H ELECTRICITY
H01 ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
H01L SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
H01L29/00 Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof; ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor;
H01L29/02 Semiconductor bodies; ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
H01L29/06 characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions; ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions
H01L29/0603 characterised by particular constructional design considerations, e.g. for preventing surface leakage, for controlling electric field concentration or for internal isolations regions
H01L29/0607 for preventing surface leakage or controlling electric field concentration
H01L29/0611 for increasing or controlling the breakdown voltage of reverse biased devices
H01L29/0615 by the doping profile or the shape or the arrangement of the PN junction, or with supplementary regions, e.g. junction termination extension [JTE]
H01L29/0619 with a supplementary region doped oppositely to or in rectifying contact with the semiconductor containing or contacting region, e.g. guard rings with PN or Schottky junction