Semiconductor device, power conversion device, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

Active Publication Date: 2018-06-28
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
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The present invention aims to provide a semiconductor device with stable withstand voltage characteristics, reduced turn-off loss, and improved controllability and blocking capability during turn-off. The device has a second buffer layer with a higher impurity concentration than the drift layer, which helps in reducing leakage current during turn-off while maintaining stable withstand voltage characteristics. The second buffer layer also has an energy level that acts as a recombination center, which further enhances the device's stability during operation. Overall, this invention provides a semiconductor device with improved performance and reliability.

Problems solved by technology

Such impurity concentration profiles of buffer layers in the semiconductor devices having the vertical structure have had various problems including poor controllability of a turn-off operation and reduction in blocking capability at a time of turn-off.

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[0187]FIG. 30 to FIG. 32 are cross-sectional views of the IGBT, PIN diode, and the RFC diode, each of which is the semiconductor device according to the embodiment 1 of the present invention. Each of FIG. 30 to FIG. 32 is the cross-sectional view along a cross section A2-A2 in the active cell area R1 illustrated in FIG. 4, and illustrates the configuration of the IGBT, the PIN diode, and the RFC diode in the active cell area R1 illustrated in FIG. 1 to FIG. 3. A cross section E-E in FIG. 31 corresponds to the horizontal axis of the depth in FIG. 27 to FIG. 29 described in the principle of present invention. The N− drift layers 14 illustrated in FIG. 30 to FIG. 32 are formed with an impurity concentration ranging from 1.0×1012 to 5.0×1014 cm−3 by using the FZ wafers prepared in the FZ (Floating Zone) method. In the IGBT illustrated in FIG. 30, the junction between the P base layer 9 and the N layer 11 is a main junction. In the PIN diode illustrated in FIG. 31 and the RFC diode illus...

embodiment 2

[0262]Described in the embodiment 2 is a result of the diode performance at a time of applying the various structure parameters and the conditions a) to e) described in the embodiment 1 to the N buffer layer 15 of the RFC diode illustrated in FIG. 32 (FIG. 52 to FIG. 60).

[0263]FIGS. 52 to 54 illustrate an N buffer layer 15 dependence in the snappy recovery operation of the RFC diode of withstand voltage 1200V class. The waveform in the snappy recovery operation at the temperature of −20° C. is as illustrated in FIG. 49. FIGS. 52 and 53 illustrate relationships between an operation temperature of VCC=1000V and Vsnap-off and QRR, respectively. FIG. 54 illustrates a relationship between QRR and VCC at the temperature of −20° C. In FIGS. 52 to 54, the characteristics of the first structure are plotted with black triangles, the characteristics of the second structure are plotted with black circles, and each plotted point is connected by solid line L54 and L55. The characteristics of the ...

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[0276]Described in the embodiment 3 is a result of the diode performance at the time of applying the various structure parameters and the conditions a) to e) described in the embodiment 1 to the N buffer layer 15 of the PIN diode illustrated in FIG. 31(FIG. 61 to FIG. 63).

[0277]The evaluation device whose diode performance is illustrated in FIG. 61 to FIG. 63 is a PIN diode of withstand voltage 4500V class. FIG. 61 to FIG. 63 also illustrates the diode performance of the conventional structures 1 and 2 for comparison, and the impurity profiles of the conventional structures 1 and 2 are already illustrated in FIG. 33. A cross mark in FIG. 61 to FIG. 63 indicates a point at which the device has been broken.

[0278]FIG. 61 illustrates a snappy recovery waveform of the PIN diode at a temperature of 25° C. in the PIN diode of withstand voltage 4500V class. The other switching conditions are VCC=3600V, JF=0.1 JA, dj / dt=280 A / cm2 μs, dV / dt=23000V / μs, and Ls=2.0 μH. A horizontal axis in FIG. ...

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Abstract

The present invention has an object of, in a semiconductor device having a vertical structure, providing stable withstand voltage characteristics, reducing a turn-off loss with reduction in leakage current at a time of turn-off, and improving a controllability of a turn-off operation and a blocking capability at a time of turn-off.A buffer layer includes a first buffer layer being joined to an active layer and having one peak point of an impurity concentration and a second buffer layer being joined to the first buffer layer and a drift layer, having at least one peak point of an impurity concentration, and having a maximum impurity concentration lower than that of the first buffer layer, and the maximum impurity concentration of the second buffer layer is higher than the impurity concentration of the drift layer and equal to or lower than 1.0×1015 cm−3.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONField of the Invention[0001]The present invention relates to a semiconductor device including a power semiconductor element such as an IGBT and a diode.Description of the Background Art[0002]Conventional vertical semiconductor devices such as trench-gate IGBTs and PIN diodes have a vertical-structure area. In an IGBT, an area which includes an n-type drift layer, an n-type buffer layer, and a p-type collector layer constitutes the vertical-structure area, and in a diode, an area including an n-type drift layer, an n-type buffer layer, and an n+ cathode layer constitutes the vertical-structure area. International Publication No. 2014 / 054121 discloses the IGBT having the vertical structure.[0003]The conventional vertical semiconductor device having the vertical-structure area such as IGBTs or diodes adopts, in some cases, wafers manufactured by FZ method instead of wafers manufactured by epitaxial growth as Si wafers from which the semiconductor devices are ...

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IPC IPC(8): H01L29/06H01L29/739H01L29/868H01L29/10H01L29/36H01L21/265H01L21/324
CPCH01L29/0615H01L29/7397H01L29/868H01L29/1004H02M7/537H01L21/26513H01L21/324H01L29/66348H01L29/6609H01L29/36H01L29/0611H01L29/0684H01L29/66325H01L29/7393H01L29/861H01L29/0619H01L29/0834H01L29/1095H01L29/407H01L29/417H01L29/4238H01L29/8611
InventorNAKAMURA, KATSUMI
OwnerMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP