A device includes a semiconductor substrate, source and drain regions disposed in the semiconductor substrate and having a first conductivity type, a body region disposed in the semiconductor substrate, having a second conductivity type, and in which the source region is disposed, a drift region disposed in the semiconductor substrate, having the first conductivity type, and through which charge carriers drift during operation upon application of a bias voltage between the source and drain regions, a device isolation region disposed in the semiconductor substrate and laterally surrounding the body region and the drift region, and a breakdown protection region disposed between the device isolation region and the body region and having the first conductivity type.

RESURF-based dual-gate p-n bimodal conduction laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductors (LDMOS). In an illustrative embodiment, a p-type source is electrically coupled to an n-type drain. A p-type drain is electrically coupled to an n-type source. An n-type layer serves as an n-type conduction channel between the n-type drain and the n-type source. A p-type top layer is disposed at the surface of the substrate of said semiconductor device and is disposed above and adjacent to the n-type layer. The p-type top layer serves as a p-type conduction channel between the p-type source and the p-type drain. An n-gate controls current flow in the n-type conduction channel, and a p-gate controls current flow in the p-type conduction channel.

According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device is provided. The device includes: The second region has a greater curvature than the first region. The device includes: an N-type epitaxy layer; a P-well in the N-type epitaxy layer; a drain in the N-type epitaxy layer; a source in the P-well; and a bulk in the P-well and in contact with the source, wherein the bulk has a greater area in the second region than in the first region.

A method of producing power semiconductor devices from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer is described. The SOI wafer includes a silicon device layer, a bulk silicon wafer, and a buried oxide layer separating the silicon device layer from the bulk silicon wafer. The method includes: forming a hard mask on the silicon device layer, wherein the hard mask covers one or more first regions of the silicon device layer and exposes one or more second regions of the silicon device layer; and before forming any field oxide structures and before implanting any device regions, selectively growing epitaxial silicon on the one or more second regions of the silicon device layer exposed by the hard mask such that the thickness of the one or more second regions is increased relative to the one or more first regions. Various devices produced according to the method are also described.

A P-type Extended Drain MOS (PEDMOS) FETs capable of high speed operation and the capability to withstand relatively high drain voltages. The PEDMOS device includes an active layer (preferably <110> orientated Si) having a P+ SiGe source region, a first P Si drift region, a second P SiGe drift region, and a P+ SiGe drain region. The SiGe regions exert compression on the N-type Si channel, improving hole mobility within the PEDMOS device and resulting in low leakage currents at active layer edges, low channel resistance, and good HCI and GIDL characteristics. Forming the SiGe regions may include etching voids in the Si active layer and depositing SiGe within the voids; implanting Ge into defined regions of the Si active layer; or etching partial voids in the Si active layer, depositing SiGe within the partial voids in contact with Si, and diffusing the Ge into the Si.

A semiconductor device includes a source region. A drain region has a first conductivity type and a second dopant concentration spaced apart from the source region. A first drift region is located between the source region and the drain region and has the first conductivity type and a first dopant concentration that is lower than the second dopant concentration of the drain region. An oxide structure includes a first portion on or over the first drift region and a tapered portion between the first portion and the drain region. A substrate surface extension is between the tapered portion and the drain region. A buffer region has the first conductivity type between the first drift region and the drain region and under the tapered portion of the oxide structure. The buffer region has a third dopant concentration between the second dopant concentration and the first dopant concentration.

The present application relates to a silicon-on-insulator transverse device and a manufacturing method therefor. The device comprises: a substrate; a buried dielectric layer provided on the substrate; a drift region provided on the buried dielectric layer, a vertical conductive structure extending downwards from the drift region to the buried dielectric layer; a low-K dielectric provided in the buried dielectric layer and surrounding the bottom of the vertical conductive structure; and a dielectric layer provided on a side surface of the vertical conductive structure and located between the vertical conductive structure and the drift region and above the low-K dielectric.

A semiconductor die includes: a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate having a silicon device layer, a bulk silicon substrate, and a buried oxide layer separating the silicon device layer from the bulk silicon substrate; a lateral power MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) in a first device region of the silicon device layer; and an additional semiconductor device in a second device region of the silicon device layer and having a lower breakdown voltage than the lateral power MOSFET. The silicon device layer has a first thickness in a first part of the first device region and a second thickness in a second part of the first device region, the second thickness being greater than the first thickness. The silicon device layer has the first thickness throughout the second device region. Additional semiconductor die embodiments are also described.

A semiconductor device includes an insulating layer having a first surface and a second surface, a first semiconductor layer and a first thermally conductive portion provided in isolation from each other on the first surface side of the insulating layer, and a first element isolation layer defining the first semiconductor layer and covering the first thermally conductive portion. The first thermally conductive portion has a third surface facing the first semiconductor layer in a first direction parallel to the first surface and a fourth surface facing a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction and being directed away from the first surface. In the semiconductor device, the thickness of a first part of the first element isolation layer located between the first semiconductor layer and the third surface is less than the thickness of the insulating layer between the first surface and the second surface.

An integrated circuit (IC) device comprises a high voltage semiconductor device (HVSD) on a frontside of a semiconductor body and further comprises an electrode on a backside of the semiconductor body opposite the frontside. The HVSD may, for example, be a transistor or some other suitable type of semiconductor device. The electrode has one or more gaps directly beneath the HVSD. The one or more gaps enhance the effectiveness of the electrode for improving the breakdown voltage of the HVSD.