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Process for producing a semiconductor device

US4348802A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 11, 1980
Grant dateSep 14, 1982
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Expiry dateApr 11, 2000

Classification

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

Abstract

In a process for producing a semiconductor device, particularly an MIS structure semiconductor device, an electrode, which is in ohmic contact with the semiconductor substrate, is usually formed on the surface which is opposite to the surface having MIS FETs. However, in a recently developed process, the electrode mentioned above is formed on the semiconductor substrate surface on which the MIS FETs are formed, and the electrode is in ohmic contact with the substrate through a short-circuit of a PN junction formed on such semiconductor substrate surface. However, a so formed electrode is liable to break. In the present invention, wherein a masking layer covers the substrate-contact region during the production of the MIS FETs, the electrode mentioned above is in an ohmic contact with the electrode not through the PN junction and the problem of breaking occurs seldom.

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