The disclosure relates to a semiconductor die with a transistor device, having a source region, a drain region, a body region including a channel region, a gate region, which includes a gate electrode, next to the channel region, for controlling a channel formation, a drift region between the channel region and the drain region, and a field electrode region with a field electrode formed in a field electrode trench, which extends into the drift region, wherein the channel region extends laterally and is aligned vertically with the gate region, and wherein at least a portion of the channel region is arranged vertically above the field electrode region.

The disclosure relates to a semiconductor die, including a vertical power transistor device, a pull-down transistor device, and a capacitor. The pull-down transistor device is connected between a gate electrode of the vertical power transistor device and a ground terminal and connects the gate electrode to the ground terminal in a conducting state. The capacitor is connected between one of the load terminals of the vertical power transistor device and the control terminal of the pull-down transistor device and capacitively couples the one load terminal to the control terminal.

A semiconductor device includes a first nitride-based semiconductor layer, a second nitride-based semiconductor layer, a pair of first electrodes, a second electrode, a doped nitride-based semiconductor layer, and a pair of gate electrodes. The second nitride-based semiconductor layer is disposed on the first nitride-based semiconductor layer. The first and second nitride-based semiconductor layers collectively have an active portion and an electrically isolating portion that is non-semi-conducting and surrounds the active portion to form an interface therebetween. The first electrodes are disposed over the second nitride-based semiconductor layer. The second electrode are disposed over the second nitride-based semiconductor layer and between the first electrodes. The doped nitride-based semiconductor layer is disposed over the second nitride-based semiconductor layer and between the first electrodes and surrounding the second electrode. The gate electrodes are disposed over the doped nitride-based semiconductor layer and located at opposite sides of the second electrode.

A switching device according to the present invention is a switching device for switching a load by on-off control of voltage, and includes an SiC semiconductor layer where a current path is formed by on-control of the voltage, a first electrode arranged to be in contact with the SiC semiconductor layer, and a second electrode arranged to be in contact with the SiC semiconductor layer for conducting with the first electrode due to the formation of the current path, while the first electrode has a variable resistance portion made of a material whose resistance value increases under a prescribed high-temperature condition for limiting current density of overcurrent to not more than a prescribed value when the overcurrent flows to the current path.

A nanowire transistor and a manufacture method thereof are provided. The nanowire transistor includes a semiconductor wire, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The semiconductor wire includes a first semiconductor material and includes a source region, a drain region, and a channel region, along an axial direction of the semiconductor wire, the channel region is between the source region and the drain region; the semiconductor layer includes a second semiconductor material and covers the channel region of the semiconductor wire; the source electrode is in the source region of the semiconductor wire and is in direct contact with the source region of the semiconductor wire, and the drain electrode is in the drain region of the semiconductor wire and is in direct contact with the drain region of the semiconductor wire.

A semiconductor apparatus capable of reducing the leakage current in the reverse direction, and keeping characteristics thereof, even when using n type semiconductor (gallium oxide, for example) or the like having a low-loss at a high voltage and having much higher dielectric breakdown electric field strength than SiC is provided. A semiconductor apparatus includes a crystalline oxide semiconductor having a corundum structure as a main component, and an electric field shield layer and a gate electrode that are respectively laminated directly or through other layers on the n type semiconductor layer, wherein the electric field shield layer includes a p type oxide semiconductor, and is embedded in the n type semiconductor layer deeper than the gate electrode.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first surface and second surface opposite to the first surface in a vertical direction, and a plurality of transistor cells at least partly integrated in the semiconductor body. Each transistor cell includes at least two source regions, first and second gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in a first horizontal direction and arranged adjacent to and dielectrically insulated from a continuous body region, a drift region separated from the at least two source regions by the body region, and at least three contact plugs extending from the body region towards a source electrode in the vertical direction. The at least three contact plugs are arranged successively between the first and second gate electrodes. Only the two outermost contact plugs that are arranged closest to the first and second gate electrodes, respectively, directly adjoin at least one of the source regions.

Described herein are III-N (e.g. GaN) devices having a stepped cap layer over the channel of the device, for which the III-N material is orientated in an N-polar orientation.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor stacking portion formed on the substrate, a silicon nitride passivation film covering the surface of the semiconductor stacking portion, and oxygen atoms existing at an interface between the silicon nitride passivation film and the semiconductor stacking portion. The semiconductor stacking portion includes a plurality of nitride semiconductor layers. The interfacial oxygen content at the passivation film and stacking portion interface is 0.6×10.sup.15 oxygen atoms/cm.sup.2 or less.

There is provided a semiconductor device capable of improving the performance and reliability of a device. The semiconductor device includes comprising a gate structure including a gate electrode and a gate capping pattern on an upper surface of the gate electrode; a source/drain pattern on at least one side of the gate structure; and a source/drain contact on and connected with an upper surface of the source/drain pattern, the source/drain contact extending along a sidewall of the gate electrode, wherein an upper surface of the source/drain contact includes a convex curved surface.