SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
20220149174 ยท 2022-05-12
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
H01L21/0455
ELECTRICITY
H01L21/383
ELECTRICITY
H01L29/6606
ELECTRICITY
H01L29/66969
ELECTRICITY
H01L29/24
ELECTRICITY
International classification
H01L21/306
ELECTRICITY
H01L29/40
ELECTRICITY
Abstract
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type that is deposited on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a trench that is formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer; an insulating film that covers a bottom surface of the trench and a lateral surface of the trench; a conductive body that fills inside the trench that is covered by the insulating film; a second conductive type region that is formed in the semiconductor layer, is arranged under the trench, and is within a region of the trench in a plan view of the semiconductor substrate; and a metal film that is electrically connected to the conductive body and forms a Schottky barrier with the surface of the semiconductor layer.
Claims
1. A semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type that is deposited on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a trench that is formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer; an insulating film that covers a bottom surface of the trench and a lateral surface of the trench; a conductive body that fills inside the trench that is covered by the insulating film; a second conductive type region that is formed in the semiconductor layer, is arranged under the trench, and is within a region of the trench in a plan view of the semiconductor substrate; and a metal film that is electrically connected to the conductive body and forms a Schottky barrier with the surface of the semiconductor layer.
2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the second conductive type region is within the region of the trench in the plan view without being in contact with an outer edge of the region of the trench in the plan view of the semiconductor substrate.
3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein a first conductivity type region occupies a region in the semiconductor layer except the region of the trench in the plan view of the semiconductor substrate.
4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the second conductive type region is formed by ion implantation.
5. The semiconductor device according to claim 4, wherein an ion implanted surface that is on the bottom surface of the trench is within the region of the trench in the plan view without being in contact with an outer edge of the region of the trench in the plan view of the semiconductor substrate.
6. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein an impurity concentration distribution of a second conductivity type in the second conductive type region takes a highest value at a depth separated from the bottom surface of the trench.
7. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the second semiconductor region has an impurity of a second conductivity type formed by vapor diffusion.
8. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the insulating film is a thermal oxide film.
9. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising the semiconductor device including: depositing a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type on a surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a trench that on a surface of the semiconductor layer; covering a bottom surface of the trench and a lateral surface of the trench with an insulating film; filling a conductive body inside the trench that is covered by the insulating film; forming a second conductive type region in the semiconductor layer and under the trench; connecting a metal film to the conductive body to form a Schottky barrier with a surface of the semiconductor layer; forming a doping mask that is an insulator mask pattern that exposes a middle portion of the bottom surface of the trench, and that covers a surface of the semiconductor layer around the trench, an outer edge portion of a bottom surface of the trench, and a lateral surface of the trench; and doping an impurity of a second conductive type using the insulator mask pattern as a mask, including introducing the impurity in the semiconductor layer through the middle portion of the bottom surface.
10. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to claim 9, further comprising: forming the trench before the forming of the doping mask, including forming the insulator mask pattern that opens on the surface of the semiconductor layer in a region where the trench is to be formed, and etching the semiconductor layer using the insulator mask pattern as a mask, forming an insulator layer in the forming of the doping mask, the insulator layer being deposited on the insulator mask pattern in the forming of the trench and covering a bottom surface and lateral surface of the trench, and performing anisotropic etching of the insulator layer so as to expose the middle portion of the bottom surface of the trench while a part of the insulator layer remains, the part of the insulator layer covering an outer edge portion of the bottom surface of the trench and the lateral surface of the trench.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
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DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
[0023] Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present disclosure will be explained with reference to the drawings.
First Embodiment
[0024] First, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to a first embodiment and the semiconductor device will be described.
(Manufacturing Method)
[0025] The semiconductor device is manufactured as follows. A process of forming a trench is performed as shown in
[0026] The semiconductor substrate 101 is an N-type high-concentration silicon substrate. The semiconductor layer 102 is an N-type low-concentration semiconductor layer deposited on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 101 by an epitaxial growth method.
[0027] The insulator mask pattern 103 is a mask pattern for etching that opens on a surface of the semiconductor layer 102 in a region where the trench is to be formed. An insulating material that constitutes the insulator mask pattern 103 includes silicon oxide, silicon nitride, TEOS (tetraethyl orthosilicate), or the like. The insulator mask pattern 103 is deposited by, for example, chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
[0028] Any number of trenches 104 can be formed.
[0029] The semiconductor substrate 101 and the semiconductor layer 102 may be one of the following semiconductor materials: SiC (silicon carbide), GaN (gallium nitride), or Ga.sub.2O.sub.3 (gallium oxide).
[0030] Next, a process of forming a doping mask is performed to introduce a P-type impurity under the trench 104, followed by a process of doping.
[0031] In the process of forming a doping mask, first, an insulator layer 105 is formed as shown in
[0032] Next, as shown in
[0033] Therefore, as shown in
[0034] The sidewall insulator 105S is thicker at a portion closer to the bottom surface of the trench 104 because the etching progresses more at the portion closer to the opening of the trench 104.
[0035] On the surface of the semiconductor layer 102 around the trench 104, the insulator mask pattern 103 is covered by the insulator layer 105 before etching as shown in
[0036] The insulator mask pattern 103 and the sidewall insulator 105S remaining after the above anisotropic etching are collectively referred to as an insulator mask pattern 106.
[0037] As shown in
[0038] Next, the process of doping is performed.
[0039] In the process of doping, as shown in
[0040] After being introduced, the P-type impurity is activated by annealing to form a P-type region 102P. After this annealing, the P-type impurity diffuses in the semiconductor layer 102 more than at the time of ion implantation, but remains within the width of the trench 104 in the lateral direction, so that the P-type region 102P does not protrude outward from the trench 104.
[0041] Next, the insulator mask pattern 106 is removed as shown in
[0042] Furthermore, after the insulating film 107b around the trench 104 is removed, as shown in
(Semiconductor Device)
[0043] The semiconductor device 100 shown in
[0044] The second conductive type region 102P is arranged under the trench 104 and is within the region of the trench 104 in a plan view of the semiconductor substrate 101.
[0045] More specifically, in a plan view of the semiconductor substrate 101, the second conductive type region 102P is not in contact with the outer edge of the region of the trench 104 but is separated from the outer edge by a certain distance to be within the region of the trench 104.
[0046] The second conductive type region 102P is within the width of the bottom portion of the trench 104, and does not cover a corner at the bottom portion of the trench 104. The corner at the bottom portion of the trench 104 may have a round shape. This effectively relaxes local concentration of the electric field when a reverse voltage is applied.
[0047] The region in the semiconductor layer 102 except the region of the trench 104 in the plan view of the semiconductor substrate 101 is occupied by the first conductive type (N-type) region. Therefore, it is possible to ensure a large conductive region for forward current under a Schottky junction.
[0048] The second conductive type region 102P is a region formed by ion implantation. The ion implanted surface appearing at the bottom surface of the trench 104 corresponds to the middle portion 104c in
[0049] The impurity concentration distribution of the second conductivity type (P-type) in the second conductive type region 102P takes its highest value at a depth separated from the bottom surface of the trench 104 (at a point 102M in
[0050] The P-type impurity also diffuses laterally from the ion implanted surface 102b, but it is distributed at a lower concentration than at the ion implanted surface 102b.
[0051] The semiconductor device 100 can be applied to SBDs (Schottky diodes), MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors), IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors), and the like.
[0052] When the semiconductor device 100 constitutes a MOSFET, the P-body, gate, and the like are formed in the center portion, and the surface electrode metal film 109b serves as a source electrode and the back electrode metal film 110 serves as a drain electrode. When the semiconductor device 100 constitutes an IGBT, further, a p-type high-concentration substrate is applied as the semiconductor substrate 101, the surface electrode metal film 109b serves as an emitter electrode, and the back electrode metal film 110 serves as a collector electrode.
Second Embodiment
[0053] Next, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to a second embodiment and the semiconductor device will be described.
(Manufacturing Method)
[0054] The semiconductor device is manufactured as follows. A process of forming a trench is carried out as shown in
[0055] The semiconductor substrate 201 is an N-type high-concentration silicon substrate. The semiconductor layer 202 is an N-type low-concentration semiconductor layer deposited on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 201 by the epitaxial growth method.
[0056] The insulator mask pattern 203 is a mask pattern for etching that opens on the surface of the semiconductor layer 202 in the region where the trench is to be formed. An insulating material that constitutes the insulator mask pattern 203 includes silicon oxide, silicon nitride, TEOS (tetraethyl orthosilicate), or the like. The insulator mask pattern 203 is deposited using, for example, chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
[0057] Any number of trenches 204 can be formed.
[0058] Next, a process of forming a doping mask is performed to introduce a P-type impurity under the trench 204, followed by a process of doping.
[0059] In the process of forming the doping mask, first, an insulator layer 205 is formed as shown in
[0060] Next, as shown in
[0061] Therefore, as shown in
[0062] The sidewall insulator 205S is thicker at a portion closer to the bottom surface of the trench 204 because the etching progresses more at the portion closer to the opening of the trench 204.
[0063] On the surface of the semiconductor layer 202 around the trench 204, the insulator mask pattern 103 is covered by the insulator layer 205 before etching as shown in
[0064] The insulator mask pattern 203 and the sidewall insulator 205S remaining after the above anisotropic etching are collectively referred to as an insulator mask pattern 206.
[0065] As shown in
[0066] Next, the process of doping is performed.
[0067] In the process of doping, as shown in
[0068] After being introduced, the P-type impurity is activated by annealing to form a P-type region 202P. After this annealing, the P-type impurity diffuses in the semiconductor layer 202 more than at the time of introduction, but remains within the width of the trench 204 in the lateral direction, so that the P-type region 202P does not protrude outward from the trench 204.
[0069] Next, the insulator mask pattern 206 is removed as shown in
[0070] Furthermore, after the insulating film 207b around the trench 204 is removed, as shown in
(Semiconductor Device)
[0071] The semiconductor device 200 shown in
[0072] The second conductive type region 202P is arranged under the trench 204 and is within the region of the trench 204 in a plan view of the semiconductor substrate 201.
[0073] More specifically, in a plan view of the semiconductor substrate 201, the second conductive type region 202P is not in contact with the outer edge of the region of the trench 204, but is separated from the outer edge by a certain distance to be within the region of the trench 204.
[0074] The second conductive type region 202P is within the width of the bottom portion of the trench 204, and does not cover the corner of the bottom portion of the trench 204. The corner of the bottom portion of the trench 204 may have a round shape. This effectively relaxes local concentration of the electric field when a reverse voltage is applied.
[0075] The region in the semiconductor layer 202 except the region of the trench 204 in the plan view of the semiconductor substrate 201 is occupied by the first conductive type (N-type) region. Therefore, it is possible to ensure a large conductive region for forward current under a Schottky junction.
[0076] The second conductive type region 202P is a region formed by the vapor diffusion. The impurity-introduced surface appearing at the bottom surface of the trench 204 corresponds to the middle portion 204c in
[0077] The impurity concentration distribution of the second conductivity type (P-type) in the second conductive type region 202P takes its highest value at the impurity-introduced surface 202b. This is due to the diffusion method from the surface.
[0078] The P-type impurity also diffuses laterally from the impurity-introduced surface 202b, but it is distributed at a lower concentration than at the impurity-introduced surface 202b.
[0079] The semiconductor device 200 can be applied to SBDs (Schottky diodes), MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors), IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors), and the like.
[0080] When the semiconductor device 200 constitutes a MOSFET, the P-body, gate, and the like are formed in the center portion, and the surface electrode metal film 209b serves as a source electrode and the back electrode metal film 210 serves as a drain electrode. When the semiconductor device 200 constitutes an IGBT, further, a p-type high-concentration substrate is applied as the semiconductor substrate 201, the surface electrode metal film 209b serves as an emitter electrode, and the back electrode metal film 210 serves as a collector electrode.
Effects
[0081] According to the above-described embodiments, the second conductive type region arranged under the trench relaxes the electric field when a reverse voltage is applied so as to improve the voltage resistance. Furthermore, it is possible to ensure the conductive region for forward current under a Schottky junction so as to suppress the increase in the on-resistance.
[Comparison of Characteristics]
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[0083] A point 13 in the graph of
[0084] A line 16 in the graph of
[0085] Among the SBDs of comparative examples in which the P-type region 102P protruded outward from the trench 104, the SBD indicated by point 14 had an improved voltage resistance VRM than a SBD of a comparative example having no P-type region 102P. However, the forward voltage VF increased in turn.
[0086] In the SBD of comparative examples having the P-type region 102P protruding outward from the trench 104, the forward voltage VF increases as the voltage resistance VRM is improved. This is because the improvement of voltage resistance is achieved, but is accompanied by an increase in on-resistance.
[0087] In contrast, in the SBD of the example of the present invention (point 13), the voltage resistance was improved while suppressing the increase in on-resistance. Thus, compared to the comparative examples, it was possible to achieve lower VF and higher voltage resistance VRM.
[0088] The embodiments of the present disclosure have been described above, but these embodiments are shown as examples and can be implemented in various other forms. Omission, replacement, or modification of components may be made as long as they do not depart from the gist of the invention.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
[0089] The present disclosure can be used for a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device.
REFERENCE SIGNS LIST
[0090] 100 Semiconductor Device [0091] 101 Semiconductor substrate [0092] 102 Semiconductor Layer (N-type) [0093] 102P Second Conductive Type Region (P-type) [0094] 104 Trench [0095] 107a Insulating Film (Thermal Oxide Film) [0096] 108 Conductive Body [0097] 109a Schottky Metal Film [0098] 109b Surface Electrode Metal Film [0099] 110 Back Electrode Metal Film