Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

• US 8,987,810 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2014
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: Inagawa, Hiroshi, Machida, Nobuo, Ooishi, Kentaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsai, H
• Application Number:
  US14/169,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20140145259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 417 Days
• Field of Search: 257328-345
• US Class Current: 257/328
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/02532 Silicon, silicon germanium, germanium
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/266 using masks H01L21/26586 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/76897 Formation of self-aligned vias or contact plugs, i.e. involving a lithographically uncritical step self-aligned silicidation on field effect transistors H01L29/665
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/0603 Bonding areas having different sizes, e.g. different heights or widths
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/0255 using diodes as protective elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/0629 in combination with diodes, or resistors, or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/088 the components being field-effect transistors with insulated gate
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/0611 for increasing or controlling the breakdown voltage of reverse biased devices H01L29/0661 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/0619 with a supplementary region doped oppositely to or in rectifying contact with the semiconductor containing or contacting region, e.g. guard rings with PN or Schottky junction
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/0696 of cellular field-effect devices, e.g. multicellular DMOS transistors or IGBTs
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/4232 with insulated gate
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/4236 within a trench, e.g. trench gate electrode, groove gate electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/4238 characterised by the surface lay-out
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/66727 with a step of recessing the source electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/66734 with a step of recessing the gate electrode, e.g. to form a trench gate electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/7804 the other device being a pn-junction diode
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/7808 the other device being a breakdown diode, e.g. Zener diode
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/7811 with an edge termination structure guard regions per se H01L29/0619; field plates per se H01L29/402
• 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 29/7827 Vertical transistors H01L29/7802, H01L29/78642 take precedence

Abstract

A semiconductor device has an FET of a trench-gate structure obtained by disposing a conductive layer, which will be a gate, in a trench extended in the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the upper surface of the trench-gate conductive layer is formed equal to or higher than the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The conductive layer of the trench gate is formed to have a substantially flat or concave upper surface and the upper surface is formed equal to or higher than the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. After etching of the semiconductor substrate to form the upper surface of the conductive layer of the trench gate, a channel region and a source region are formed by ion implantation so that the semiconductor device is free from occurrence of a source offset.

Claims

1. A semiconductor device including a transistor formation region of a semiconductor substrate and a peripheral region of the semiconductor substrate, comprising:

a first semiconductor layer of a first conductive type formed in the semiconductor substrate;

a second semiconductor layer of a second conductive type opposite to the first conductive type formed in the first semiconductor layer of the transistor formation region of the semiconductor substrate;

a third semiconductor layer of the first conductive type formed in the second semiconductor layer;

a first trench formed in the first, second and third semiconductor layers such that a bottom of the first trench is located in the first semiconductor layer;

a gate electrode formed inside the first trench;

a contact hole formed in the second and third semiconductor layers such that a bottom of the contact hole is located in the second semiconductor layer;

a source wiring formed in the contact hole and connected to the second and third semiconductor layers;

a field insulating film formed over the peripheral region of the semiconductor substrate;

a well region of the second conductive type formed in the peripheral region of the semiconductor substrate;

a second trench formed in the well region and the first semiconductor layer such that a bottom of the second trench is located in the first semiconductor layer; and

a gate wiring formed inside the second trench,

wherein the well region is connected to the second semiconductor layer,

wherein at least a part of the well region is formed under the field insulating film, and

wherein the well region contacts the second trench.

2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the first trench and the second trench are connected to each other.

3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein a height of the bottom of the well region is different from a height of the bottom of the second semiconductor layer.

4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein an impurity concentration of the well region is lower than an impurity concentration of the second semiconductor layer.

5. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein a height of the bottom of the well region is lower than a height of the bottom of the second semiconductor layer.

6. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the first semiconductor region serves as a drain region of the transistor,

wherein the second semiconductor region serves as a channel region of the transistor, and

wherein the third semiconductor region serves as a source region of the transistor.