A semiconductor device includes a transistor in a semiconductor body having a first main surface. The transistor includes: a source contact electrically connected to a source region; a drain contact electrically connected to a drain region; a gate electrode at the channel region, the channel region and a drift zone disposed along a first direction between the source and drain regions, the first direction being parallel to the first main surface, the channel region patterned into a ridge by adjacent gate trenches formed in the first main surface, the adjacent gate trenches spaced apart in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a longitudinal axis of the ridge extending in the first direction and a longitudinal axis of the gate trenches extending in the first direction; and at least one of the source and drain contacts being adjacent to a second main surface opposite the first main surface.

A lateral trench MOSFET comprises an insulating layer buried in a substrate, a body region in the substrate, an isolation region in the substrate, a first drain/source region over the body region, a second drain/source region in the substrate, wherein the first drain/source region and the second drain/source region are on opposing sides of the isolation region, a drift region comprising a first drift region of a first doping density formed between the second drain/source region and the insulating layer, wherein the first drift region comprises an upper portion surrounded by isolation regions and a lower portion and a second drift region of a second doping density formed between the isolation region and the insulating layer, wherein a height of the second drift region is equal to a height of the lower portion of the first drift region.

High voltage devices and methods for forming a high voltage device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate having top and bottom surfaces. The substrate is defined with a device region and a recessed region disposed within the device region. The recessed region includes a recessed surface disposed lower than the top surface of the substrate. A transistor is formed over the substrate. Forming the transistor includes forming a gate at least over the recessed surface and forming a source region adjacent to a first side of the gate below the recessed surface. Forming the transistor also includes forming a drain region displaced away from a second side of the gate. First and second device wells are formed in the substrate within the device region. The first device well encompasses the drain region and the second device well encompasses the source region.

The present invention provides a FinFET device, including at least one fin structure, wherein the fin structure has a first-type well region, and a second-type well region adjacent to the first-type well region, a trench located in the fin structure and disposed between the first-type well region and the second-type well region, an insulating layer disposed in the trench, and a metal gate crossing over and disposed on the insulating layer.

An integrated circuit device includes a pad layer having a body portion with a first doping type laterally adjacent to a drift region portion with a second doping type, a trench formed in the pad layer, the trench extending through an interface of the body portion and the drift region portion, a gate formed in the trench and over a top surface of the pad layer along the interface of the body portion and the drift region portion, an oxide formed in the trench on opposing sides of the gate, and a field plate embedded in the oxide on each of the opposing sides of the gate.

A switched-mode power converter includes an inductive storage element and a cascode circuit. The cascode circuit includes a double-gate field effect transistor. A switchable load path of the double-gate field effect transistor is electrically connected in series with the inductive storage element.

A semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes a source region and a drain region disposed adjacent to a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode, the first gate electrode being disconnected from the second gate electrode. The transistor further includes a body region. The first gate electrode is adjacent to a first portion of the body region and the second gate electrode is adjacent to a second portion of the body region. The transistor further includes first trenches patterning the first portion of the body region into a first ridge, and second trenches patterning the second portion of the body region into a second ridge. The first gate electrode is arranged in at least one of first trenches, and the second gate electrode is arranged in at least one of the second trenches.

There is provided a semiconductor device having LDMOS transistors embedded in a semiconductor substrate to boost source-drain breakdown voltage, with arrangements to prevent fluctuations of element characteristics caused by electric field concentration so that the reliability of the semiconductor device is improved. A trench is formed over the upper surface of a separation insulating film of each LDMOS transistor, the trench having a gate electrode partially embedded therein. This structure prevents electric field concentration in the semiconductor substrate near the source-side edge of the separation insulating film.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a trench; a gate dielectric layer formed over a surface of the trench; a gate electrode positioned in the trench at a level lower than a top surface of the substrate, and including a first buried portion and a second buried portion over the first buried portion; and a first doping region and a second doping region formed in the substrate on both sides of the gate electrode, and overlapping with the second buried portion, wherein the first buried portion includes a first barrier which has a first work function, and the second buried portion includes a second barrier which has a second work function lower than the first work function.

Methods and structures for forming a localized, strained region of a substrate are described. Trenches may be formed at boundaries of a localized region of a substrate. An upper portion of sidewalls at the localized region may be covered with a covering layer, and a lower portion of the sidewalls at the localized region may not be covered. A converting material may be formed in contact with the lower portion of the localized region, and the substrate heated. The heating may introduce a chemical species from the converting material into the lower portion, which creates stress in the localized region. The methods may be used to form strained-channel finFETs.