Wide band gap semiconductor transverse super junction double-diffusion transistor with multi-ring electric field modulation substrate
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of semiconductor power devices, in particular to a transverse super-junction double-diffusion metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor.
Background
The Lateral Double-diffused metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (LDMOS) has the advantages of easy integration, good thermal stability, better frequency stability, low power consumption, multi-photon conduction, small power drive, high switching speed and the like, and is the core of an intelligent power circuit and a high-voltage device. However, due to the limitations of the first two generations of semiconductor materials represented by Si and GaAs, the third generation of wide bandgap semiconductor materials has been rapidly developed because of their excellent properties. The wide-bandgap semiconductor material has the characteristics of large forbidden bandwidth, high electron drift saturation velocity, small dielectric constant and good conductivity, has excellent properties and potential huge prospects in the field of power devices, and is very suitable for manufacturing radiation-resistant, high-frequency, high-power and high-density integrated semiconductor devices. Therefore, the performance of the wide bandgap power semiconductor device is significantly improved compared with the former two generations of semiconductor devices.
One of the most critical technologies for realizing the PIC (power integrated circuit) of the power integrated circuit is to require that the LDMOS (lateral-diffused MOSFET) must have low on-resistance to reduce the power loss of the PIC integrated circuit, while the 2.5 power relation between the off-state breakdown voltage and the on-state on-resistance of the MOS device limits the application range of the MOS device with high power, and the super junction structure relieves the contradiction to 1.33 power, so that applying the super junction technology to the LDMOS to form the SJ-LDMOS is an effective way to realize the PIC with ultra-low power loss. However, the super junction applied to the LDMOS has three problems: 1) the N-channel LDMOS has a P-type substrate which assists in depleting an N-type region of a super junction, so that a substrate-assisted depletion (SAD) problem is caused; 2) the traditional SJ-LDMOS only forms electric field modulation between an N region and a P region of a super junction, but does not have electric field modulation on the surface; 3) the SJ-LDMOS eliminating the substrate-assisted depletion can completely deplete the drift region, but is affected by the longitudinal electric field, so that the surface electric field is not uniformly distributed. In addition, as the length of the drift region of the device is increased, the breakdown voltage of the SJ-LDMOS device is mainly limited by the internal longitudinal voltage withstanding capability, namely the breakdown voltage of the SJ-LDMOS device gradually tends to be saturated along with the increase of the length of the drift region, namely the voltage saturation effect of the transverse super-junction power device.
In order to break the saturation effect of breakdown voltage, the early proposed LDMOS with the rebufl structure redistributes the electric field of the lateral high-voltage device by embedding a layer of N + -Floating layer in the body, breaking through the traditional electric field distribution form that the drain terminal is a high electric field and the source terminal is a low electric field, the high electric field of the high electric field region of the drain terminal is reduced by the equipotential effect of the N + -Floating layer, the breakdown voltage is increased when the silicon reaches its critical breakdown electric field, and the substrate of the device bears almost all the longitudinal withstand voltage.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a wide band gap semiconductor transverse super-junction double-diffusion transistor with a multi-ring electric field modulation substrate, which not only breaks through the problem of breakdown voltage saturation of the transverse double-diffusion transistor caused by limited longitudinal withstand voltage, but also can achieve the effect of optimizing a surface transverse electric field and an internal longitudinal electric field at the same time, can eliminate the problem of substrate auxiliary depletion of a super junction, and greatly improves the breakdown voltage of a device.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
the wide band gap semiconductor lateral super junction double-diffused transistor with the multi-ring electric field modulation substrate comprises:
a substrate of semiconductor material;
a base region formed on the surface of the substrate;
injecting a Super Junction (Super Junction) drift region formed by alternately arranging N columns and P columns on the surface of the substrate, wherein the Super Junction drift region is adjacent to the base region;
a source region formed on the surface of the base region;
a drain region formed on the surface of the super junction drift region;
it is characterized in that:
the material of the substrate is a wide band gap semiconductor material; the adjacent substrate area below the super junction drift region is set to be a multi-ring electric field modulation structure; the width (OA direction) of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure is equivalent to that of the super junction drift region, and the multi-ring electric field modulation structure takes one end close to the drain region as a center and expands towards one end close to the base region to form a plurality of rings;
each ring of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure is made of N-type or P-type doped wide-band gap semiconductor materials or dielectric materials; accordingly, adjacent rings are distinguished by any one or any combination of different materials, different doping types, different doping concentrations.
For example, the following three specific forms:
1. the multi-ring electric field modulation structure completely adopts wide-band gap semiconductor material
Each ring is made of N-type or P-type doped wide band gap semiconductor material; wherein the doping type and/or doping concentration of adjacent rings are different, i.e. (1) the doping type is different and the doping concentration is the same; (2) the doping type is the same but the doping concentration is different; (3) the doping types are different, and the doping concentrations are also different;
2. the multi-ring electric field modulation structure completely adopts dielectric materials, and the dielectric materials of adjacent rings are different.
3. Some rings of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure are made of wide-band-gap semiconductor materials, and some rings are made of dielectric materials, and can be distinguished by arranging the wide-band-gap semiconductor materials and the dielectric materials alternately, or still or simultaneously adopting the former two types of ways.
On the basis of the scheme, the invention further optimizes the following steps:
typical values for the substrate doping concentration of wide bandgap semiconductor materials are 1 x 1013cm-3~1×1015cm-3。
Typical doping concentration per ring in a multi-ring electric field modulation structure is 1 × 1014cm-3~1×1016cm-3。
The dielectric material is selected from silicon dioxide and hafnium oxide.
The proportion of the radial width (OB direction) of each ring in the multi-ring electric field modulation structure to the whole length of the super-junction drift region is adjusted according to the voltage-resistant requirement, the typical proportion value is 0.2-0.5, and the multi-ring electric field modulation structure does not exceed the whole length of the super-junction drift region.
The radial widths (OB direction) of the rings in the multi-ring electric field modulation structure are equal or the radial widths of the rings are different; the number of rings in the multi-ring electric field modulation structure is adjusted according to the withstand voltage requirement, and the typical value is 2-5.
The shape of the ring in the multi-ring electric field modulation structure is an arc ring or a step ring.
The shape of the ring in the multi-ring electric field modulation structure is a concentric ring.
For a device with the super-junction drift region thickness (OC direction) of 2 μm and the super-junction drift region length (OB direction) of 30 μm, when the breakdown voltage requirement is 500V, a concentric ring type multi-ring electric field modulation structure is adopted, multiple rings are doped at intervals of N/P, the number of the multiple rings is 2-5, the radial width (OB direction) of each ring accounts for 0.2-0.5 of the whole length of the super-junction drift region, and the multi-ring electric field modulation structure does not exceed the whole length of the super-junction drift region.
The wide band gap semiconductor material is gallium nitride, silicon carbide or diamond.
The technical scheme of the invention has the following beneficial effects:
the substrate area below the drift area of the SJ-LDMOS is set to be a multi-ring charge compensation structure, the longitudinal space charge area of the transverse super-junction double-diffusion metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor can be expanded, meanwhile, a new electric field peak can be introduced into the distribution of a surface transverse electric field and an in-body longitudinal electric field by the multi-ring structure, the problem of auxiliary substrate depletion of the transverse super-junction can be solved, and the surface transverse electric field and the in-body longitudinal electric field are simultaneously modulated by utilizing an electric field modulation effect, so that the surface transverse electric field and the in-body longitudinal electric field are simultaneously optimized.
The structure not only breaks through the breakdown voltage saturation problem of the transverse super-junction double-diffusion transistor caused by limited longitudinal withstand voltage, but also can eliminate the substrate-assisted depletion problem existing in the transverse super-junction, so that the surface transverse electric field and the internal longitudinal electric field are optimized simultaneously, and the breakdown voltage of the device is greatly improved.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a three-dimensional schematic diagram of a wide bandgap semiconductor lateral super junction double diffused transistor structure with a multi-ring electric field modulation substrate according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a sectional view along the OAC direction at the multi-ring charge compensation structure.
The reference numbers illustrate:
1-a wide bandgap semiconductor material substrate; 2-base region; a 3-source region; 4-a drain region; a 5, 6-super junction drift region; the individual rings of the 7, 8, 9, 10-polycyclic electric field modulation structure.
Detailed Description
Fig. 1 and 2 show a wide band gap semiconductor lateral super junction double diffused transistor with a multi-ring electric field modulation substrate:
the substrate 1 of wide band gap semiconductor material is doped with a concentration of the usual wide band gap semiconductor material, typically 1 x 1013cm-3~1×1015cm-3;
A base region 2 located on the surface of the wide band gap semiconductor substrate;
injecting N columns and P columns from the edge of the base region to the wide band gap semiconductor substrate, and alternately arranging to form Super Junction (Super Junction) drift regions 5 and 6;
a source region 3 positioned on the surface of the base region;
a drain region 4 positioned on the surface of the super junction drift region;
the multi-ring electric field modulation structure is positioned below the super junction drift region;
specifically, the method comprises the following steps:
each ring 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure can be N-type or P-type doped silicon material with typical doping concentration up to 1 × 1014cm-3~1×1016cm-3;
The individual rings 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure may also be a dielectric material such as silicon dioxide, hafnium oxide, etc.;
the ratio of the radial width (OB direction) of the rings of the respective rings 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure to the overall length of the drift region can be adjusted according to the withstand voltage requirement. The ratio of the width of a ring of a typical multi-ring electric field modulation structure to the overall length of the drift region is 0.2-0.5;
the radial widths (OB direction) of the rings and the rings in the respective rings 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure are either equal or unequal;
the number of rings of each ring 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure can be adjusted according to the requirement of voltage resistance;
the shape of each ring 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the multi-ring electric field modulation structure may be a regular pattern, such as concentric circular rings. And the ring can also be in an irregular pattern, such as a common arc-shaped ring, a step-shaped ring and the like.
The multi-ring charge compensation of the arranged substrate can expand the longitudinal space charge area of the transverse super-junction double-diffusion metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor, and simultaneously, the multi-ring structure can introduce new electric field peaks in the distribution of a surface transverse electric field and an in-vivo longitudinal electric field, so that the problem of auxiliary substrate depletion of the transverse super-junction can be solved, and the surface transverse electric field and the in-vivo longitudinal electric field are simultaneously modulated by utilizing an electric field modulation effect, so that the surface transverse electric field and the in-vivo longitudinal electric field are simultaneously optimized. The structure not only breaks through the breakdown voltage saturation problem of the transverse super-junction double-diffusion transistor caused by limited longitudinal withstand voltage, but also can eliminate the substrate auxiliary depletion problem existing in the transverse super-junction, so that the surface transverse electric field and the internal longitudinal electric field are optimized simultaneously, and the breakdown voltage of the device is greatly improved.
For a thin drift region (2 mu m) N-channel LDMOS, when the length of the drift region is 30 mu m, the breakdown voltage of a common LDMOS is only about 300V, but by adopting the structure of the invention, the breakdown voltage of the device can be improved to about 750V by utilizing the concentric ring structure with 10 mu m width and N/P/N type interval doping, and the breakdown voltage is improved by 150%.
For a thin drift region (2 mu m) N-channel LDMOS, when the length of the drift region is 60 mu m, the breakdown voltage of a common LDMOS is only about 400V, but by adopting the structure of the invention, the breakdown voltage of the device can be increased to 1500V by utilizing the concentric ring structure with 20 mu m width and N/P/N type interval doping, and the breakdown voltage is increased by 275%.
Of course, the LDMOS of the present invention may also be a P-channel LDMOS, and the structure thereof is equivalent to that of an N-channel LDMOS, which is not described herein again.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, many modifications and substitutions can be made without departing from the technical principle of the present invention, and these modifications and substitutions also fall into the protection scope of the present invention.