There is disclosed the integration of a Schottky diode with a MOSFET, more in detail there is a free-wheeling Schottky diode and a power MOSFET on top of a buried grid material structure. Advantages of the specific design allow the whole surface area to be used for MOSFET and Schottky diode structures, the shared drift layer is not limited by Schottky diode or MOSFET design rules and therefore, one can decrease the thickness and increase the doping concentration of the drift layer closer to a punch through design compared to the state of the art. This results in higher conductivity and lower on-resistance of the device with no influence on the voltage blocking performance. The integrated device can operate at higher frequency. The risk for bipolar degradation is avoided.

A cell structure of a silicon carbide MOSFET device, comprising a drift region (3) located on a substrate layer (2), a second conducting type well region (4) and a first JFET region (51) that are located in the drift region (3), an enhancement region located within a surface of the well region (4), a gate insulating layer (8) located on a first conducting type enhancement region (6), the well region (4) and the first JFET region (51) and being in contact therewith at the same time, a gate (9) located on the gate insulating layer, source metal (10) located on the enhancement region, Schottky metal (11) located on a second conducting type enhancement region (7) and the drift region (3), a second JFET region (52) located on a surface of the drift region (3) between the Schottky metals (11), and drain metal (12).

A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes: a gate electrode provided in a gate trench and provided so as to oppose a source region via a gate insulating film; a first bottom protection region of a second conductivity type provided below the gate insulating film; a plurality of first connection regions of the second conductivity type provided at a first interval in an extension direction of the gate trench and electrically connecting the first bottom protection region and a body region; a Schottky electrode provided in a Schottky trench; a second bottom protection region of the second conductivity type provided below the Schottky electrode; and a plurality of second connection regions of the second conductivity type provided at a second interval smaller than the first interval in an extension direction of the Schottky trench and electrically connecting the second bottom protection region and the body region.

Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a trench-type power device. The manufacturing method comprises: forming a drift region; forming a first trench and a second trench in the drift region; forming a gate stack in the first trench; forming a doped region and a well region of P type in the drift region by performing first ion implantation; forming a source region of N type in the well region by performing second ion implantation. The well region in which a dopant concentration gradually decreases with depth is formed by the first ion implantation, an upper part of the well region is inverted by the second ion implantation to form the source region. The doped region and well region can be formed by self-alignment in a common ion implantation step, improving power device performance, reducing numbers of process steps of ion implantation and masks, reducing manufacturing cost.

Disclosed is a trench-type power device and a manufacturing method thereof. The trench-type power device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a drift region located on the semiconductor substrate; a first trench and a second trench located in the drift region; a gate stack located in the first trench; and Schottky metal located on a side wall of the second trench, wherein the Schottky metal and the drift region form a Schottky barrier diode. The trench-type power device adopts a double-trench structure, which combines a trench-type MOSFET with the Schottky barrier diode and forms the Schottky metal on the side wall of the trench, so that the performance of the power device can be improved, and the unit area of the power device can be reduced.

A method for making an integrated device that includes a plurality of planar MOSFETs, includes forming a plurality of doped body regions in an upper portion of a silicon carbide substrate composition and a plurality of doped source regions. A first contact region is formed in a first source region and a second contact region is formed in a second source region. The first and second contact regions are separated by a JFET region that is longer in one planar dimension than the other. The first and second contact regions are separated by the longer planar dimension. The JFET region is bounded on at least one side corresponding to the longer planar dimension by a source region and a body region in conductive contact with at least one contact region.

A semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor body. A first shielding region of a first conductivity type is connected to a first contact at a first surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor body. A current spread region of a second conductivity type is connected to a second contact at a second surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor body. A doping concentration profile of the current spread region includes peaks along a vertical direction perpendicular to the first surface. A doping concentration of one peak or one peak-group of the peaks is at least 50% higher than a doping concentration of any other peak of the current spread region. A vertical distance between the one peak or the one peak-group of the current spread region and the first surface is larger than a second vertical distance between the first surface and a maximum doping peak of the first shielding region.

The present application relates to a semiconductor transistor device that includes a Schottky diode electrically connected in parallel to a body diode formed between a body region and a drift region. A diode junction of the Schottky diode is formed adjacent to the drift region and is arranged vertically above a lower end of the body region.

A trench metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) device comprises an active cell area including a plurality of superjunction trench power MOSFETs, and a Schottky diode area including a plurality of Schottky diodes formed in the drift region having the superjunction structure. Each of the integrated Schottky diodes includes a Schottky contact between a lightly doped semiconductor layer and a metallic layer.

Disclosed is a cellular structure of a silicon carbide MOSFET device, and a silicon carbide MOSFET device. The cellular structure comprises: second conductive well regions located on two sides of the cellular structure and arranged within the surface of a drift layer, first conductive source regions located within the surfaces of the well regions, and a gate structure located at the center of the cellular structure and in contact with the source regions, the well regions, and the drift layer. The cellular structure further comprises a source metal layer located above the source regions and forming ohmic contact with the source regions; on two sides of the cellular structure, side trenches are formed downwardly on regions of the drift layer that are not covered by the well regions; Schottky metal layers forming Schottky contact with the drift layer below the side trenches are arranged in the side trenches.