Integrated circuit having vertical compensation component

US8502281B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Infineon Technologies Austria AG · AT

Inventors

• Armin Willmeroth · Friedberg, DE
• Holger Kapels · Holzkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2011
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 20, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10D62/393

Abstract

An integrated circuit and component is disclosed. In one embodiment, the component is a compensation component, configuring the compensation regions in the drift zone in V-shaped fashion in order to achieve a convergence of the space charge zones from the upper to the lower end of the compensation regions is disclosed.