively switch current on and off, and the termination trenches to sustain high reverse voltage.
- The following exemplary device is briefly described in order to summarize the invention. The device functions to switch a current on and off between an anode and a cathode, two terminals disposed on the two principal surfaces of a semiconductor chip. An array of active trenches is disposed at the center, active region of the chip. Enclosing the active area at the periphery of the device is a termination area in which termination trenches are disposed. The configuration of the active trenches is calculated to meet the on-resistance requirements, or the amount of current that must be switched on and off; and the configuration of the termination trenches is calculated to shape of the electric field in the chip to prevent electric premature field induced breakdown when the device is under reverse bias. And between the active area and the termination area is disposed an asymmetric trench. The asymmetric trench is structured for both switching a current and to block a reverse voltage.
- The active trench and the termination trench are structurally symmetrical with respect to an imaginary center plane that runs along the middle of the trench in parallel to the two opposing sidewalls of the trench. They each have a similar field plate member that extends from the chip surface to near the bottom tip of the trench and separated from the trench sidewalls and the bottom tip by a layer of relatively thick dielectric material. In the active trenches, a top portion of this thick dielectric material is replaced by the combination of a gate electrode and a thinner layer of gate dielectric that separates the gate electrode from the trench walls and from the field plate.
- The asymmetric trench is disposed at the border of the active area and the termination area. One side of the asymmetric trench faces the active area and the other side of the asymmetric trench faces the termination area. Unlike the active trench and the termination trench, this transitional trench is structurally asymmetric with respect to the imaginary center plane. The half structure that faces the active area is similarly to an active trench and is capable of effectively switching a current on and off; the other half structure of the asymmetric trench that faces the termination area comprises a thick oxide similarly to other termination trenches and can contribute to the shaping of the electric field in the device to alleviate premature breakdown under reverse bias.
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FIG. 1 depicts a schematic top view of a portion of a semiconductor device, which embodies aspects of this invention. -
FIG. 2 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of an active trench structure embodying aspects of this invention. -
FIG. 3 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of a termination trench structure embodying aspects of this invention. -
FIG. 4 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of an asymmetric trench structure embodying aspects of this invention. -
FIG. 5 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of a structure of multiple of trench structure embodying aspects of this invention. -
FIGS. 6a 6b, 6c, and 6d depict schematic cross sectional views of an asymmetric trench structure in different states of partial completion. - The terms used in this disclosure generally have their ordinary meanings in the art. Certain terms are discussed below to provide additional guidance to the practitioners regarding the description of the invention. It will be appreciated that the same things can be described in more than one way. Consequently, alternative language and synonyms may be used.
- A semiconductor device chip or a chip in the context of this disclosure and claims means a slab of semiconductor material such as silicon, germanium, silicon carbide, diamond, gallium arsenide, and gallium nitride, or their combinations. The top and the bottom surfaces of the chip usually are two parallel principal crystallographic planes such as {100} or {110} planes of a silicon crystal. Integrated circuits and discrete circuit devices can be built in and on the top surface of the chips. In this disclosure, the term top surface of the chip or chip surface means the top surface plane of the semiconductor device chip where most of the device components are located; the bottom surface mean the bottom surface plane opposite the top surface.
- A trench is a structural element that is built into the bulk of a chip perpendicular to the chip surface. Trenches are usually formed by removing material from where a patterned photoresist is absent. The removal of material is usually done with a reactive ion etching process. Trenches when viewed from the chip surface usually have repetitive long-striped pattern, such as depicted in
FIG. 1 of this paper. The walls of a trench are the vertical or near vertical surfaces of the semiconductor material extending from the top of the chip into the bulk of the chip. In this disclosure and claims, the width of a trench is the distance between the two opposing trench walls and the length of the trench coextends with the long stripe and is orthogonal to the width of the trench. The depth of a trench is measured perpendicular to the top of the chip and is the distance from the top surface of the chip to the bottom of the trench, which is the endpoint of the etching step. In the context of this disclosure and claims, the aspect ratio—the ratio of the trench depth to trench width is defined as greater than 1.5. The center of the trench means an imaginary plane about equidistant from the two opposite sidewalls of a trench. - A mesa in the context of this disclosure and claims is a region of semiconductor material between two adjacent trenches, its depth is defined by the depth of the neighboring trenches and its width may be comparable, wider or narrower than the width of the trenches.
- An active trench in the context of this disclosure and claims is a trench of which a portion of the trench walls provides a current path in the semiconductor device when bias voltages are properly applied to the device.
- A termination trench in the context of this disclosure and claims is a trench that does not provide a current path under normal operation conditions. It is usually located close to the periphery of the device chip and serves to shape the electric field in the device.
- A field plate in a semiconductor device is a conductive member disposed near a p-n junction for the purpose of shaping the electrical field distribution near the p-n junction. The field plate may comprise metal or polysilicon. In the context of this disclosure and claims the conductive member may be disposed inside a trench to increase the breakdown voltage of the p-n junction between the body region and the drift region.
- An asymmetric trench in the context of this disclosure and claims comprises a trench with an active half trench structure on one side and a termination half trench structure on the other side of the trench.
- A gate dielectric layer in the context of this disclosure and claims is a layer of dielectric material such as SiO2, for modulating the electric potential of a semiconductor surface to create or to destroy a conductive channel at the semiconductor surface near the dielectric layer.
- A field plate dielectric layer in the context of this disclosure and claims is a dielectric layer that lines the sidewalls of the termination trenches and portions of the active trenches where the field plate is adjacent to the trench sidewalls without an intervening gate electrode.
- In the context of this disclosure and claims, filling and lining are two process steps for adding material to the inside of a trench. Filing means to completely fill the inside of a trench to the extent that is practicable in the current manufacturing process. For example, in a chemical vapor deposition process, depending on the aspect ratio of the trench to be filled, it may leave a crevice at the middle of the trench due to the necking effect of the process. Lining means forming a layer either by thermal oxidation or by deposition of a conformal film to cover only the surface of the trench walls and leave a gap at the middle of the trench.
- Similarity in the context of this disclosure and claims means when two quantities are said to be similar, it is understood to mean they are equal or close to be equal within the semiconductor device process limitation and measurement, not necessarily mathematically equal.
- In the context of this disclosure and claims, when a process is performed on “only one side” of a trench, it means the process is so performed that the effect does not manifest on the “opposite side” of the same trench.
- An Ohmic contact in the context of this disclosure and claims means a non-rectifying junction between a conductor and a semiconductor, or between two conductors, that has a linear current-voltage (I-V) relationship according to Ohm's law.
- When an object is described in this disclosure and claims as being adjacent to another object, the two objects are understood to be lying near, close, or contiguous to each other. They are neighboring to each other. There may be other objects between them but the intervening object should be of dissimilar nature and character.
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FIG. 1 depicts the top view of a portion of asemiconductor device 100 that embodies some aspects of this invention. The depicteddevice 100 comprises trenches includingactive trenches 101,termination trenches 103, and anasymmetric trench 105. - The
active trenches 101 as depicted are generally parallel to one another, each with awidth 109.Mesas 107 separate the trenches. The widths of the active trenches in thisexemplary device 100 are equal, so are the widths of the mesas. In other device designs embodying this invention, the widths of the active trenches may be different from one another, so are the widths of the mesas. - The
termination trenches 103 are disposed near the periphery T of thesemiconductor device 100 and for rings enclosing the active trenches in the active area A of the device. - In this embodiment, the width of the termination trenches is wider than that of the active trenches. As a result, even though both groups of trenches may be formed concurrently during the fabrication process, the depth of the termination trenches is deeper than that of the active trenches due to what is known in the art as the micro-loading effect.
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active trenches 101 and thetermination trenches 103 are symmetric trenches with respect to respectiveimaginary plane -
Trench 105, which is between theactive trenches 101 and thetermination trenches 103, is asymmetric with respect to itscenter plane 105 c. Oneside 105 a adjacent to theactive trenches 101 is similarly structured as theactive trenches 101; theother side 105 b adjacent thetermination trenches 103, is differently structured and is similar to thetermination trenches 103. Thisasymmetric trench 105 separates the active area A from the termination area T. -
FIG. 2 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross section of an exemplaryactive trench structure 201 of asemiconductor device 200, which embodies certain aspects of this invention. The microscopic photograph is taken, for example, in a section plane 1-1 inFIG. 1 along the width of anactive trench 101. - The
example semiconductor chip 210 comprises a silicon substrate and an epitaxial layer on the substrate. Theactive trench 201 is formed by removing silicon from the top 250 of the epitaxial layer with, for example, a reactive ion etch process. The aspect ratio of the trench, that is the depth d, measured from the chiptop surface 250 to thebottom 255 of the trench, to the width w of the trench, measured between the opposing trench sidewalls 222 near thetop surface 250 of the chip is about 1.7. Other aspect ratios may be adopted for other application of this invention, but the aspect ratio should be no less than 1.5 for the device to be practical. - The two
sidewalls 222 of the trench are substantially vertical to thechip surface 250 and are lined, along with the bottom surface of the trench withdielectric layers - The two
dielectric layers semiconductor device 200.Layer 230 is thicker thanlayer 240 and is calculated to sustain the electric field of a reverse bias voltage without breaking down.Layer 240 serves as the gate dielectric and is calculated to turn on the device at forward bias condition and turn off the device at the absence of the forward bias. In the embodiment depicted inFIG. 2 , the thickness of thelayer 230 is in the range of 0.2-0.8 μm and the thickness of thelayer 240 is in the range of 5-50 nm. Other ranges may be adopted depending on the applications. - In contact with the
gate dielectric layer 240 in thetrench 201 is aconductive element 260, which functions indevice 200 as the gate electrode. In theexample device 200, thegate electrode 260 comprises doped polysilicon. When a forward bias voltage above a threshold voltage is applied to thegate electrode 260, a conductive channel forms next to the gate dielectric in a semiconductor mesa and through which electric current may flow. When a reverse bias is applied to the gate electrode, the channel collapses and electric current ceases to flow. Thelength 280 of thegate electrode 260 corresponds approximately to the channel length of thedevice 200. - At the center portion of the
trench 201 is afield plate 270 of a conductive material. In thisexample device 200, the field plate comprises doped polysilicon. Thefield plate 270 extends from above thechip surface 250 to the dielectric 230 that lines the bottom of thetrench 201. - Over the
field plate 270 and over thegate electrodes 260 on both sides of the field plate is a layer ofconductive material 290. This layer may comprise more than one conductive layer. Indevice 200, thismetal layer 290 comprises metal silicide such as titanium silicide, which makes ohmic contacts to the field plate at itstop surface 275 and to the gate electrodes at theirtop surface 285 and to themesa surface 250. - When
device 200 is forward biased, an n-channel is formed next to thegate dielectric layer 240 in a p-body region that extends frommesa surface 260 to near thegate length 280. Polarities of dopant may change in other embodiments to result in a p-channel formed in n-body region. -
FIG. 3 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross section of anexample termination trench 303 structure in asemiconductor device 300, which embodies some aspects of this invention. The microscopic photograph is taken, for example, in a section plane 3-3 inFIG. 1 , along the width of atermination trench 103. - The
termination trench 303 in thesemiconductor chip 310 is, in many aspects, similar to theactive trench 201 as depicted inFIG. 2 . Two aspects, at least, differentiate anexample termination trench 303 from an exampleactive trench 201. - First, there are no gate electrodes and no gate dielectric layer in the
termination trench 303. Bothsidewalls 322 are lined withdielectric material 330 of a rather uniform thickness. As a result, no conductive channel forms, during normal operation, next to thedielectric material 330 in the mesa regionadjacent trench 303. - Second, the
field plate 370 is capped at thetop surface 375 by a layer ofdielectric material 335. The electrical potential of thefield plate 370 therefore is not fixed either to the anode voltage or to the cathode voltage—it seeks a potential between the two terminal voltages based on electrodynamics. -
FIG. 4 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross sectional of an exampleasymmetrical trench 405 structure in asemiconductor device 400, which embodies some aspects of this invention. The microscopic photograph is taken, for example, in a section plane 2-2 along the width of anasymmetrical trench 105 inFIG. 1 . Theasymmetric trench 405 shares some characteristics with theactive trench 201 and thetermination trench 303 but are different from both trenches in certain aspects. -
Semiconductor chip 410 is similar tochip 210 inFIG. 2 andchip 310 inFIG. 3 in many ways. Thetrench 405 may be formed similarly as thetrench chip surface 450 although they may form an angle to the chip surface other than an right angle. The lower portion of the sidewalls and thebottom 455 of the trench are lined with athick dielectric layer 430. The middle of the trench is filled with aconductive field plate 470 that extends from approximately thechip surface 450 to near the bottom of thetrench 455. - The structure near the upper portion of the
trench 405, however, gives it the asymmetric appearance. As depicted inFIG. 4 , the entireright sidewall 422 r oftrench 405 is lined with the thickerdielectric layer 430; while the upper portion of theleft sidewall 4221 of this example trench is lined with agate dielectric layer 440. Both dielectric layers in this embodiment comprise silicon dioxide. Other dielectric materials known in the art such as silicon nitride may also be used. - Another differentiating aspect is that only one
gate electrode 460 is disposed in the asymmetric trench. Thegate electrode 460, similar to the gate electrodes in the active trenches, is disposed between thegate dielectric 440 and thefield plate 470 and is similarly isolated from the field plate by adielectric material 445. In this embodiment, thedielectric material 445 and thegate dielectric 440 are formed concurrently although they may be different in thickness. - At the center of the
asymmetric trench 405 is thefield plate 470, which comprises a conductive material, which fills the trench to thetop surface 450 and slightly beyond. Thefield plate 470 at its bottom is separated from the trench by a layer of dielectric material, such as silicon dioxide. Acrevice 475 may be observed in the middle of thefield plate 470 in some embodiments. It is a vestige of a chemical vapor deposition process with which thefield plate 470 is formed. - When the
exemplary device 400 is under forward bias voltage supplied to aconductive member 490, which is in contact with thefield plate 470 and thegate electrode 460 at its top 485, an n-channel forms next to thegate dielectric layer 440 near theleft sidewall 4221 in a p-body region. -
FIG. 5 is a scanning electron microscopic photograph of the cross section of anexample device 500 in a partially completed stage. After its completion, the device may be assembled in various packages known in the art, one example is a single-in-line (SIP) package; another example is a multi-chip package in whichdevice 500 in a chip form may be packaged with a controller chip.Device 500 comprises atermination trench 503, anactive trench 501, and anasymmetrical trench 505 between the termination trench and the active trench. - The structure of the
termination trench 503 is similar to the termination trench as depicted inFIG. 3 ; the structure of theactive trench 501 is similar to the active trench as depicted inFIG. 2 ; and the structure of theasymmetric trench 505 is similar to the asymmetric trench as depicted inFIG. 4 . There is aconductive layer 590 that extends over, and contacts to, the top of theactive trench 501 and terminates at the middle of theasymmetric trench 505. It makes ohmic contact to thegate electrodes 560 in theactive trench structure 501 and in theasymmetric trench structure 505. It also makesohmic contact 575 to thefield plate 5701 of theactive trench structure 501 and to the field plate 5706 of theasymmetric trench structure 505. It also makes ohmic contact to the mesa surfaces adjacent to trench 501. - Disposed over the top of the
termination trench 503 and the right portion of theasymmetric trench 505 is adielectric layer 535, which electrically shields thefield plate 5703.Conductive layer 590 may extend overlayer 535. -
FIGS. 6a, 6b, 6c, and 6d depict the schematic cross sectional views of an asymmetric trench structure in different states of partial completion. -
FIG. 6a depicts a partially completed device with atrench 605 in a semiconductor wafer. The wafer comprises a heavily dopedsubstrate 60 and a less heavily dopedepitaxial layer 65. In this exemplary device, the semiconductor is silicon, and the dopant for both the substrate and the epitaxial layer is n-type, such as phosphorous. Thelayer 630, which indevice 600 is silicon dioxide, covers thechip surface 650 and the two opposite trench sidewalls 622 andtrench bottom 627. The trench bottom has rounded corners. Thelayer 630 may be chemically deposited or thermally grown. The thickness of this layer is dictated by the operating conduction of the finished device, especially the maximum reverse bias voltage. The wafer top and the inside of the trench are coated with aconductive material 670, which in thisexemplary device 600 is doped polysilicon. -
FIG. 6b depicts thedevice 600 at a later stage of fabrication. Here the polysilicon is etched from the top of the wafer. Afterwards a portion ofsilicon dioxide layer 630 is removed to expose thechip surface 650. -
FIG. 6c depicts the asymmetric trench structure at yet a later stage of fabrication. At this stage, the silicon dioxide on one sidewall of the trench is etched down to adepth 680. The etchant used in the removing process is chosen to have good etching selectivity with respect to silicon, so the single crystal silicon layer mesa and the polysilicon in the trench are preserved. Thesilicon dioxide 630 r on the opposite sidewall is protected from etchant by a patterned photo resistlayer 635. - A termination trench may be fabricated in the
device 600 concurrently with theasymmetric trench 605 by extending the photo resistpattern 635 to cover the silicon oxide on both sidewalls of a trench such as one depicted inFIG. 6 so the silicon dioxide inside the trench on both sidewalls remains un-etched. An active trench may also be fabricated in thedevice 600 concurrently with the asymmetric trench 606 and a termination trench by uncovering the silicon dioxide on both sidewalls of the intended active trench and etching to thesame depth 680. -
FIG. 6d also depicts agate dielectric film 640, which lines the upper portion of the trench sidewall from whichsilicon dioxide 630 was previously removed in a process step as depicted inFIG. 6c . In this exemplary device, the gate dielectric film also comprises silicon dioxide. Other gate dielectric material such as silicon nitride may be used in other implementations of this invention. - Between the
gate dielectric film 640 and thefield plate 670 is thegate electrode 660, which comprises a conductive material. In thisexemplary device 600, the material comprises doped polysilicon. Other conductive material such as refractory metals may also be used as the gate electrode. -
FIG. 6d also depicts aconductive layer 690, which covers and makes ohmic contact to thegate electrode 660 and thefield plate 670. Theconductive layer 690 also makes ohmic contact to thetop surface 650 of the mesa adjacent to the trench in theepi layer 65. - In the
device 600, the top portion of theepi layer 655 may be doped with a dopant of the opposite polarity to that in thesubstrate 60 and the lower portion of theepitaxial layer 65. On such dopant is boron. In theexemplary device 600, which is a MOS gate controlled rectifier, the doped region comprises the body region 67 in which conductive channel forms when the rectifier is proper biased. If Schottky diode is part ofdevice 600, that portion of the epilayer is shielded from boron doping. - Over the right side of the trench structure 606 where the
silicon dioxide 630 remains un-etched, there is a layer ofdielectric material 631. The edge of thedielectric material 631 buts against the edge of theconductive layer 690 so the mesa top to the right of thetrench 605 is not in contact with theconductive layer 690.Dielectric material 631 is also disposed over the termination trench fabricated concurrently with the asymmetric trench ofdevice 600. - The
conductive layer 690 in this exemplary device comprises titanium silicide. Other metals such as platinum silicide may also be used if a Schottky diode is to be fabricated in thedevice 600. - Additional metal such as copper or
aluminum 695 may be added to the top of the conductive 690 in order to reduce the device total resistance along the current path. -
FIG. 1 is a portion of an actual device layout andFIGS. 2-5 are scanning electron micrographs of silicon wafers in which devices of layout inFIG. 1 are implemented.FIGS. 6a-6d , however, are computer generated graphics and the elements in them are not drawn to actual proportion for the purpose of clarity in illustration.
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1. A semiconductor chip having an asymmetric trench structure, comprising:
a first trench having semiconductor sidewalls;
a second trench disposed inside the first trench and having dielectric sidewalls and filled with a first conductive material;
the first trench and the second trench being symmetrical with respect to an imaginary plane that runs along the middle of the trenches in parallel to the sidewalls; and
a third trench disposed in the dielectric sidewall and filled with a second conductive material; and;
a conductive film disposed over the third trench and partially over the first trench and the second trench, shorting the first conductive material to the second conductive material.
2. The semiconductor chip of claim 1 , in which a second metal layer comprising aluminum covers the conductive film.
3. A semiconductor chip, comprising:
a chip surface of epitaxial semiconductor material;
a first trench extending from the chip surface into the epitaxial material with two parallel sidewalls perpendicular to the chip surface;
a dielectric liner disposed on the sidewalls;
a second trench disposed inside the first trench, symmetrical with respect to an imaginary center plane that runs along the middle of the first trench and the second trench and having a length coextensive with the first trench, the second trench filled with a conductive material;
a third trench disposed only in the dielectric liner of one sidewall of the first trench having a length coextensive with the first trench and the second trench, and filled with a conductive material;
a fourth trench disposed adjacent to the first trench, separated by a mesa region, the fourth trench extending from the chip surface into the epitaxial material, with two sidewalls of epitaxial semiconductor material and dielectric material lining the sidewalls;
a fifth trench and a sixth trench, each similar to the third trench, disposed in the dielectric material of a sidewall of the fourth trench, symmetrical with respect to an imaginary plane that runs along the middle of the fourth trench;
the fifth trench and the sixth trench having equal length coextensive with the fourth trench.
4. The semiconductor chip of claim 3 , in which the thickness of the dielectric material between a sidewall and the third trench is thinner than the thickness of the dielectric material between an opposite sidewall and the second trench.
5. The semiconductor chip of claim 3 , further comprising a seventh trench disposed adjacent to the first trench, separated by a mesa region, extending from the chip surface into the epitaxial material, with two sidewalls of epitaxial semiconductor material and dielectric material lining the sidewalls, free of additional trenches in the dielectric material liner.
6. The semiconductor chip of claim 3 , in which the first trench is disposed between at least one termination trench and at least one active trench.
7. The semiconductor chip of claim 6 , in which the at least one active trench comprises a plurality of active trenches of equal width and length.
8. The semiconductor chip of claim 7 , in which the termination trench is wider than the at least one active trench.
9. The semiconductor chip of claim 8 , in which the active trenches are disposed in an area enclosed by the termination trench.
10. The semiconductor chip of claim 9 , in which each active trench has a field plate element connected electrically to a first metal layer.
11. The semiconductor chip of claim 10 , in which each termination trench has a field plate element isolated electrically from the first metal layer.
12. The semiconductor chip of claim 11 , in which each active trench has a gate electrode element connected electrically to a second metal layer.
13. The semiconductor chip of claim 2 , further comprising a conductive channel with a bias voltage applied to the conductive material in the third trench.
14. The semiconductor chip of claim 2 , in which the aspect ratio of the first trench is not less than 1.5.
15. The semiconductor chip of claim 2 , in which the aspect ratio of the first trench is not less than 1.7.
16. The semiconductor chip of claim 12 being a rectifier device.
17. The semiconductor chip of claim 16 , in which the first metal layer and the second metal layer are the same metal layer.
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