A thin film transistor (TFT) apparatus is disclosed, where the apparatus includes a gate comprising metal, a source and a drain, a semiconductor body, and two or more dielectric structures between the gate and the semiconductor body. In an example, the two or more dielectric structures may include at least a first dielectric structure having a first bandgap and a second dielectric structure having a second bandgap. The first bandgap may be different from the second bandgap. The TFT apparatus may be a back-gated TFT apparatus where the source is at least in part coplanar with the drain, and the gate is non-coplanar with the source and the drain.

A semiconductor structure including a substrate, a first well, a second well, a first doped region, a second doped region, a gate electrode, an insulating layer, a field plate, and a tunable circuit is provided. The first and second wells are formed on the substrate. The first doped region is formed in the first well. The second doped region is formed in the second well. The gate electrode is disposed over the substrate. The gate electrode, the first doped region, and the second doped region constitute a transistor. The insulating layer is disposed on the substrate and overlaps the gate electrode. The field plate overlaps the insulating layer and the gate electrode. The tunable circuit provides either a first short-circuit path between the field plate and the gate electrode, or a second short-circuit path between the field plate and the first doped region.

A semiconductor device may include a first device on a first portion of a substrate, a second device on a second portion of the substrate, and a third device on a third portion of the substrate. The third device may include an oxide layer that is formed from an oxide layer that is a sacrificial oxide layer for the first device and the second device. The third device may include a gate provided on the oxide layer, a set of spacers provided on opposite sides of the gate, and a source region provided in the third portion of the substrate on one side of the gate. The third device may include a drain region provided in the third portion of the substrate on another side of the gate, and a protective oxide layer provided on a portion of the gate and a portion of the drain region.

A semiconductor device includes trench portions arrayed in a first direction on an upper surface side of a semiconductor substrate, a first conductivity type lower surface region provided in a part of a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second conductivity type base region provided on the upper surface side, a first conductivity type first region disposed between the base region and the lower surface region, a first conductivity type upper surface region provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a second conductivity type bottom region disposed continuously in the first direction to be in contact with bottom portions of the trench portions. In a cross section along the first direction and perpendicular to the upper and lower surfaces and passing through the lower surface region, one end portion of the bottom region in the first direction locates directly above the lower surface region.

A semiconductor device may include a first device on a first portion of a substrate, a second device on a second portion of the substrate, and a third device on a third portion of the substrate. The third device may include an oxide layer that is formed from an oxide layer that is a sacrificial oxide layer for the first device and the second device. The third device may include a gate provided on the oxide layer, a set of spacers provided on opposite sides of the gate, and a source region provided in the third portion of the substrate on one side of the gate. The third device may include a drain region provided in the third portion of the substrate on another side of the gate, and a protective oxide layer provided on a portion of the gate and a portion of the drain region.

A method for making a semiconductor device includes forming a ROX layer on a substrate and a patterned silicon oxynitride layer on the patterned ROX layer; conformally forming a dielectric oxide layer to cover the substrate, the patterned silicon oxynitride layer, and the patterned ROX layer; and fully oxidizing the patterned silicon oxynitride layer to form a fully oxidized gate oxide layer on the substrate.

A semiconductor device includes gate trenches formed in a SiC substrate and extending lengthwise in parallel in a first direction. A trench interval which defines a space between adjacent gate trenches extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Source regions of a first conductivity type formed in the SiC substrate occupy a first part of the space between adjacent gate trenches. Body regions of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type formed in the SiC substrate and below the source regions occupy a second part of the space between adjacent gate trenches. Body contact regions of the second conductivity type formed in the SiC substrate occupy a third part of the space between adjacent gate trenches. Shielding regions of the second conductivity type formed deeper in the SiC substrate than the body regions adjoin a bottom of at least some of the gate trenches.

A semiconductor device includes a protected element and a connection section. The protected element is configured including a diode having an anode region and a cathode region. The diode is arranged on an active layer of a substrate including the active layer formed over a conductive substrate-support with an insulation layer interposed therebetween. The connection section electrically connects the cathode region of the protected element to the substrate-support.

The present invention relates to an LDMOS device and a method for preparing same. When a field plate hole is formed by etching an interlayer dielectric layer, the etching of the field plate hole is stopped on a blocking layer by means of providing the blocking layer between a semiconductor base and the interlayer dielectric layer. Since the blocking layer is provided with at least one layer of an etch stop layer, and steps are formed on the surface of the blocking layer, at least two levels of formed hole field plates are distributed in a step shape, and lower ends of the first level of hole field plates to the nth level of hole field plates are gradually further away from the drift area in the direction from a gate structure to a drain area.

A semiconductor device includes an edge terminal structure portion provided between the active portion and an end portion of the semiconductor substrate on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, in which the edge terminal structure portion has a first high concentration region of the first conductivity type which has a donor concentration higher than a doping concentration of the bulk donor in a region between the upper surface and a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, an upper surface of the first high concentration region is located on an upper surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and a lower surface of the first high concentration region is located on a lower surface side of the semiconductor substrate.