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Method of fabricating power rectifier device having a laterally graded P-N junction for a channel region

US6624030B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 19, 2000
Grant dateSep 23, 2003
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Expiry dateDec 19, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10D30/66
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A vertical semiconductor rectifier device includes a semiconductor substrate of first conductivity type and having a plurality of gates insulatively formed on a first major surface and a plurality of source/drain regions of the first conductivity type formed in surface regions of second conductivity type in the first major surface adjacent to the gates. A plurality of channels of the second conductivity type each abuts a source/drain region and extends under a gate, each channel being laterally graded with a sloped P-N junction separating the channel region from the substrate of first conductivity type. In fabricating the vertical semiconductor rectifier device, a partial ion mask is formed on the surface of the semiconductor with the mask having a sloped surface which varies the path length of ions through the mask to form laterally-graded channel regions.

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