The thermal impedance of p-i-n diodes integrated on semiconductor-on-insulator substrates can be reduced with thermally conducting vias that shunt heat across thermal barriers such as, e.g., the thick top oxide cladding often encapsulating the p-i-n diode. In various embodiments, one or more thermally conducting vias extend from a top surface of the intrinsic diode layer to a metal structure connected to the doped top layer of the diode, and/or from that metal structure down to at least the semiconductor device layer of the substrate.

A high-frequency absorption diode chip and a making method. The chip comprises a substrate; an epitaxial layer; a base region window; the base region window comprises a pressure point region and a partial pressure region; the epitaxial layer separates the pressure point region from the partial pressure region; a first ion diffusion layer is formed on the base region window; an emitting region window is provided on the first ion diffusion layer; a second ion diffusion layer is formed on the emitting region window; the upper surfaces of the first ion diffusion layer and the second ion diffusion layer in the pressure point region both are provided with a passivation layer; the upper surface of the first ion diffusion layer in the partial pressure region is provided with an oxide layer; both the oxide layer and the passivation layer extend to the upper surface of the epitaxial layer.

A method for manufacturing an array substrate, an array substrate, and a fingerprint recognition device. The method includes: forming a plurality of polysilicon patterns on a substrate, the plurality of polysilicon patterns including a first polysilicon pattern for forming the PIN-type diode and a second polysilicon pattern for forming the transistor, each polysilicon pattern including a first sub-region, a second sub-region, and a third sub-region between the first sub-region and the second sub-region; using a first doping process to dope the first sub-region of the first polysilicon pattern and the first sub-region and the second sub-region of the second polysilicon pattern with one of P-type ions and N-type ions respectively; and using a second doping process to dope the second sub-region of the first polysilicon pattern with the other of P-type ions and N-type ions.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device from a semiconductor wafer in which a plurality of semiconductor chips are formed. The method includes a first process of forming an active region on a first main surface side of the semiconductor wafer and a second process of forming a first process control monitor (PCM) on a second main surface side of the semiconductor wafer. The method further includes before the second process, a third process of forming a second PCM on the first main surface side of the semiconductor wafer. The first PCM and the second PCM are formed at an area located at the same position in a plan view of the semiconductor wafer.

A semiconductor device includes a device doping region of an electrical device arrangement disposed in a semiconductor substrate. A portion of the device doping region has a vertical dimension of more than 500 nm and a doping concentration of greater than 1*10.sup.15 dopant atoms per cm.sup.3. The doping concentration of the portion of the device doping region varies by less than 20% from a maximum doping concentration in the device doping region.

To provide a semiconductor device having excellent conduction characteristics of a transistor portion and a diode portion. The semiconductor device having a transistor portion and a diode portion, the semiconductor device includes: a drift region of a first conductivity type provided on a semiconductor substrate, a first well region of a second conductivity type provided on an upper surface side of the semiconductor substrate, an anode region of the second conductivity provided on the upper surface side of the semiconductor substrate, in the diode portion, and a first high concentration region of a second conductivity type which is provided in contact with a first well region between the anode region and the first well region, and has a higher doping concentration than the anode region.

A new semiconductor rectifier structure. In general, a MOS-transistor-like structure is located above a JFET-like deeper structure. The present application teaches ways to combine and optimize these two structures in a merged device so that the resulting combined structure achieves both a low forward voltage and a high reverse breakdown voltage in a relatively small area. In one class of innovative implementations, an insulated (or partially insulated) trench is used to define a vertical channel in a body region along the sidewall of a trench, so that majority carriers from a source region (typically n+) can flow through the channel. An added pocket diffusion, of the same conductivity type as the body region (p-type in this example), provides an intermediate region around the bottom of the trench. This intermediate diffusion, and an additional deep region of the same conductivity type, define a deep JFET-like device which is in series with the MOS channel portion of the diode. This advantageously permits the MOS channel portion to be reasonably short, and to have a reasonably low threshold voltage, since the high-voltage withstand characteristics are defined by the deep JFET-like device.

An object of the present invention is to provide stable withstand voltage characteristics, reduce turn-off losses along with a reduction in leakage current when the device is off, improve controllability of turn-off operations, and improve blocking capability at turn-off. An N buffer layer includes a first buffer layer joined to an active layer and having one peak in impurity concentration, and a second buffer layer joined to the first buffer layer and an N.sup. drift layer, having at least one peak point in impurity concentration, and having a lower maximum impurity concentration than the first buffer layer. The impurity concentration at the peak point of the first buffer layer is higher than the impurity concentration of the N.sup. drift layer, and the impurity concentration of the second buffer layer is higher than the impurity concentration of the N.sup. drift layer in the entire area of the second buffer layer.

A method of fabricating an electronic device includes providing a III-V substrate having a hexagonal crystal structure and a normal to a growth surface characterized by a misorientation from the <0001> direction of between 0.15 and 0.65. The method also includes growing a first III-V epitaxial layer coupled to the III-V substrate and growing a second III-V epitaxial layer coupled to the first III-V epitaxial layer. The method further includes forming a first contact in electrical contact with the III-V substrate and forming a second contact in electrical contact with the second III-V epitaxial layer.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including providing a semiconductor wafer, forming a photoresist film on a main surface of the semiconductor wafer, forming a first mask pattern and a second mask pattern on the photoresist film, selectively removing portions of the photoresist film according to the first and second mask patterns, to respectively form a first opening and a second opening in the photoresist film, a position of the second opening differing from that of the first opening, and performing ion implantation of an impurity into the semiconductor wafer, using the photoresist film having the first and second openings formed therein as a mask.