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Semiconductor device with double moat and double channel stoppers

US4298881A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 7, 1980
Grant dateNov 3, 1981
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Expiry dateApr 7, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L2924/0002
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

This invention concerns a so-called double-moat uni-surface type semiconductor device in which two concentric moats are provided in one main surface of the substrate and the edges of the two pn-junctions for blocking main circuit voltages applied to the device are exposed in the surfaces of the moats. Semiconductor layers having high impurity concentrations and serving as channel stoppers are formed on the semiconductor layers exposed in the one main surface of the substrate, contiguous to the moats and spaced apart from the pn-junctions, each high impurity concentration layer having the same conductivity type as the semiconductor layer on which it is formed. The moats are filled with surface passivating material.

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