SILICON CARBIDE MOS SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

• US 20090236612A1
• Filed: 03/24/2009
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Electric Device Technology Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Shun-ichi, Gotoh, Masahide, Yonezawa, Yoshiyuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,041,006 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/77
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/046 using ion implantation
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/0623 Buried supplementary region, e.g. buried guard ring multi-RESURF H01L29/0634
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/086 Impurity concentration or distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/0878 Impurity concentration or distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/1608 Silicon carbide
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/4236 within a trench, e.g. trench gate electrode, groove gate electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/42368 the thickness being non-uniform
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/6606 the devices being controllable only by variation of the electric current supplied or the electric potential applied, to one or more of the electrodes carrying the current to be rectified, amplified, oscillated or switched, e.g. two-terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/66068 the devices being controllable only by the electric current supplied or the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched, e.g. three-terminal devices
• 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 29/8613 Mesa PN junction diodes

Abstract

A silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device is disclosed which suppresses degradation of efficiency percentage yield with respect to a breakdown voltage even when a surface region with a high impurity concentration is formed by ion implantation with such a high dose as required for attaining a good ohmic contact. The device has a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate, a voltage blocking layer of a first conductivity type formed on the substrate, a body region of a second conductivity type formed on the voltage blocking layer, a body contact region of the second conductivity type formed in a surface region of the body region by selective ion implantation, a surface of the body contact region having such a high impurity concentration as to impart an ohmic contact, a source contact region of the first conductivity type formed in a surface region of the body region by selective ion implantation, a surface of the source contact region having such a high impurity concentration as to impart an ohmic contact, and a source extension region with an impurity concentration lower than that in the source contact region under the source contact region at a region deeper than a tail part of a bottom region of the source contact region by selective ion implantation, the source extension region having an impurity concentration less than 3×10¹⁹ cm⁻³.

Claims

1. A silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device comprising:

a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate;

a voltage blocking layer of a first conductivity type on a principal plane of the substrate;

a body region of a second conductivity type on the voltage blocking layer;

a body contact region in a surface region of the body region, the body contact region having impurity ions implanted therein and being of the second conductivity;

a source contact region in a surface region of the body region, the source contact region having impurity ions implanted therein and being of the first conductivity type;

an electrode contacting the body contact region and the source contact region, wherein the surface impurity concentration of the body contact region and that of the source contact region are sufficient to cause an ohmic contact with the electrode ; and

a source extension region under the source contact region at a region deeper than a tail part of the doping in a bottom region of the source contact region, the source extension region having impurity ions implanted therein with an impurity concentration of less than 3×

10¹⁹ cm<sup>−

3</sup> and lower than that in the source contact region.

2. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein an impurity concentration and a thickness of the body contact region are either

such that a depletion layer extending from an interface between the voltage blocking layer and the body region, reaches an avalanche breakdown voltage when a reverse bias voltage is applied to a pn junction between the voltage blocking layer and the body region before the depletion layer comes in contact with a defect region generated by implantation damage in the tail part at the bottom region of the body contact region, or

such that the depletion layer undergoes punch-through by touching the source extension region before the depletion layer comes in contact with a defect region generated by implantation damage in the tail part at the bottom region of the body contact region.

3. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the impurity concentration of the source extension region is not greater than 5×

10¹⁸ cm<sup>−

3</sup>

4. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, further comprising a trench formed from a top surface of the source contact region and passing through the source contact region, the source extension region, and the body region, and a gate electrode embedded in the trench on an internal surface thereof via an insulation film.

5. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the type of ions implanted in the source extension region has a mass ratio to silicon smaller than that of the type of ions implanted in the source contact region.

6. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the mass number of the type of ions implanted in the source extension region is 18 or less.

7. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the first conductivity type is an n-type, and the type of ions implanted in the source contact region is mainly phosphorus and the type of ions implanted in the source extension region is mainly nitrogen.

8. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the first conductivity type is a p-type, and the type of ions implanted in the source contact region is mainly aluminum and the type of ions implanted in the source extension region is mainly boron.

9. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the crystal form of the silicon carbide semiconductor is the hexagonal crystal form.

10. The silicon carbide MOS semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein a major principal plane of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate is a {0001} plane.