High voltage transistor having edge termination utilizing trench technology
First Claim
1. A high voltage transistor structure including at least one transistor having at least two doped regions formed in a substrate, and a gate electrode, and comprising:
- at least a first field ring and a second field ring of similar width and depth as the first field ring and spaced apart from the first field ring, both field rings being formed in the substrate and both laterally surrounding the transistor;
a first insulated trench formed in the substrate in the space between the first and second field rings, the first insulated trench laterally surrounding the transistor;
a deep body region formed in the substrate; and
a gate electrode formed in a gate trench in the substrate;
wherein a depth and doping level of the first and second field rings are the same as that of the deep body region, and the depth and width of the first insulated trench are the same as that of the gate trench.
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Abstract
For a vertical DMOS power transistor or a high voltage bipolar transistor, an edge termination at the perimeter of the die surrounding the active transistor cells includes multiple spaced apart field rings. A trench is located between each adjacent pair of field rings and is insulated either by oxide formed on the sidewalls thereof or by an oxide filling. The insulated trenches allow the field rings to be very closely spaced together. Advantageously the trenches may be formed in the same process steps as are the trenched gate electrodes of the active portion of the transistor. This structure eliminates the necessity for fabricating thick field oxide underlying a conventional field plate termination, and hence allows fabrication of a transistor without the need for a field plate termination, and in which the multiple field rings are suitable for a transistor device having a breakdown voltage in the range of 20 to 150 volts. The trenches advantageously eliminate the process sensitivity of using multi field ring terminations with low resistivity semiconductor material.
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1. A high voltage transistor structure including at least one transistor having at least two doped regions formed in a substrate, and a gate electrode, and comprising:
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at least a first field ring and a second field ring of similar width and depth as the first field ring and spaced apart from the first field ring, both field rings being formed in the substrate and both laterally surrounding the transistor; a first insulated trench formed in the substrate in the space between the first and second field rings, the first insulated trench laterally surrounding the transistor; a deep body region formed in the substrate; and a gate electrode formed in a gate trench in the substrate; wherein a depth and doping level of the first and second field rings are the same as that of the deep body region, and the depth and width of the first insulated trench are the same as that of the gate trench. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A high voltage transistor structure including at least one transistor having at least two doped regions formed in a substrate, and a gate electrode, and comprising:
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at least a first field ring and a second field ring spaced apart from the first field ring, both field rings being formed in the substrate and both laterally surrounding the transistor; and an insulated trench formed in the substrate in the space between the first and second field rings, the insulated trench laterally surrounding the transistor; wherein the transistor is a field effect transistor and also includes a deep body region, and said gate electrode of the transistor is formed in a gate trench, wherein the depth and doping level of the field rings are the same as that of the deep body region, and the depth and width of the insulated trench are the same as that of the gate trench.
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