Semiconductor device

• US 20050247974A1
• Filed: 05/31/2005
• Published: 11/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Akio Takano, Hirobumi Matsuki, Kawano Takahiro
• Original Assignee: Akio Takano, Hirobumi Matsuki, Kawano Takahiro
• Inventors: Takano, Akio, Kawano, Takahiro, Matsuki, Hirobumi
• Application Number:
  US11/140,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20050247974A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/330
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/04042 Bonding areas specifically adapted for wire connectors, e.g. wirebond pads
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/05552 in top view
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/05599 Material
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/05624 Aluminium [Al] as principal constituent
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/0603 Bonding areas having different sizes, e.g. different heights or widths
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/32245 the item being metallic
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/37124 Aluminium [Al] as principal constituent
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/37147 Copper [Cu] as principal constituent
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/40091 Arched
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/40245 the item being metallic
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/40247 Connecting the strap to a bond pad of the item
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/45099 Material
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48247 connecting the wire to a bond pad of the item
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48463 the connecting portion on the bonding area of the semiconductor or solid-state body being a ball bond
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48465 the other connecting portion not on the bonding area being a wedge bond, i.e. ball-to-wedge, regular stitch
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/4911 the connectors being bonded to at least one common bonding area, e.g. daisy chain
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/73221 Strap and wire connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/73265 Layer and wire connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/84205 Ultrasonic bonding
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/4824 Pads with extended contours, e.g. grid structure, branch structure, finger structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/49562 : for devices being provided for in H01L29/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/05 : of an individual bonding area
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/06 : of a plurality of bonding areas
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/37 : of an individual strap connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/40 : of an individual strap connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/48 : of an individual wire connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/49 : of a plurality of wire connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/84 : using a strap connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/41741 : for vertical or pseudo-vertical devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/41766 : with at least part of the source or drain electrode having contact below the semiconductor surface, e.g. the source or drain electrode formed at least partially in a groove or with inclusions of conductor inside the semiconductor H01L29/41733 - H01L29/41758 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/4941 : with a barrier layer between the silicon and the metal or metal silicide upper layer, e.g. Silicide/TiN/Polysilicon
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/7802 : Vertical DMOS transistors, i.e. VDMOS transistors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/7813 : with trench gate electrode, e.g. UMOS transistors trench gate electrodes per se H01L29/4236
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 : Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00014 : the subject-matter covered by the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group, being disclosed without further technical details
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/1305 : Bipolar Junction Transistor [BJT]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/13055 : Insulated gate bipolar transistor [IGBT]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/1306 : Field-effect transistor [FET]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/13091 : Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor [MOSFET]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/15747 : Copper [Cu] as principal constituent

Abstract

A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate having first and second surfaces opposing each other, the substrate including a plurality of cells sharing a common drain region, each of the cells having source and gate regions, a surface source electrode connected to the source region of each of the cells and provided on the first surface, a strap member coupled with the surface source electrode by ultrasonic waves, a gate polysilicon wiring layer connecting the gate region of each of the cells and having a silicide layer in at least a portion of a surface thereof, a surface gate electrode connected to the gate polysilicon wiring layer and provided on the first surface, and a drain electrode provided on the second surface and shared by the cells.

Claims

1. A semiconductor device comprising:

a semiconductor substrate having first and second surfaces opposing each other, the substrate including a plurality of cells sharing a common drain region, each of the cells having source and gate regions;

a surface source electrode connected to the source region of each of the cells and provided on the first surface;

a strap member coupled with the surface source electrode by ultrasonic waves;

a gate polysilicon wiring layer connecting the gate region of each of the cells and having a silicide layer in at least a portion of a surface thereof;

a surface gate electrode connected to the gate polysilicon wiring layer and provided on the first surface; and

a drain electrode provided on the second surface and shared by the cells.

2-7. -7. (canceled)