An insulated gate turn-off thyristor has a layered structure including a p+ layer (e.g., a substrate), an n-epi layer, a p-well, vertical insulated gate regions formed in the p-well, and an n-layer over the p-well and between the gate regions, so that vertical npn and pnp transistors are formed. The p-well has an intermediate highly doped portion. When the gate regions are sufficiently biased, an inversion layer surrounds the gate regions, causing the effective base of the npn transistor to be narrowed to increase its beta. When the product of the betas exceeds one, controlled latch-up of the thyristor is initiated. The p-well's highly doped intermediate region enables improvement in the npn transistor efficiency as well as enabling more independent control over the characteristics of the n-type layer (emitter), the emitter-base junction characteristics, and the overall dopant concentration and thickness of the p-type base.

A die stack assembly includes first and second power semiconductor device dice. The first die has a P type peripheral edge separation structure that extends from the top planar semiconductor surface of the first die all the way to the bottom planar semiconductor surface of the die, and that is doped at least in part with aluminum. The backside of the first die is mounted to the backside of the second die. A metal feature that is not covered with passivation, and that can serve as a bonding pad, is disposed on part of the peripheral edge separation structure. A metal member (for example, a bond wire or metal clip) contacts the metal feature such that an electrical connection is established from the metal member, through the metal feature, through the peripheral edge separation structure of the first die, and to an electrode of the second die.

An integrated circuit device includes a first III-V compound layer, a second III-V compound layer over the first III-V compound layer, a gate dielectric over the second III-V compound layer, and a gate electrode over the gate dielectric. An anode electrode and a cathode electrode are formed on opposite sides of the gate electrode. The anode electrode is electrically connected to the gate electrode. The anode electrode, the cathode electrode, and the gate electrode form portions of a rectifier.

A die stack assembly includes first and second power semiconductor device dice. The first die has a P type peripheral edge separation structure that extends from the top planar semiconductor surface of the first die all the way to the bottom planar semiconductor surface of the die, and that is doped at least in part with aluminum. The backside of the first die is mounted to the backside of the second die. A metal feature that is not covered with passivation, and that can serve as a bonding pad, is disposed on part of the peripheral edge separation structure. A metal member (for example, a bond wire or metal clip) contacts the metal feature such that an electrical connection is established from the metal member, through the metal feature, through the peripheral edge separation structure of the first die, and to an electrode of the second die.

A reverse conducting insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) manufacturing method, comprising the following steps: providing a substrate having an IGBT structure formed on the front surface thereof; implanting P+ ions onto the back surface of the substrate; forming a channel on the back surface of the substrate through photolithography and etching processes; planarizing the back surface of the substrate through a laser scanning process to form P-type and N-type interval structures; and forming a back surface collector by conducting a back metalizing process on the back surface of the substrate. Laser scanning process can process only the back surface structure requiring annealing, thus solve the problem of the front surface structure of the reverse conducting IGBT restricting back surface annealing to a low temperature, improving the P-type and N-type impurity activation efficiency in the back surface structure of the reverse conducting IGBT, and enhancing the performance of the reverse conducting IGBT.

A RC power semiconductor is provided which comprises a plurality of diode cells and a plurality of GCT cells. Each GCT cell comprises a first cathode layer with at least three cathode layer regions, which are separated from each other by a base layer. In orthogonal projection onto a plane parallel to the first main side each one of the cathode layer regions is strip-shaped and a width (w, w), wherein the diode cells alternate with the GCT cells in a lateral direction in at least a mixed part, wherein in each GCT cell, the width (w) of each one of the two outer cathode layer regions next to a diode cell neighboring to that GCT cell is less than the width (w) of any intermediate cathode layer region between the two outer cathode layer regions in that GCT cell.

A coherent optical receiver that receives an optical PSK-modulated signal includes optical elements that combine the optical PSK-modulated signal and an optical local-oscillating (LO) signal and splits the combined optical signals into multiple parts that have a predefined phase offset relative to one another. The receiver further includes at least one thyristor and control circuitry operably coupled to terminals of the at least one thyristor. The control circuitry is configured to receive the multiple parts of the combined optical signals and controls switching operation of the at least one thyristor according to phase offset of optical PSK-modulated signal relative to the optical LO signal.

Embodiments of semiconductor devices, integrated circuit devices and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a semiconductor device may include a first fin and a second fin disposed on a substrate. The first fin may have a portion including a first material disposed between a second material and the substrate, the second material disposed between a third material and the first material, and the third material disposed between a fourth material and the second material. The first and third materials may be formed from a first type of extrinsic semiconductor, and the second and fourth materials may be formed from a second, different type of extrinsic semiconductor. The second fin may be laterally separated from the first fin and materially contiguous with at least one of the first, second, third or fourth materials. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

Disclosed is a power semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor wafer having a first main side and second main side. The semiconductor wafer comprises parallel thyristor cells, which each comprises (a) a cathode electrode and gate electrode on the first main side; (b) a cathode layer comprising a cathode region of a first conductivity type, forming an ohmic contact with the cathode electrode; (c) a first base layer of a second conductivity type, wherein the cathode region forms a p-n junction between the first base layer and cathode region; (d) a second base layer of the first conductivity type forming a second p-n junction with the first base layer; (e) an anode layer of the second conductivity type separated from the first base layer by the second base layer. The gate electrodes of the plurality of thyristor cells form a gate design comprising multiple polygons each comprising at least four struts.