SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
20250113579 ยท 2025-04-03
Inventors
Cpc classification
H10D30/475
ELECTRICITY
H10D64/254
ELECTRICITY
International classification
H10D64/23
ELECTRICITY
H10D30/47
ELECTRICITY
H10D64/27
ELECTRICITY
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a semiconductor device including a plurality of sources, a plurality of gates, and a plurality of drains located in an active area. In the active area, the sources, the gates, and the drains are alternately arranged along a first direction, and along the first direction, the sources include two sources respectively closest to ends of the arrangement, and any one of the gates is located between one of the sources and one of the drains, a length of at least a source located at the center along the first direction is greater than lengths of sources located at both ends along the first direction. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of rows of through holes extending through a substrate and a multilayer semiconductor layer, a plurality of rows of the through holes are arranged along the first direction, and an orthographic projection.
Claims
1. A semiconductor device comprising an active area and a non-active area surrounding the active area, the semiconductor device further comprising: a substrate; a multilayer semiconductor layer located on one side of the substrate; and a plurality of sources, a plurality of gates, and a plurality of drains located on one side of the multilayer semiconductor layer opposite the substrate and located in the active area, wherein, in the active area, the sources, the gates, and the drains are alternately arranged along a first direction, wherein along the first direction, the sources comprise two sources respectively closest to ends of the arrangement, wherein any one of the gates is located between one of the sources and one of the drains, and wherein the first direction is parallel to a plane where the substrate is located; wherein, along the first direction, a length of at least a source located at a center along the first direction is greater than lengths of sources located at both ends along the first direction; and wherein the semiconductor device further comprises a plurality of rows of through holes extending through the substrate as well as the multilayer semiconductor layer, wherein a plurality of rows of the through holes are arranged along the first direction, wherein an orthographic projection of the source on the substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of the through holes on the substrate, wherein along the first direction, the sources located at both ends are correspondingly provided with rows of the through holes, wherein at least the source located at the center is correspondingly provided with b rows of the through holes, wherein b=2*a is satisfied, wherein both a and b are positive integers, wherein a1, and wherein b2.
2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein, along the first direction, an electrode located at the center of the arrangement is a drain; and wherein lengths of at least the two sources closest to the drain along the first direction are greater than lengths of the sources located at both ends along the first direction, and wherein the b rows of the through holes are provided correspondingly.
3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein, along the first direction, the electrode located at the center of the arrangement is a source; and wherein a length of at least the source along the first direction is greater than lengths of the sources located at both ends along the first direction, and wherein the b rows of the through holes are provided correspondingly.
4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein a number of rows of the through holes provided corresponding to each source is one of a and b.
5. The semiconductor device according to claim 4, wherein, among any two of the nearest sources, the number of rows of the through holes corresponding to the source close to the center of the arrangement is greater than or equal to the number of rows of the through holes corresponding to the sources opposite the center of the arrangement.
6. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein, along the first direction, starting from a first source located at one end, a m-th source is provided with the b rows of the through holes correspondingly; wherein a length Y.sub.m of the m-th source along the first direction satisfies Y.sub.m3Y.sub.h+2Y.sub.c; and wherein Y.sub.h is a length of the through hole along the first direction, wherein Y.sub.c is a distance between the opposite edges of the sources and the through hole located at both ends in the first direction, and wherein m is a positive integer greater than 1.
7. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein a distance L between two rows of the through holes corresponding to the same source in the first direction satisfies LY.sub.h; and wherein Y.sub.h is a length of the through hole along the first direction.
8. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein a distance H between the opposite edges of the sources and the through holes between the sources located at both ends in the first direction satisfies Y.sub.cHY.sub.h+Y.sub.c; and wherein Y.sub.h is a length of the through hole in the first direction, and wherein Y.sub.c is a distance between the opposite edges of the sources and the through holes located at both ends in the first direction.
9. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the number of the through holes in each row of the through holes is equal.
10. The semiconductor device according to claim 8, wherein, in each row of the through holes, a line connecting the geometric centers of the through holes at the same number of position is parallel to the first direction.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0034] The present disclosure will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the drawings and embodiments. It can be understood that the specific embodiments described here are only used to explain the present disclosure, but not to limit the present disclosure. In addition, it should be noted that, for convenience of description, only some but not all structures related to the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, and the shapes and sizes of the elements in the drawings do not reflect their true proportions and are only intended to illustrate the present disclosure.
[0035] It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present application without departing from the spirit or scope of the present application. Thus, the present application is intended to cover modifications and variations of the present application that fall within the scope of the corresponding claims (the technical solutions claimed) and their equivalents. It should be noted that the implementation modes provided in the embodiments of the present application can be combined with each other if there is no contradiction.
[0036] An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a semiconductor device, including an active area and a non-active area surrounding the active area. The semiconductor device further includes a substrate, a multilayer semiconductor layer, a plurality of sources, a plurality of gates and a plurality of drains, wherein the multilayer semiconductor layer is located on one side of the substrate, the plurality of sources, the plurality of gates and the plurality of drains are located on one side of the multilayer semiconductor layer away from the substrate and located in the active area, in the active area, the sources, the gates and the drains are alternately arranged along a first direction, and along the first direction, the sources includes two sources respectively closest to ends of the arrangement, and any one of the gates is located between one of the sources and one of the drains, and the first direction is parallel to a plane where the substrate is located, along the first direction, a length of at least a source located at the center along the first direction is greater than lengths of sources located at both ends along the first direction, and the semiconductor device further includes a plurality of rows of through holes extending through the substrate as well as the multilayer semiconductor layer, a plurality of rows of the through holes are arranged along the first direction, and an orthographic projection of the source on the substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of the through holes on the substrate, along the first direction, the sources located at both ends are correspondingly provided with a rows of the through holes, and at least the source located at the center is correspondingly provided with b rows of the through holes, and b=2*a is satisfied, and both a and b are positive integers, and a1, b2.
[0037] By adopting the above technical solution, both the heat dissipation of the device can be taken into account and the heat dissipation in the center area of the device can be improved, and also the through hole relationship between the ends of the arrangement and the center of the arrangement is set up, so that the current flow path of the central device is similar to that of the edge device, thereby improving the symmetry of the overall current flow path and ensuring the radio frequency characteristics of the semiconductor device.
[0038] The above is the core idea of the present application, and based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without making creative labor fall within the scope of protection of the present application. The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present application.
[0039]
[0040] The semiconductor device provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure is designed as a multi-gate structure. As shown in
[0041] In addition, as shown in
[0042] It should be noted that each row of through holes only needs to include at least one through hole 60, and the embodiment of the present disclosure does not limit the number of through holes in a row of through holes. In addition,
[0043] Typically, the gate 40 is negatively biased, the drain 50 is forward biased, and the source 30 is at zero potential (grounded). Referring to
[0044] In this embodiment, the source 30 is used as a heat dissipation area, by arranging the length of at least the source located at the center (such as the source 30-2) along the first direction y to be greater than the length of the sources located at both ends (such as the source 30-1 and the source 30-3) along the first direction y, the spacing between the gates (such as the gate 40-2 and the gate 40-3) in the center of the device may be increased, the area of the heat dissipation area in the center of the device may be increased, and the heat dissipation capability of the center area of the device may be improved.
[0045] In this embodiment, the plurality of sources 30, the plurality of gates 40, and the plurality of drains 50 are arranged along the first direction y, where, the source located at the center can be understood as the source closest to the center of the arrangement among the plurality of sources, and the sources at both ends mean the two sources closest to the ends of the arrangement. As mentioned above, the electrodes at the ends of the arrangement may be the sources, at this time, the sources located at both ends are the two sources located at the ends of the arrangement, and the following descriptions will take the electrodes located at the ends of the arrangement as sources as examples. Referring to
[0046] Furthermore, in the prior art, the number of rows of through holes in the arrangement center and arrangement edge areas is generally the same. When the length of the source at the center along the first direction y increases, if the source is still provided with the same number of rows of through holes, on the one hand, this will cause the length of the current flow path (the length from the drain to the through hole) to increase, thereby increasing the source resistance and affecting the radio frequency characteristics of the semiconductor device, for example, this may reduce key electrical properties such as the maximum oscillation frequency of the device; on the other hand, this will also cause the current flow path lengths from the same drain to the sources on both sides to be unequal, resulting in asymmetry in the current flow path, and this will also have a greater impact on the radio frequency characteristics of the semiconductor device.
[0047] In order to solve the heat dissipation problem in the center area of the device and reduce the impact on the radio frequency characteristics of the device, in this embodiment, while increasing the length of the source 30 at the center along the first direction y, the number b of rows of through hole corresponding to the source 30 at the center is designed to be twice the number a of rows of through hole corresponding to the sources 30 at both ends, by arranging the relationship between the through holes at the end of the arrangement and the center of the arrangement, the current flow path of the central device is similar to the current flow path of the edge device, shortening the length of the current flow path, improving the symmetry of the overall current flow path and ensuring that the device has good radio frequency characteristics.
[0048] Exemplarily, referring to
[0049] It should be noted that
[0050] In addition, each source 30 may be provided with at most two rows of through holes 60 correspondingly, in this way, the current flow path may be shortened, the symmetry of the current flow path may be improved, and the radio frequency characteristics of the semiconductor device may be ensured, and at the same time, excessive through holes may be avoided to affect the heat dissipation capability of the device.
[0051] Each row of through holes may include at least one through hole 60, the number of through holes in each row of through holes is equal.
[0052] The multilayer semiconductor layer 20 may include a semiconductor material based on a Group III-V compound. Specifically, the multilayer semiconductor layer 20 may include a nucleation layer, a buffer layer, a channel layer, and a barrier layer in order from the direction of the substrate 10, wherein, the channel layer and the upper barrier layer together form a heterojunction structure, and the channel layer provides a channel for two-dimensional electron gas movement. The nucleation layer affects parameters such as crystal quality, surface morphology, and electrical properties of the upper heterojunction material. The nucleation layer changes with different substrate 10 materials, and mainly plays a role in matching the substrate 10 material and the semiconductor material layer in the heterojunction structure. The buffer layer plays a role in bonding the semiconductor material layer that needs to be grown next, and may further protect the substrate 10 material from being invaded by some metal ions. The material of the buffer layer may be a Group III nitride material such as AlGaN, GaN, or AlGaInN. In the present disclosure, the buffer layer is a gallium nitride layer (Al)GaN with controllable aluminum content.
[0053] In the embodiment of the present disclosure, by arranging the length of at least the source located at the center along the first direction to be greater than the length of the sources located at both ends along the first direction, the area of the source located at the center is greater than the area of the sources located at both ends, which thus increases the area of the heat dissipation area in the central area of the semiconductor device and improves the heat dissipation capacity of the central area of the semiconductor device, at the same time, by arranging the number of rows of through holes corresponding to at least the source located at the center as twice the number of rows of through holes corresponding to the sources located at both ends, while the length of the central source along the first direction is increased, the distance between the through holes thereof and the adjacent gates may be kept short, which thus ensures a short current flow path and ensures the radio frequency characteristics of the semiconductor device.
[0054] Based on the above embodiments, the number of the sources 30, the gates 40, and the drains 50 in the active area aa may be set according to actual needs. According to the arrangement pattern of the sources 30, the gates 40, and the drains 50, along the first direction, the electrode located at the center of the arrangement may be a source 30 or a drain 50. As shown in
[0055] Further, referring to
[0056] Specifically, the length of each source 30 along the first direction y may be adaptively designed according to the heat dissipation requirements of the area where it is located. When the length of the m-th source along the first direction y Y.sub.m3Y.sub.h+2Y.sub.c, the source is provided with b rows of through holes 60 correspondingly, while the remaining sources, that is, when Y.sub.m<3Y.sub.h+2Y.sub.c, are provided with a rows of through holes. Generally, the sources on both sides of the central axis X are arranged symmetrically with respect to the central axis X, and the length of each source along the first direction y is also symmetrical with respect to the central axis X, then the through holes on both sides of the central axis X are arranged symmetrically with respect to the central axis X, to ensure that the distance between the through hole on each source of the entire device and the adjacent gate is kept as short as possible, and the current flow path of each device is as similar as possible, which thus ensures that all current flow paths of the entire device are short, and avoids affecting the radio frequency characteristics of the semiconductor device when the size of the source along the first direction y is large.
[0057] Exemplarily, the second source 30-2 and the third source 30-3 in
[0058] Therein, Y.sub.c is a distance between the opposite edges of the sources 30 and the through hole 60 located at both ends in the first direction y. Referring to
[0059] Furthermore, in addition to the heat dissipation requirements of the corresponding area, as for the length of the source 30 along the first direction y, it also needs to comprehensively consider the radio frequency characteristics of the semiconductor device and the requirements of the production process.
[0060]
[0061] Continuing referring to
[0062] Specifically, according to the above explanation, it can be known that the distance between the opposite edges of the source 30 and the through hole 60 in the first direction y determines the length of the current flow path. Therefore, the distance between the opposite edges of the source 30 and the through hole 60 in the first direction y should not be too large, and may be Y.sub.cHY.sub.h+Y.sub.c, the through holes are correspondingly set at the source, but they are not set arbitrarily, and it is necessary to ensure that the edge distances between all sources and through holes of the entire device satisfy Y.sub.cHY.sub.h+Y.sub.c to ensure that the semiconductor device has good radio frequency characteristics. In addition, when the source is provided with b rows of through holes, it may be that H=Y.sub.c, to make the distance between the edges of the through hole at the center of the arrangement and the opposite source the same as the distance between the through hole at the edge of the arrangement and the edge of the opposite source, to reduce the current flow path, ensure that the current path in the center is the same as the current path at the edge, and improve the radio frequency characteristics of the device.
[0063] In summary, taking the structure (a=1, b=2) shown in
[0064] Finally, in combination with
[0065] It should be understood that the embodiments of the present disclosure improve the performance of the semiconductor device from the perspective of structural design of the semiconductor device. The semiconductor devices include but are not limited to high-power gallium nitride High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMT) operating under high voltage and high current environments, Transistors with a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) structure on an insulating substrate, Gallium Arsenide (GaAs)-based transistors and Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MOSFETs), metal-insulating layer semiconductor field-effect transistors (Metal-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor, or MISFET), Double Heterojunction Field-Effect Transistors (DHFET), Junction Field-Effect Transistors (JFET), Metal-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MESFET), metal-insulating layer semiconductor Heterojunction Field-Effect Transistors (Metal-Semiconductor Heterojunction Field-Effect Transistor, or MISHFET) or other field-effect transistors.
[0066] It should be noted that the above are only the example embodiments of the present disclosure and the technical principles used. Those skilled in the art will understand that the present disclosure is not limited to the specific embodiments described herein. Various obvious changes, readjustments and substitutions can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, although the present disclosure has been described in detail through the above embodiments, the present disclosure is not limited to the above embodiments. Without departing from the concept of the present disclosure, the present disclosure may also include more other equivalent embodiments, and the scope of the present disclosure is determined by the scope of the appended claims.