CA1142271A - Field effect semiconductor device - Google Patents

Field effect semiconductor device

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CA1142271A
CA1142271A CA000347291A CA347291A CA1142271A CA 1142271 A CA1142271 A CA 1142271A CA 000347291 A CA000347291 A CA 000347291A CA 347291 A CA347291 A CA 347291A CA 1142271 A CA1142271 A CA 1142271A
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Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure A semiconductor device having a first field-effect device provided in and on a first substrate at a first major surface thereof. The first substrate is of a first conductivity type (except in selected regions), due to the pressure of a first dopant. A plurality of such selected regions intersect the first major surface in a first major surface. The field-effect device comprises a first field-effect device channel region which is located at least in part, in the first substrate. A pair of first field-effect device terminating regions each being of a second conductivity type are each located in one of the selected regions intersecting the first major surface portion such that they are separated by the first field-effect device channel region. A pn junction separates each member of the first field-effect device terminating region pair from remaining portions of the first substrate. The first field-effect device terminating region pair has a second dopant distrib-uted in each member leading to the second conductivity type. The device includes a first field-effect device control gate region which is separated from the first major surface portion by a first insulating layer of a first thickness and located across the first insulating layer from the first field-effect device channel region. The device further includes a first field-effect device shield region separated from the first major surface by a second insulating layer of a second thickness and located across the second insulating layer from substantially all of the member pn junctions where these member pn junctions intersect the first major surface.

Description

~i42271 FIELD EFFECT SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is related to the fabrication and structure of field-effect transistor devices for electrical sig-nal control and switching, particularly analog signals, and more particularly, to the geometry and other material properties of the field-effect transistor device design for a field-effect ~ transistor device analog signal switch, and the fabrication : thereof.
The field-effect transistor has certain attributes ;~ which are attractive for analog signal switching. The first .
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of these is that a field-effect transistor can be a bilater-al device so that, for AC signal switching, the field-effect transistor appears to have the same output characteristics whatever the voltage polarities are at which the designate~
source and drain regions in the device ha~pened to be operated at during any point in an AC voltage cycle. Fur-ther, there is no offset voltage in the source-drain volt-~mpere characteristics of a common source operated field-effect transistor as there is in the collector volt-ampere characteristic of 2 common emitter operated bipolar transistor.

A problem with the field-effect transistor for use as an analog signal switch exists, however, in that the "on"
condition resistance between the drain &nd source of the field-effect transistor is typically quite a bit higher than that experienced, for instance in the output of a bipolar transistor. Such an ~on" condition drain-to-source resis-tance, or channel resistance, has deleterious effects on switching operations. First, this resistance increases the power ~issipation occurring in the switch when in the ~on"
condition, a situation which is particularly troub~esome if the field-effect transistor device is to be used as a power device carrying substantial currents in the "on" condition.
Secondly, this ~on" condition resistance slows the switching speed of the field-effect transistor-load combination limiting the usefulness of the switch for controlling rapid-ly changing analog signals.

For field-effect transistors formed in a semicon-ductor body, such as in Figure lA, the Uon~ condition drain-to-source resistance has been found to depend upon various material parameters of the materials used in the construction thereof, and upon the dimensions thereof; in ~14~

the latter instance, particularly, upon the effective width and length of the field-effect transistor device in the ~emiconductor material used. That is, the ~on" condition channel resistance is dependent upon the effective length of the channel between the sources and drains therein, and upon the effective width of the channel between sources and drains therein facing one another across the channel. The following relationship has been found:
~on ~/w.

As is also known, the "punch-through" voltage and the device switching time device parameters are each deter-mined substantially by the channel length, L, with both decreasing with decreasing L. Thus, one might conclude that channel length L in the stripe geometry transistor of Figure lA should be made as smal] as practically possible while ; increasina the channel width, w, to the extent necessary to achieve a satisfactorily small Pon. That is, one might keep tbe channel length as short as possible, consistent with the design layout rules required by the fabrication process and with the need to maintain an adeauate punch-through voltage minimum for operation in the "off" condition, and then extend the channel width until a satisfactory ~on" condition drain-to-source resistance is achieved. The result of this design criteria is sugqested in Figure ~B.

In Figures lA and lB, the source region, 10, is formed beneath, but intersectinq, a planar major surface of semiconductor material body, this surface supporting an insulating layer thereover. The source region is also marked by S. A cut or opening, ll, in the insulating layer is shown to accommodate an electrical contact to source 10, ~nd this contact is shown made by an external 11 ~ 2 ~

interconnection means, 12, in Pigure lA. Theee need not be an external connector, however, as source region 10 may be extended to other regions in the semiconductor material body to thereby provide its own interconnection. No such exter-nal interconnection is shown in Figure 18 where ~ource 10 is indicated to extend indefinitely until some value of w is reached which provides a suitably small ~on" condition chan-nel resistance. Again, however, between solid lines, region 11 is shown in Figure lB to accommodate an externa~
interconnection means.

- A drain regi~n, 13, is shown in Figures lA and lB
and marked with a D. Again, a cut or opening, 14, is shown for providing a connection to source 13 via this opening by an external interconnection means, 15, by way of example.
In Figure lB, again the drain region 13 shown to extend indefinitely until a satisfactory w dimension is reached to provide a sufficiently small ~on.

Figutes lA and lB each have a gate structure, 16, beeween source region 10 and drain region 13. Structure 16 may either be a ~ate conductor for a MOSFET, separated therefrom by an insulating layer, or structure 16 may be part of an interconnection means foe electrically connecting to the gate region provided in a JFET.

Thus, Figure lB represents a possible method for increasing the channel width w to the extent necessary to reduce the ~on" condition channel resistance. However, the efficacy of such a structure must be questioned for use as an analog signal switch because the long gate leads, and perhaps the source and drain leads, introduce added resis-tance which has a negative effect on the switching time and which increases power dissipation. Further, such a struc-114ZZi 1 ture will take up area in a major surface when formed in a monolithic integrated circuit with no indication that the area is being consumed optimally.

Using up such area in a major surface of a mono-S lithic integrated circuit is an expensive proposition.
Experience has shown that the yield of operable inteqrated circuit chips from the fabrication process for a given mono-lithic integrated circuit is inversely proportional to the area of the major surface taken up by that monolithic integrated circuit. The cost, then, for a sood monolithic integrated circuit chi~ is inversely proportional to the number of such chips formed in a wafer times the yield, with the result that the cost becomes proportional to the s~uare of the area taken up in the major surface of the monolithic lS integrated circuit chip.
., , Thus, when considering the production of a mono-lithic integrated circuit chip, there is an extreme impor-tance attached to the minimizing of the area of the major surface reauired therein. For field-effect transistor devices fabricate~ at a major surface of a monolithic inteqrated circuit, the minimization of the area of this ma~or surface devoted to such field-effect transistor devices, for a given "on" channel resistance, is equivalent to minimization of the "on" con~ition channel resistance-device area product (RonA~ This is because the Ron peoduct ultimately determines the size of the monolithic integrated circuit chip major surface required to accommo-date such fieid-effect transistor devices. ~inimizing the field-effect device surface area used for a given ~on" con-3Q dition channel resistance also serves to minimize the gate area over the channel region, which improves switching speed , . .

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by reducinq both gate means resistance and the capacitances associated therewith.

Figure lC shows an alternative way to effectively increase the channel width while maintaining the channel length as small as possible. That is, rather than having a single long source, a single long drain, and a single long gate, there are provided multiple sources, drains, and gates repeated in a stripe effect pattern. ~his essentially represents dividing the structure of Figure lB several times and placing the resulting portions side by side.

Another geometrical layout which seeks to further reduce the RonA product beyond that reduction achieved by the structure of Figure lC is shown in U.S. Patent 3,783,349 to ~easom. The Beasom reference discloses arranging rectan-gular or scuare source and drain regions in a semiconductor material body, separated by surfaces in the body major sur-face associated with gate portions, to form a grid or rect-angular mesh arrangement having the sources and drain regions along intersections or centers of a grid pattern formed by sets of perpendicular lines. A portion of the essence of the pattern in the Beasom reference is repeated in Figure 2 herein.

Source regions intersecting the surface of the semiconductor material body in Figure 2 are again marked with S and by the numeral 10. The drain reqions on the semiconductor material body are again marked with D and by the numeral 13. The portions of Figure 2 associated with the gate regions are again marked with the letter G and by the numeral 16. Once again, the device of Figure 2 is assumed to hzve an insulating layer over a semiconAuctor material body leading to the source and drain regions being -~ 2 ~

shown in dashed lines. No interconnection means for the sources and drains are shown. Those portions of the source and drain regions which electrical contact would be made are shown by the solid line openings which are again marked by S the numerals 11 and ]4.

A further design geometry for this purpose is shown in ~.S. Patent 4,015,278 to Fukuta. In this situa-tion, the sources are shown in the aeometrical form of a letter ~Y~ while the drains are shown in geometrical form of a hexagon.
These alternative geometrical designs for field-effect transistors do indeed ap~ear to aid in reducing the RonA product from the initially shown geometrical design layouts of Figures lA and 1~ for the various layout lS criteria. However, further i~provements in the reduction of ,~ the RonA product are most desirabl,e, especially where the field-effect transistor device is to be formed in a mono~
lithic integrated circuit and be capable of controlling sub-stantial currents therethrough without overheating the mono-lithic integrated ci~cuit chip.
A further consideration for using a field-effect transistor in an analog switching situation is the ability thereof to withstand reverse bias voltages of substantial magnitude. That is, the device should have a substantial minimum punch-through voltage an~ a substantial minimumn breakdown voltage. This is difficult to achieve, particu-larly for devices used in monolithic integrated circuits.

SUMMA~Y OF THE INVENTION

A field-effect transistor device is provided capa-ble of withstanding a substantial reverse bias voltage by using shield electrodes adjacent to the semiconductor mate-l~ZZ7~

rial source or drain region portions~, i.e., channel terminating regions, or both. These may he semiconductor material source and drain regions having dopant concentrations therein such as to permit substantial depletion thereof under reverse bias before breakdown or to otherwise alter the electric field in the depletion region. Such.s-hield electrodes will, in some instances, be connected to the gate electrode of the field-effect transistor device.
Further, portions of the field-effect transistor device involved in the gate region can serve to separate triangular areas formed in a densely packed matrix structure to provide a low "on" condition channel resistance. A
method for cons.tructing one such field-effect device having both a gate region and a shi`eld region therein is disclosed where these regions provide self-alignment of various portions of the source and drain regions.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a semi-conductor device containing therei`n a firs:t field-effect device provided in and on a first substrate at a first major surface thereof, said first sub-strate being of a first conducti~ity type, except in selected regions thereof, due to a fi`rst`dopant being distri~uted therein, there being a plurality of said selected regions intersecting said first major surface in a first major surface porti`on, said field-effect device comprising: a first field-effect 2a device channel region located at least in part in said first substrate; a pair of firs.t field-effect device terminating regions each.being of a second conductivity type and each ~.eing located in one of said s:elected regions intersecting said first major surface portion such that they are separated by said firæt field-effect device channel region, there ~eing a pn junction separating each.member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair from remaining portions of said first substrate, said first field-effect device terminating regi`on pair haying a second dopant distrihuted in each memb.er leading to said second conductiYity type; a first field-effect device control gate region separated from said first major surface portion by a first 3Q ins.ulating layer of a fi`rs.t thickne~s and located across said first insulating layer from sai~d fi~s.t fi~eld-ef~ect deyi.ce channel region; a first field-effect ~142271 device shield region separated ~rom said first major surface by a second insulating layer of a second thickness and located across said second insulat-ing layer from substantially all of both said member pn junctions where these said member pn junctions intersect said first ma~or surface portion, said second thickness exceeding said first thickness by at leas.t a quarter of said first thickness..
In accordance with the present invention, there is further provided a semiconductor device containing therein a first field-effect device provid-ed in and on a first substrate at a first major surface thereof, said first 10. s.ubstrate b.eing of a firs:t conductivity type, except in s.elected regions thereof, due to a first dopant b.eing dis-trib.uted therein, there being a plurali~ty of said selected regions- interse-ting said first major surface in a first major surface portion, said field-efect device comprising: a first field-effect device channel region located at least in part in said first subs*rate; a pair of first field-effect device terminating regions each being of a second conductivity type and each b.eing located in one of said selected regions inters~ecting said first major portion such that they are separated by said first field-effect device channel region, there being a pn junction separating each.member of said first field-effect device terminating region 20. pair from remaining portions oP said first substrate, said first field-effect devi`ce terminating region pair haying a second dopant distrihuted in each member leading to s:aid s.econd conductivity type, there being at least one member of said firs.t field-effect deyice ter~inating region pair formed as a compos.ite of portions including a member region central portion and a member region enclosing porti`on where s.aid member region enclosing portion is con-tiguous:with and entirely s.urrounds s:aid member region central portion in said first major surface portion, said member region central portion having a conductivity occurring therein exceeding that occurring in s~aid member region enclosing portion; a irst field-effect deYice control gate region separated 3~ from s~ai.d firs.t ~ajor surface portion by a irst inaulating layer of a first th`~c~ness~and located acros.s said firs~t ins.ulati`ng layer from said first field-efect deyi~ce channel regi`on; a irs.~t fi`eld-effect devi~e shield regi~on f~. - 8a -~42Z71 separated from said first major surface by a second insulating layer of a second thickness and located across said second insulating layer from substantially all of that said member pn junction formed as a composite of portions where this said member pn junction intersects said f;rst major sur-face portion.
In accordance with the present invention, there is further provided a method for constructing a field-effect transistor device at an outer major surface of a first semiconductor material ~ody of a first conductivity type, said method comprising: providing a first electrical insulating layer of a first thickness on said outer major s.urface, at least at a first major sur-face portion, said first insulating layer having a first insulating layer major surface on a s.~de thereof oppos:ite that side thereof which is in con-tact with.said first major s.urface portion; providing a first gate region on at least a portion of said firs* insulating layer ma~or surface acros~s said first insulating layer from les:s than all of said first major s.urface portion;
providing at least two lesser conductivity terminating region portions of a second conducti~ity-type in said semiconductor material ~ody intersecting said first major surface portion and spaced apart in said firs.t major surface por-tion to thereb.y form at least t~o s.paced apart intersection surfaces in said 2Q outer major surface, tfiere ~.eing pn junctions resulting a~out each of said les:ser conductivity terminating region portions separating these regions from remaining portions;of said first semiconductor material body with.these said pn juncti`ons. intersecti`ng said first major surface portion to form a boundary a~.out each of said intersecti`on surfaces in said first major surface portion, sai~d fi`rst gate region ~.eing directly~acros~ s.aid first insulating layer from that space in said first major surface portion separating said two intersec-tion surfaces:; providing a second electrical insulating layer of a second thicknes.~on sai~d firs* gate region and extending beyond said first gate region to ~e across-from substantially all of each.said les.aer conductivity 30~ terminati`ng region portian, sai~d second insulating layer having a second in-~ulati`ng layer ma.~or surface on a si`de tfie~eof opposite that side thereof which is in contact wi~th sai~d first gate region; providing a firat shield 8b -11~227i~
region on at least a portion of said s.econd insulating layer major surface across from said first gate region and across from each of said le&ser conduc-tivity terminating region portions-, but across from less than all of each of ~.
said lesser conductivity terminating region portions-at least hy virtue of a plurality of openings each provided through said first shield region and across from a contact surface located entirely within each said intersection surface; and proyiding higher conductivity terminating region portions of said second conductivity type in said s:emiconductor material body intersect-ing said first major surface portion at each.of said contact surfaces across from each corresponding said opening in said first shield region, said higher conductivity-terminating region portions having a conductivity occurring tfierein exceeding that occurring in those said lesser conductivity terminating region portions remaining after said providing of said higher conductivity terminating region portions.
Brief`Des:cription of the Drawinga Figures lA, lB and lC show field~effect transiator device aource, drain and gate geometrical arrangements known in the prior art, Pigure 2 s~ows:a fi`eld_effect trans:istor device source, drain and gate geometri~cal arrangement known in the prior art, 20. Pigures3A, 3B, and 3C sho~ various. field-effect transistor device source, drain and gate geometrical arrangements, Figure 4 sho~s a graph of the "on" condition channel resistance-device area product versus channel length.for three field-effect transistor device s:ource, drain and gate geometrical arrangements, Figure 5 sfio~s a graph of estimated relatiye costs - 8c --- -' 114~271 of theee field-effect teansistor device source, drain and gate geometrical arrangements, Figure 6 shows a field-effect transistor device, Fiqure 7 shows a portion of the field-effect tran-S sistor device of ~igure 6, Figure 8 shows a cross section of a portion of one version of the field-effect transistor device of Figure 7, . Figure 9 shows the cross section of a portion of another version of the fie~d-effect transistor device of ~igure 7, Figure 10 shows a cross section of a portion of a version of a field-effect transistor device that can with-stand a substantial reverse bias voltage, Figure 11 shows a cross section of a portion of another version of a field-effect transistor device that can ; also withstand a substantial reverse bias voltage, Figure 12 shows a cross section of a portion of another version of a field-effect transistor device that can also withstand a substantial reverse bias voltage, Fiqures 13A, l~B and 13D show a cross section of other versions of a field-effect transistor device that can also withstand a substantial reverse bias voltage while Fig-ure 13C shows a ~artial circuit schematic for operating the devices of the immediately preceding listed figures and Fig-ure 13E is a graph comparing a characteristic between the devices of the immediately preceding listed figures, Figures 14A, 14B and 14C show a cross section of other versions of a field-effect transistor device that can also withstand a substantial reverse bias voltage while Fig-ure 14D is a graph comparing a characteristic between the devices of the immediately preceding listed figures, Figures 15A, lSB and 15C show a cross section of other versions of a field-effect device that can also with-: ' ~

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stand a substantial reverse bias voltage, and Figure 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F and 16G show the results of steps in a method for fabricating a field-effect transistor device of the kind shown in Figure 14C.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The effect of the geometrical arrangement in the present invention of the source and drain regions in a field-effect transistor device for the purpose o$ decreasing the characterizing RonA product below that achieved in prior art structures can be shown by a mathematical model representing possible geometrical arrangements generally. Then, mani-pulation of that model may permit finding better geometrical arrangements. Understanding and attacking the problem of field-effect transistor device design for devices suitable for handling substantial power in a monolithic integrated circuit, or other small structure, in this manner does not appear to have occurred in the prior art and so the results are not found there either.
The problem of minimization of the RonA product of a surface field-effect transistor device has been found to be directly analogous to the problçm of densely packing two-dimensional figures on a plane. This is 80 because the urface field-effect transistor device formed at the major surface of a semiconductor material body is essentially a ~5 two-dimensional device. That is, given a specific "on"
condition channel resistance which must not be exceeded, minimize the area taken up by the geometrical arrzngement of the field-effect transistor device in the major planar surface of the semiconductor material body containing the device.

~42271 The value for the effective channel length ~, as earlier indicated, is to be kept as small as possible for reasons of aiding in minimizing both switching speed and "on" condition channel resistance minimization. The value of L fianlly chosen is, of course, subject to the construction of satisfying the design layout rules with regard to minimum spacings, as required by the process used to fabricate the field-effect transistor device, and of satisfying the minimum punch-through voltage requirement for the transistor when operated in the "off" condition. Thus, the value of L
is not subject to being varied for the purposes of reducing device area leaving, as earlier indicated, the effective channel width w to be varied for these purposes. In these circumstances, the problem of minimizing the RonA product for the device can be restated as selecting the effective channel width w dimension necessary to obtain a satisfactorily small "on" condition channel resistance, and then minimizing the area of the resulting field-effect transistor device.
Of course, the effective channel width w is subject to the same fabrication process dictated design layout rules mentioned in connection with channel length.
The layout shown in Figures lA, B, and C is based on only the lowest order two-dimensional point symmetry group in the group theory of two-dimensional lattice geometrical figures. The geometrical arrangement shown in Figure 2 makes use of a higher order point symmetry group, four-fold rotational symmetry.
However, from group theory, the problem above has as solutions the point groups 2, 4mm, 6mm, and 2mm (i.e., geometrical figures possessing rotational symmetries of one-, two-, three-, four-, and six-fold). Since surface related ' 1~22n~

field-effect transistor devices inherently possess a two-fold symmetry themselves, only those groups which can be decomposed into a two-fold and n-fold axis are actual solutions of the problem. Thus, not only are layouts possessing two-fold and four-fold rotational symmetry satisfactory solutions to the problem, but also layouts possessing six-fold rotational symmetry represent proper, densely packed device arrangement solutions. In practice, since one layer of metal must have a two-fold or lower symmetry, these layouts must be implemented with rectangles for the four-fold symmetry case, as shown for a device portion in Figure 2, or with triangles for the six-fold symmetry case, a portion of which is shown in Figure 3A.
The device portion shown in Figure 3A again has source and drain regions, shown by dashed lines, formed in a ; semiconductor material body and intersecting 8 major surface thereof which surface supports an insulating layer. The intersection in the major surface of the source and drain regions provide densely packed triangular surface portions in the major surface. The triangular surface portions are shown as equilateral triangles which are preferred though not necessary. Figure 3A again has the source regions 10 marked with an S. Drain regions 13 are again marked with a D, and finally, the gate regions 16 are again marked with a G. Small solid line triangles are shown where electrical contact would be made to the source and drain regions by the source interconnection means and the drain interconnection mèans, respectively.

ll422n The long dashed lines along the separating surfaces between the source and drain triangular surface portions, forming the mesh network in the triangular mesh associated with the gate in Figure 3A, provide extended triangles around each of the triangular surface portions representing a source or a drain. These extended triangles include an associated part of the gate mesh with each source and drain triangular surface portion. When these larger triangular surface portions are considered in relation to one another, the extended triangles ~shown here as equilateral triangles just as are the triangular surface portions of the source and drain regions) make clear the six-fold rotation symmetry in forming a densely packed hexagonal matrix structure.
Similarly, long dashed lines have been added in Figure 2 to form extended quadrilateral surfaces, actually squares, in the rectangular mesh, or square mesh, shown there. These larger square portions make clear the four-fold rotational symmetry in forming a densely packed rectangular matrix structure.
To determine the relative merits of the various layouts possible within the bounds of the group theoretical solutions indicated above, the RA product must be evaluated for each. To do so, the assumption is made that each field-effect transistor device associated with an evaluated layout will be operating in the linear region at small values of drain to source voltage, VDs. The well-known equation for the "on" condition channel resistance for a MOSFET, as an example, is given by the following expression:

Leff Ron Weff~Cox(vGs T

~142271 The meanings of the symbols used in the foregoing equation are the following:
Ron Q "on" condition channel resistance.
L Q channel length.
weff~ effective channel width.
Cox ~ capacitance per unit area of gate-oxide capacitor.
~ Q mobility of channel carriers.
- VGs ~ gate to source voltage.
VT ~ threshold voltage.
To proceed with the analysis, the RonA product is now found by first substituting for weffr in the foregoing equation, the value obtained therefor from the unit cell in each of the layouts shown in Figures lC, 2, and 3A which represent the layout solutions found within the bounds of lS the group theory set out above. The unit cells in these three figures each represent the associated minimum dimension basic cell for each of the layouts therein, respectively, as d-termined by the group theory used. Finding the RonA
product for the layout in each of Figures lC, 2, and 3 ZO is then completed by multiplying the associated version of the foregoing equation--now containing the appropriate substitution for weff--by the area o~ the corresponding unit ; cell.
The following equations are obtained for the geometrical arrangements shown in Figures lC, 2, and 3:

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L (L I w ~ 2d) (R~nA)Fig lC ~COX (VGS ~ VT) L (L + WC + 2d) ( on Fig. 2 ~COX 2 (WC + 2d)(VGS ~ VT)
2(3)1/2L[ ~ + d + L12 (ROnA)Fig~ 3A ~COX [WC + 2(3)1/2d](VGS - VT) In these equations, WC represents the width of the electrical contact made by the interconnection means to each of the source and drain region major surface portions, while d represents the minimum required spacing between the electrical contacts and the edge of the channel in each of the source and drain region ma,or surface portions.
The meaning of the last three equations resulting for the RonA products of the layouts in Figures lC, 2, and 3A
can be seen by comparing the equation values when a defined parameter representing the effective channel width per source or drain region, (WC + 2d), is varied with respect to the effective channel length L. In the limit where the channel width parameter is much greater than the channel length, i.e. (WC I 2d)~>L, the RonA product representing the perpendicular lines-of-centers grid of Figure 2, ~RonA)Fig 2' approaches being one half of the RonA product for the repeated stripe geometry of Figure lC, ~RonA)Fig. lC fo values of wc, d, and L. On the other hand, the RonA product for the triangular mesh of Figure 3A, (RonA)Fig 3A~ shows the improvement achieved by the present invention in being but a third of that for the repeated stripe layout geometry of Figure lC~ To restate, the following results are obtained in the desired situation of using as short as possible channel lengths:

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For the same equations, when (WC + 2d) is approxi-mately equal to ~ the RA products for all three of the layouts of Figures lC, 2, and 3A are nearly equal. Finally, when (WC + 2d) is much less than L. the layout of Figure 1 turns out to have the lowest RonA product.
This relationship is shown by the graph in Figure 4 where the RonA product fo~ each of the layouts in Figures lC, 2, and 3A are plotted as a function of channel length L.
The RonA product has been normalized by the factor ~C0x (VGs-VT) and the assumption has been made that the layout rules permit WC = 5~m and d ~ 6~m. The result shown by these equations in Figure 4 is that the triangular mesh, i.e. the densely packed hexagonal matrix structure of Figure 3A, has the smaller RonA product when the channel length becor.es relatively small, a situation indicated above to be most desirable. This is, of course, achieved with the size of the source and drain regions having been chosen no more than reasonably large enough to meet the limitations in the fabrication process typically used in manufacturing mono-lithic inteqrated circuits.
Of course, since monolithic integrated circuit layout rules ~or minimum 6pacings will tend to dictate the relative minimum ~ize of each unit cell for each of the layouts in Figures iC, 2, and 3A, practical layouts may not be able to achieve the full potential reduction in the RA
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the minimization problem above. Thus, there is a possibility, for instance, that the four-fo'd symmetry group represented in the Figure 2 layout might possess a lower RonA product in practice than does the six-fold symmetry group structure S represented in Figure 3A, even for a relatively small channel length, despite the relationships of Figure 4. Thus, necessarily, any relative result among the foregoing solutions must be examined by a simulated or an actual test structure before choosing among them.
For instance, the foregoing analysis of the Figures lC, 2, and 3A arrangements has proceeded on the assumption that, in each instance, the interconnection means for electrically interconnecting the source and drain regions can be ignored in the analysis. If this is not the case, possibly because the minimum spacing rules might reguire, for one layout as opposed by the others, an interconnection means, having relatively thin leads therein leading to a relatively high interconnection means resistance. Then the relative merits of two layouts, such as the Figures 2 and 3A
layouts, might be just reversed from that concluded in the above analysis. However, in both theory and practice, the triangular mesh layout of Figure 3A has proved to have a smaller surface area in the monolithic integrated circuit for a given "on" condition channel resistance than does the perpendicular lines-of-center grid layout of Figure 2. In fact, the interconnection means resistance can even be relatively lower in the triangular mesh layout of Figure 3A
than in the perpendicular lines-of-center grid layout of Figure 2.

' -Earlier, the relationship was noted that cost was typically proportional to the square of the area taken up in the major surface in a monolithic integrated circuit. Figure 5 shows a plot of relative costs in terms of indices, the plot being made on the basis of the repeated stripe layout of Figure lC being the base cost. Note that the selection of the least cost layout clearly depends on the channel length chosen in connection with a particular layout for fixed values of WC and d. For a channel length of 7.5 ~m, the perpendicular lines-of-centers grid of Figure 2 can be expected to cost approximately 50% of the cost of the repeated stripe layout of Figure lC while the triar;gular mesh layout would be expected to cost but 37% of the Figure lC layout. Again, these costs assume that analysis used in the above equations is not compromised in practice by layout rules leading to relatively high resistance interconnection paths for one layout as opposed to the other.
An alternate field-effect transistor device, also based on use of a densely packed hexagonal matrix structure, is shown in Figure 3B. This version can also provide a both low "on" condition channel resistance and a low resistance in the metallization runs of the source and drain interconnection means, respectively. Further, the metallization shown in Figure 3B can be provided in the pattern shown more easily than the pattern for the version shown in Figure 3A in at least some metallization processes.
In the arrangement of Figure 3B, the source region triangular surface portions 10 are within, and coincide with, the triangular gate surface portions 16. The drain region mesh surface portions 13 form a mesh pattern having triangular /~
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openings wherein the source and gate region surface portions are contained. Thus, latter regions are densely packed in a hexagonal matrix structure in the surface of the device shown in Figure 3B, where the regions just mentioned are S provided below a passivating layer covering the device.
Figure 3B has source regions 10 again marked with a S and drain region 13 again marked with a D. Finally, gate: regions 16 are again marked with a G. The solid line, and smallest, triangles represent openings in the insulating layer where electrical contact would be made to source regions 10 by the source interconnection means. The parallel solid lines define openings in the insulating layer where electrical contact would be made to drain region 13 by the drain interconnection means. A further layer of interconnection means is required to electrically interconnect gate regions 16. Openings for such connections are not shown in Figure 3B.
To avoid needing another interconnection means layer for electrically interconnecting the separated gate regions shown in Figure 3B, the structure of Figure 3C can be used to join, in the semiconductor material, the gate regions around the source region to thereby form a plurality of rows of joined gate regions. ~his provides the possibility of a single contiguous gate region in the semiconductor material if these rows are also joined in the material, or if not, at least no gate interconnections are required beyond those needed for interconnecting the rows. Other than the interconnecting of gate regions 16 in the semiconductor material in Figure 3C, the structure shown in this figure is substantially that shown in structure in Figure 3B.

~. '' ' The choice of what is designated as source regions 10 in Figures 3B and 3C--the region having triangular surface portions--as opposed to choosing drain regions 13 to have triangular surface portions is arbitrary. That is, the regions 13 marked with a D and the regions 10 marked with a S could have these markings interchanged so that the drain regions are the triangular surface portions and 80 that the source regions form a mesh surface portion surrounding the gate and drain triangular surface portions, respectively.
Choosing the structure shown in Figure 3C for analysis, a unit cell has been shown there of the same nature and in the same manner as the unit cells shown in each of Figures lC, 2, and 3A. The RonA product for the layout of Figure 3C then is given as follows:
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. 1/2 L[3L + 3dl + 2d2 + (32 WC1 + wc2]
~ICOX6[2(3)1/2L + 2(3)1/2d1 + WC11 (VGS - VT) t2(3) 1/2L + 2~3)1/2dl + WC1 + ~ wd].

In these equations L again represents the distance across the gate region while wd represents the width across the drain region arm. The symbols wcl and wc2 are the contact opening dimensions for source regions 10 and drain regions 13, respectively. The distances dl and d2 represent distances remaining in the source and drain regions outside the associated contact openings, respectively.

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If the analysis of this last equation is pursued, one finds that the performance of the structure in Figure 3C
is approximately that of the structure shown in Figure 3A
with respect to the performance of the structure shown in Figure lC. Hence, the densely packed hexaqonal matrix structure of Figure 3A is approximately equal in the device performance to the structures shown in Figures 3B and 3C.
: Figure 6 shows a top view of a field-effect transistor device of the present invention, related to Figure 3A, without a passivating layer present over the source and drain interconnection means. Although the triangular surface portions resulting from the intersection in the semiconductor material body major surface of several source and drain regions are shown in Figure 6, the few shown there should not necessarily be taken as being indicative of the number of source and drain regions which will be provided in the actual usable device. ~ather, the number presented reflect the size which can be conveniently accommodated in the drawing. In actual use, there will usually be thousands of such triangular surface portions, often exceeding 50,000 in number.
The source interconnection means 12, typically formed with aluminum metal, is marked with a S as found in Figure lA. The drain interconnection means 15, again typically aluminum metal, is marked with a D as is also true in Figure lA.
The gate contact opening, 17, is marked with a G.
The extension from gate contact opening 17 over the gate portions of the field-effect transistor device is again designated by 16, as in Figure lA, and includes the entire .
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dashed line rectangle so marked but substantially excluding those portions oVer the triangular surface portions involving the source and drain regions. In a JFET, region 16 represents portions of the semiconductor body material which are of a conductivity type opposite that found in the source and drain regions. Region 16 could also be, in this instance, a conductor over, and making contact to, such JFET gate regions used when the gate resistance is to be minimized.
In a MOSFET, region 16 represents gate conductive material on an underlying insulating layer, usually silicon dioxide, which separates the semiconductor material body and the gate conductive material layer 16. Typically, in this instance, the region 16 gate conductive material is either of polysilicon or of metal. Polysilicon would be chosen for the most compact design because the layout spacing rules can be tightened ; because there is less chance with polysilicon of shorts to the overlying metal layers involving the source and drain interconnection means. However, a metal for gate 16 would be chosen when fast switchinq speed is the primary desire because there is less lead resistance when metal is used therefor.
The triangular surface portions 10 in the major surface of the semiconductor material body due to the intersecting source regions, shown under a silicon dioxide insulating layer, are again each marked with a S in Figure 6 as the source region was in Figure lA. ~he triangular surface portions 13 due to the drain regions are each marked with a D as was the drain region in Figure lA. A further passivating layer, typically of doped silicon dioxide, would also be provided over the structure shown in Figure 6 but has been omitted here for clarity.

-The portion of Figure 6 contained in the closed wavey line is shown again, for the most part, in Figure 7 for a MOSFET device. The same numeral designations are retained in Figure 7 as have been used in Figure 6. Contact cuts through the insulating layer disposed bet~een the source and drain interconnection means and the semiconductor material body to accommodate electrical contacts to the source and drain regions below by these interconnection means are shown on Figure 7. These contact cuts are identified in Figure 7, 10 as they were in Figure lA, as source contact cuts 11 and drain contact cuts 14.
~ section line, 18, is shown in Figure 7 and the corresponding section portion is shown in Figure 8.-Again, the same numerals have been retained in Figure 8 lS as were used in Figures 6 and 7. A phosphosilicate glass passivating layer, 20, has been added in Figure 8 which is not present in Figure 6 and 7. A silicon dioxide insulating ; region, 19, protects the gate and separates it from the semiconductor material body major surface.
The n-type conductivity drain region associated with the triangular surface portion 13 is typically provided by a phosphorus dopant through diffusion or implantation in the silicon semiconductor material body, 21, where the dopant reaches the concentration of approximately 1018 atoms/cm3. The source region associated with surface portion 10 is similarly provided. The semiconductor material body outside of the source and drain regions is typically of p-type conductivity due to a boron dopant therein to the extent of approximately 2 x 1015 atoms/cm3. A typical spacing between the source and drain regions, as indicated ,~
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earlier, would be 7.5~m. A typical separation between the semiconductor material body in 21 and the gate would be 1, OOOA.
An MOS device can be built somewhat differently than shown in Figure 8 by having the gate 16 remain as shown but having the source region 10 and the drain rcgion 13 provided by a doped polysilicon deposition on the major surf-ace of the semiconductor material body immediately adjacent the gate. In this situation, there would not be substantial doped regions provided in the semiconductor material body to serve as source and drain regions.
Figure 9 shows the JFET configuration corresponding to Figures 6 and 7, again retaining the same numeral designa-tions for common or similar structural portions. Now, however, the semiconductor material body 21 represents an ;~ n-type conductivity silicon epitaxial layer doped with 1015 atoms/cm3 of phosphorus, formed over a p-type conductivity silicon substrate, 22, doped with 5 x 1014 atoms/cm3 of boron.
Layer 21 contains the source and drain regions forming the triangular surface portions at its major surface. These source and drain regions partly surround the gate region 16 so that then drain and source regions are continuous below gate region 10, i.e. are contiguous with one another. Gate region 16 is formed by doping with boron to the extent of 1018 atoms/cm3.
Another layer of metal, 23, is shown in Figure 9 by dashed lines as a gate electrical connector to the gate region 16 surface which, in ohmic contact with the surface of region 16, could alternatively be used to reduce gate 11~22'71 resistance rather than using the gate region in the semi-conductor body as the sole gate interconnection means. If the region in layer 21 serving as the gate region were eliminated, metal layer 23 in rectifying contact with layer 21 would serve to define the gate region 16 in a Schottky barrier field-effect transistor device.
As indicated in the foregoing, a desirable field-effect transistor device will not only have a low "on"
channel resistance, but also, the device must be able to stand a substantial voltage between the effective drain and the effective source, (punch-through voltage) and between the effective drain and the substrate (breakdown voltage), when the device is in the "off" condition. This is particularly true for field-effect transistor device used as switches or controllers in power circuits involving substantial voltages.
To obtain a substantial punch-through voltage capability, one could, of course, increase the effective channel length of the device. However, this has substantial ; disadvantages, as indicated above, in connection with the "on" condition channel resistance and the switching speed.
Further, this expedient does little to improve the breakdown voltage across the drain-to-substrate pn junction. This breakdown voltage is affected by the doping levels occurring in the source and drain regions partly which determines the immobile charge electric field contribution to breakdown, and by the resulting geometrical shapes of these regions in that curvature thereof can significantly increase the effective electric field for a given potential to thereby hasten the onset of breakdown.

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Further, the gate region can considerably modify the punch-through and breakdown voltages from what they would be in the absence of this gate region. These modifica-tions are due to such phenomena as hot carrier injection into gate insulating layers, concentration of surface field lines by the conductive gate, anamolous surface conduction under the gate, etc.
Figure 10 shows a MOS device structure alleviating the punch-through voltage and breakdown voltage problems.
lG The device of Figure 10 is to be taken as representing the cross section of either an individual ~OS field-effect, transistor device of a field-effect transistor device having multiple sources and gates. In this latter instance, Figure 10 is thus a somewhat wider version of cross section 18 of Figure 7, a figure taken from part of Figure 6 and related to Figure 3A. Passivating layer 20 has been added in Figure 10 as in Figures 8 and 9 which also, show cross sections taken froF, Figure 7.
In Fisure 10, however, the source and drain region leading to triangular surface portions 10 and 13, respectively, are no longer formed in the semiconductor material body, but rather are formed on the major surface of the semiconductor material body by deposits of doped polysilicon. The channel of the MOS field-effect transistor device of Figure 10 will again occur in the semiconductor material body 21 through inversion occurring in this semiconductor material below the gate 16. This channel will then form between the source and drain doped polysilicon deposits.

i 1~22~71 The silicon semiconductor material body 21 is of p-type conductivity through being doped by boron atoms to the extent of approximately 2 x 1015 atoms/cm3. A threshold voltage adjust region, 21', of higher boron doping at the body 21 major surface, typically 2 x 1016 ato~s/cm3 may be provided, usually by implantation, to adjust the threshold voltage of the resulting field-effect transistor. This region may also be selected to be provided in some of the previously discussed devices. The polysilicon source and drain regions leading to the triangular surface portions 10 and 13, respectively, ~in the multiple source and drain region device laid out in a hexagonal matrix densely packed structure of Figure 10), are of n-type conductivity through doping by phosphorus to the extent of 1018 atoms/cm3. The gate 16 can again be of doped polysilicon or of metal. The , doped polysilicon drain and source regions are typically 0.3 to 0.4~m thick and separated by typically 4~m. The tapered portions of these regions are at least l~m in extent along the surface of semiconductor layer 21, and preferably 2~m.
Silicon dioxide layer 19 is typically 2,000A. Other parameter voltages are possibly subject to the criteria discussed below.
Of course, the Figure 10 cross section can also represent either a discrete field-effect device or one in a monolithic integrated circuit having other transistors or types of transistors therein. This device could also be used in connection with the layout of Figure 1, 2, 3B or 3C
in a monolithic integrated circuit as well as with the layouts of Figures 3A, 6, and 7.

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When in the "off" condition, a substantial positive voltage, i.e. reverse bias voltage, will be on drain region 13 leading to the depletion regions outlined by the dashed lines in Figure 10. A smaller reverse bias voltage provides the depletion region contained within the long dashed lines in Figure 10 and a larger revexse bias voltage leads to the larger depletion region contained within the short dashed lines. First, the structure of Figure 10 will increase the minimum voltage leading to punch-through between the depletion regions around both drain region 13 and source region 10, respectively, resulting from the merging of these depletion regions. This is because of the abrupt nature of the boundary or edge of doped polysilicon drain region 13 at its terminating edge next to the channel which requires that the depletion region portion in the semiconductor material layer 21 to begin essentially at this edge to maintain equal immobile charge on both sides of the metallurgical junction in the depletion region.
This equal charge maintenance requirement and the relatively long extent of relatively heavily doped source region 13 also means that increases in the depletion region extent with increasing reverse bias voltage will occur mostly perpendicular to the surface of semiconductor material layer 21 with very little increase parallel thereto. ~hat is, any increase in the depletion region extent perpendicular to the surface of semiconductor material layer 21 will include so much more immobile charge to balance the added immobile charge in the depletion region occurring in drain region 13 that little further increase in the layer 21 depletion region parallel to its surface is required. Purther, any increase in the depletion region extent in drain region 13 28 , ... , ., :

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occurrs in a portion thereof relatively remote from the boundary thereof because of the tapered edge nature of this source region. The source region 10 is usually of similar construction.
Not only is there an improvement in the minimum punch-through voltage in using the structure of Figure 10, but also there is an improvement in the breakdown voltage of the pn junction between the doped polysilicon drain region 13 and the ~emiconductor material body 21 serving as a substrate.
This improvement in the breakdown voltage depends directly on the length and thickness, i.e. the taper, of the tapered edge of the drain region 13 as shown in Figure 10. If the terminating edge of drain region 13 were a planar boundary perpendicular to the surface of semiconductor material layer 21, there would be a relatively sharp angle in the depletion region boundary at the point the doped polysilicon deposit of drain region 13 meets this surface because of the extension, though smaller, of the depletion region in layer 21 parallel to this surface. Such an abrupt geometrical change in the depIetion region leads to a relatively high gradient of the voltage being dropped across the depletion region at the point of the sharp change which means a relatively high electric field at this point for a given voltage leading to a relatively low breakdown voltage. On the other hand, drain region 13 with its tapered terminating edge does not introduce a sharp angle into the depletion boundary and so no substantial gradients result. Thus the breakdown voltage is not too different from that associated with a plane junction.
A further advantage of the structure shown in Figure 10 is that the edge of the depletion region in drain region 13 comes out from beneath effective portions of gate 16 for large reverse bias voltages on arain region 13.

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This leads to higher breakdown voltages by eliminating or reducing some of the problems described above in connection with the mention of the gate modifying breakdown voltages.
Thus, the doping distributions in the polysilicon deposit of drain region 13 and of semiconductor material layer 21, the extent of the tapered portion of drain region 13 under effective portions of gate conductor 16, and the thickness of gate insulating layer 19 should be chosen so that the drain depletion region extends through those portions of drain region 13 under the effective portions of gate conductor 16 prior to breakdown occurring.
The structure of Figure 10 allows the use of any crystallographic plane as a major surface of semiconductor ~ody 21 so that a high carrier mobility in that particular crystallographic orientation can be obtained. This is in contrast to V-MOS devices where the need for etching the V-groove limits the crystallographic orientations which can be used and results in crystallographic orientations for the channel that have a lower carrier mobility and, hence, higher "on" condition resistance and longer switching time.
The structure of Figure 10 can be provided with use of simple processing requiring no high temperature steps since no diffusions are involved. That is, the doped poly-silicon can be deposited by an evaporation process without any need for high temperatures and there is no other doped regions to be provided in or upon the already doped semiconductor material 21.
The cross sections shown in Figures 8, 9, and 10 would be approximately the same, if properly chosen, for figures related to Figures 3B and 3C as Figures 6 and 7 ~n are related to Figure 3A. That is, the change in geometrical arrangement in going from Figure 3A to Figures 3B or 3C would not require substantial fabrication process changes.
The structure of Figure 10 requires the doped polysilicon source region 10 and drain region 13 have a tapered termination edge spread--to a distance of one and preferably two microns--over a substrate structure, a situation which can present difficulties in fabrication for some fabrica-tion processes. Figure 11, on the other hand, shows an alternative MOS field-effect device which also provides high minimum punch-through and breakdown voltages. The structure of Figure 11 is again to be taken as representing a cross section of either an individual MOS field-effect transistor device or of a portion of a MOS field-effect device having several source and drain regions. Thus, again, the Figure 11 cross section can be a wider version of cross section 18 in Figure 7 if a passivating layer was added in this latter Figure, and so of Figures 6 and 3A. Similarly, : Figure 11 may be a cross section of a device represented by Figures 2 or 3B or 3C if drain and source interconnection means and a passivating layer were added to these latter ; figures.
The MOS field-effect transist~r device of Figure 11, in contrast to the structure of Figure 10, has source region 10 and drain region 13 formed in the semiconductor material body 21. However, the doping level in regions 10 and 11 are extremely low so that when the MOS field-effect transistor device is in the "off" condition, with a large reverse bias on the drain-substrate pn junction (meaning in Figure 11 that drain region 13 is positive with respect to the substrate, . 31 li42271 i.e. other portion of semiconductor material body 21) that drain region 13 is completely depleted of charge carriers prior to avalanche breakdown of the drain-substrate pn junction. As a result, the drain region side of the depletion region around the drain-substrate junction extends into drain interconnection means 15 for sufficient reverse bias voltage. A similar result would be obtained at source region 10.
By ensuring that source region 10 and drain region 13 each do not contain sufficient impurity doping to reach a critical electrical f ield prior to complete depletion under reverse bias, the breakdown properties become determined essentially by a depletion region spread over a relatively long path over the metallurgical junction involved and by the conditions existing around the electrical contact means made to these regions. This situation, to a substantial extent, removes the influence of gate 16 from affecting breakdown and limits the lateral extent of the depletion region on the substrate side of the metallurgical junctions.
To assure these conditions exist, the structure of Figure 11 uses highly doped polysilicon source interconnection means 12 and highly doped polysilicon drain interconnection means 15. Providing the interconnection means or electrical contacts in operations subsequent to providing regions 10 and 13 also leads to a slight diffusion into regions 10 and 13 shown just below the interface between the semiconductor material body 21 and these interconnection means. The depth of this diffusion is very shallow, approximately O.l~m or less, and does not have a significant effect on the behavior of region 10 and 13 under reverse bias conditions.

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The doped polysilicon n-type conductivity source and drain interconnection means 12 and 15, respectively, are doped with phosphorus to the extent of 1018 to 1019 atoms/cm3.
The phosphorus doping level concentration in the n-type S conductivity source and drain regions 10 and 13, respectively, in semiconductor material body 21 is approximately of the order of 0.1 to 4 x 1016 atoms/cm3. This is provided by an ion implanta-tion step di~cussed below using a carefully controlled dose.
The (i) high doping level of the doped polysilicon electrical contacts, and the (ii) low doping level of the source and drain regions, leads to the extending of the contact depletion region portions--those on the electrical contact side of the pn junctions around the source and drain regions, respectively--into the source and drain interconnection means very soon with increasing reverse biasing voltage on these pn junctions.
The doping level of semiconductor material body 21 is of a p-type conductivity and is due to boron atoms being present in the, typically, silicon material thereof in a concentration less than approximately 5 x 1015 atoms/cm3.
A threshold voltage adjust region, 21', also of p-type conductivity, may or may not be provided in semiconductor material body 21 immediately adjacent to the major surface of this body. This region is shown by an alterna~ely long and short dash in a dashed line in Figure 11. If provided to adjust the threshold voltage of the resulting MOS field-effect transistor, the region would usually be fabricated by implanting boron atoms reaching a concentration of typically around 2 x 1016 atoms/cm3. The depth of threshold adjust region 21' below the major surface of body 21 may be less than, equal to, or exceed the depth of the source and drain region 10 and 13, ~ ~2~

The ef f ects of increasing reverse bias voltage on the drain-substrate pn junction, i.e. an increasing positive voltage applied to the drain interconnection means 15 in Figure 11 with respect to the substrate, are shown by the dashed lines displayed in that figure. For low reverse bias voltages, a pair of long dashed lines on either side of the solid line depicting the metallurgical pn junction, separating the drain region 13 from the remainder of the semiconductor material body 21, represents the limits of the depletion region in this condition. That is, the depletion region occurs entirely within the semiconductor material body 21.
Since the immobile charge within the depletion regions on either side of the drain-substrate metallurgical junction must be equal, the depletion region around the curved portion of the pn junction extends less far into the channel region of the semiconductor material body 21 than it does into the drain region 13. This is because the receding of the depletion region boundaries from the pn junction with increasing reverse bias will more quickly include additional immobile charges in the depletion region on the semiconductor material body 21 side of the pn junction than on the drain region 13 side because of the greater radius of curvature of the depletion region boundary on the body side of the junction as opposed to the radius on the drain side of the junction. Thus, the depletion region will not extend into the channel region as rapidly and the punch-through voltage minimum will be increased.

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For a higher reverse bias voltage on the drain interconnection means 15, the short dashed lines in Figure 11 result. The depletion region boundary on the drain region 13 side of the metallurgical pn junction has now receded 5 into the doped polysilicon interconnection means 15. Again, there has been relatively little increase in the depletion region limit on the substrate side of the pn junction into the channel, but rather the increase in the depletion region on the substrate side goes deeper into the substrate body.
This is based on the fact that little more immobile charge is being uncovered by increasing reverse bias voltage in the drain interconnection means 15 in the direction parallel to the major surface of the se~.iconductor material body 21 (no further immobile charge is uncovered in region 13 as it is completely depleted). Consequently, to maintain equal amounts of immobile charge in the depletion region on both sides of the metallugical junction, little more immobile charge is uncovered on the substrate side in the channel region along this same direction with the increasing reverse bias voltage.
This being so, very short channel lengths can be used for the MOS field-effect transistor device of Figure 11 without encountering punch-through. This use of short channel lengths, as indicated earlier, lowers the "on"
condition channel resistance and reduces the semiconductor material body major surface area taken up by the device.
There is also a substantial improvement in the breakdown voltage minimum because in the condition shown by the pair of short-dashed lines in Figure 11, the depletion region on the drain 13 side of the drain-substrate pn junction has receded into the drain interconne~tion means 15. While there is some curvature of the electric field in this `

`\ -11'~2271 geometry, the reverse bias voltage applied to the drain interconnection means 15 is spread over a substantial longer depletion region having less concentrated exposed immobile charge by virtue of the use of the lightly doped drain region 13 leading to a lower electric field for a particular reverse bias voltage. Further, with the boundary of the drain portion of the depletion region in the drain interconnection means 15, the influence of the gate 16 on breakdown is much reduced. Thus, the Figure 11 structure obtains improved 10 minimum punch-through voltages and breakdown voltages, but in a manner not requiring the forming of a long, thin tapering doped polysilicon region to serve as the source and drain regions.
~ For the structures of both Figures 10 and 11, the 15 avoidance of a substantial doping diffusion step to provide heavily doped source and drain regions in the semiconductor material body present, as is typically done, allows closer spacing of the effective portions of the gate conductor to the source and dr~in interconnection means contacts. This 20 is so because no sideway, or lateral, diffusion of the source and drain regions need be allowed for in the packing of the MOS field-effect device in the major surface of the semi-conductor material body. That is, in Figure 10, the source and drain interconnection means are provided by a deposition 25 of doped polysilicon and no further structure is provided in the semiconductor material body 21 which could diffuse laterally. On the other hand, in Figure 11, the lightly doped portions of the source and drain regions in the semiconductor material body 21 may be provided through ion implantation which will self-align with gate conductor 16.

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This means that only a relatively small area in the semiconductor material body major surface need be used in forming a MOS
field-effect device. This closer source and drain contact spacing with respect to the gate, permitting reduced distances across the device between the source and drain contacts, will tend to offset the somewhat larger distances involved between the effective source and drain, on the one hand, and the effective gate portions on the other, due to having the contacts serve as the effective source and drain regions.
Because of the importance of having the proper doping level in both (at least where more or less symmetrical capabilities are desired) the source region 10 and the drain region 13 of Figure 11, to assure that depletion therein occurs prior to breakdown of the pn junction separating these regions from the remainder of the substrate, the doping requirements for these regions must be relatively precisely met. Rather than a concentration level alone being the criteria, the total number of net impurity atoms per unit area provided in the semiconductor material body below the portions of the semiconductor material body major surface intersected by the source and drain regions is to be controlled. That is, the ion implantation net dose must be controlled, i.e. the integral of the concentration over depth in the semiconductor material body must be controlled, so that the excess of phosphorus atoms in either drain region 13 and in source region 10 over the boron dopant atoms in region 21' (or in substrate 21' if no differentiated region 21' is provided) is due to a dose of less than approximately 1 x 1013 atoms/cm2.
Whether the proper dopin~ levels for the source and drain regions of Figure 11 has been achieved can be determined by checking that the drain regions, for instance, :
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are completely depleted when reverse biased without the junction being in breakdown, which will require the application of a reverse bias voltage of between 25 and 35 volts. On the other hand, for a p-channel deivce, the drain-substrate pn junction should completely deplete without the junction being in breakdown when subjected to a sufficient reverse bias voltage which will be between approximately 80 and 90 volts. In practice then, the breakdown voltage across, for instance, the drain-substrate pn junction in devices satisfying these re~uirements, will be found to be around 200 volts or more with the substrate and source commonly grounded.
Using an implantation energy of 150kv, the source regions 10 and drain regions 13 of Figure 11 will be separated from the remainder of the semiconductor material body 21 by a pn junction being at a depth of approximately l~m below the major surface of the semiconductor material body 21.
Source regions 10 and drain regions 13 will be separated from one another by approximately 2 to 4~m below gate 16. Gate 16 can be either doped polysilicon or metal and will be separated from the major surface of semiconductor material body 21 by a portion of, typically, silicon dioxide of insulating material 19 usually about 2,000A thick.
Doped polysilicon is not the only material which can satisfactorily be used for making the source and drain interconnection means of Figure 11. An alternative is shown in Figure 12 where the source interconnection means 12 and the drain interconnection means 15 are formed by the use of multiple metal layer contacts, the first contact shown there being platinum which is provided in a manner to form platinum silicide at the interface between the platinum and the very shallow n+-type conductivity region implanted or 11~2271 diffused below these interconnection means in silicon semi-conductor material body 21 (and in threshold adjust reglon 21' if present). In thls arrangement, the regions marked in Figure 12 n+ are provided by ion implantation, and are very shallow, being less than 0.1~m below the major surface of semiconductor materlal body 21. Thereafter, various layers of metal on the platinum can be provided to form the interconnection means in one of the well known electrical contact structures for monolithic integrated circuits. Oth-er interconnection means structures can be used with other materials such contacting the silicon with aluminum contacts or any other metallurgical arrangement which does not lead to spiking through the n~ regions provided below these contacts.
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The devices of Figures 11 and 12 increase break-down voltages by forcing the resultlng electric fields occurring in the "off" condition to be spread over a longer distance to thereby reduce field intensity at any of the points subject to the fields when these devices are ln the "off'l condition with either the source or the drain region withstanding the forcing voltage. A further way for reducing field intensity at either the source or the drain location is to have present some other or some further means for adhering the field. This can be accomplished by use of a field plate, or shield electrode, provided in the insulating material near the source or drain regions including the bounding pn junctions surrounding these regions in the semiconductor material. The use of such a shield electrode spaced in the insulating material the same distance from the semiconductor material body electrode material as the gate conductor, or gate region, is spaced therefrom does offer an improved voltage breakdown but not .~

ll~ZZ71 as much as having the shield electrode spaced somewhat fur-ther from the semiconductor material body.

Figure 13 shows a first version of an alternative MOS field-effect device which again provides increased minimums for device punch-throuqh and breakdown voltages using a shield electrode. Once again this structure with its variants, as shown in Figure 13 (and subsequently in alternate versions in Figures 14 and 15) are to be taken as representing a cross section of either an individual MOS
field-effect transistor device or of a portion of a MOS
field-effect device having several source and drain regions.
As a result, the cross section shown in Figure 13 tand in Figures 14 and 15) can be versions of cross section 18 in Figure 7, shown somewhat wider in Figure 13, if a passivating layer was added in Figure 7, and so a version of ; Figures 6 and 3A. Of course, the region marked 24 in Figures 6 and 7 for a D-MOS device are to be ignored here as they are to be ignored in Figures 10, 11 and 12. Such devices are not being discussed here. Again, the cross-section structures of Figure 13 ~and of Figures 14 and 15~ may be cross sections of a device represented by Figures 2 or 3B or 3C if drain and source interconnection means and a passivating layer were added to these latter figures.

The MOS field-effect transistor device of Figure 13A has a pair of terminating regions, 10 and 13, formed in semiconductor material body 21. These regions, of course, serve as a terminating region for what is intended to be the channel region in Figures 13A appearing underneath what now is a split gate conductor 16, or split gate region. The components of this gate conductor are designated 16' and 16''. Terminating region 10 will continue as souece region 10 and terminating region 13 will continue as drain region ~n 13, again, somewhat arbitrarily as though the device of Fig-ure 13A was being used in a direct voltage application.
However, since the voltage polarity applied determines which of the regions 10 and 13 is actually serving as a source or a drain region in a circuit sense at any particular time during operation, these terminating regions may in practice serve as either a source or a drain region in a circuit sense. They will alternately be often serving as both in an alternating voltage circuit application.

Again, external interconnection means 12 is shown made in opening 11 to source region 10 as is external interconnection means 15 shown-made in opening 14 to drain region 13. Silicon dioxide insulating layer 19 is shown around gates 16' and 16'' and passivating layer 20 is shown over insulating layer 19 and interconnection means 12 and 15.

Further, silicon dioxide insulating layer 19 is shown provided around a palr of shleld electrodes, 28 and 29. Shield electrode 28 completely surrounds external interconnection means 12 and is in lnsulating layer 19 directly across from the pn junction, occurring between source region 10 and other parts of-semiconductor material body as 21, where this junction intersects the major surface of that body as shown in Figure 13A. Similarly, shield electrode 29 surrounds external connection means 15 and is across from the pn junction, occurring between drain region 13 and other parts of semiconductor material body 21, where this junction intersects the major surface of that body.

Each of shield electrodes 28 and 29 are shown spaced away from the major surface of semiconductor material body 21 further than is either of gate conductors 16' and , ' , 16'' spaced away feom that surface. This spacing of the shield electrodes 28 and 29 from the major surface of semi-conductor mateeial body 21 is typically two to five times that spacing occurring between the same major surface and either of gate conductors 16' and 16''.

Consider the situation when MOS field-effect tran-sistor device is in the ~off" condition, with a large reverse bias on the drain-substrate pn junction (meaning in Figure 13A that drain region 13 is positive with respect to the substrate, i.e., the other portions of semiconductor material body 21) and with electrode 29 and gate 16'' both connected together and to drain region 13 as shown by the dashed line circuits in Figure 13A. Then the additional field emanating from shield electrode 29 and from gate con-ductor 16' ! will force the field emanating from the deple-tion region edge in drain region 13 to terminate on exposed charge in the depletion region occurring deeper below the major surface in semiconductor material body 21 to thereby lessen the field intensity at the drain region pn junction : 20 in the major surface of semiconductor material body 21.
:~ Relatively larger spacing between shield electrode 29 and the major surface of semiconductor material body 21 compared to the spacing between that surface and gate conductor 16'' will increase the breakdown of voltages associated with the field emanating from shield electrode 29 as this electric field is spread out over a greater distance than is the electric field occurring on conductor 16''. Nevertheless, the location of electrode shield 29 closer to the edge of the depletion region occurring in drain region 13 permits the field emanating from shield electrode 29 to have a sub-stantial effect on the electric field emanating from this depletion region edge.

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~i~zzn The insulation prevent~ng electrical contact between gate conductor portion 16'' and 16' permits having gate conductor 16'' at the same voltage that is present on drain region 13 without device shown in Figure 13A being switched "on". A similar situation exists at source region 10 for a reverse voltage applied to external interconnection means 12.

The dashed line circuit shown ln Figure 13A, in its entirety, permits operating the device shown there sym-metrically, e.g., in an alternating polarity circuit appli-cation. When this structure is to be switched "on", the two switch bars 30 and 31, are both switched together to common switch point, 33. Switch point 33 is in turn connected to a source of positive voltage exceeding the threshold voltage of the device. In this condition, the device of Figure 13A
will operate as would an ordinary MOS field-effect transis-tor with gate conductor 16' and 16'' together serving joint-ly as the transistor gate.

When the structure of Figure 13A is desired to be, alternatively, switched to the "off" condition, switch bar 30 is connected to external connection means 12 which there-by connects gate conductor 16' to external connection means 12 and so to source region 10. Similarly, switch bar 31 is connected external connection means 15 and so to drain region 13. This arrangement permits holding the device of ~5 Figure 13A in the "off" condition whether the voltage to be withstood is applied to external connection means 15, and so gate conductor 16'', or to external connection means 12, and so to gate conductor 16', relative to external means 15.
Since but one gate is connected to the voltage to be withstood, the other gate of the other polarity of the ` ` ` 1~4227~1 applied voltage, no channel will be completed under this other gate and so the device is off.

Figure 13B shows the device of Figure 13A but replacing the dashed line interconnections between shield electrode 28 and gate conductor 16', on the one hand, and between shield electrode 29 and gate conductor 16'', on the other hand, by a continuous structure arrangement. This structure arrangement effectively provides a short between the gate conductor and its corresponding shield electrode in place of the dashed line short circuit shown in Figure 13A.
Thus, the shield and gate conductors associated with source region 10 in Figure 13A are designated jointly by the same designations in Figure 13B, this joint designation being 16', 28. Similarly, the joint shield electrode and gate conductor designation, associated with drain region 13, is 16 " , 29.

Assuming use of the Figure 13B device, the dashed line circuitry of Pigure 13A may be more practically implemented therewith by use of the circuit shown in Figure ~: 20 13C. The switching bar 30 of Figure 13A is implemented by a field-effect transistor, 30', and a coupling resistor, 30'', at Figure 13C. Similarly, switching bar 31, is provided by a field-effect transistor, 31', and a coupling cesistor, : 31 " . In some instances, a transistor switching circuit arrangement will be used in place of resistors 30'' and 31 "
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The arrangement of Figure 13C with resistors 30'' and 31 " can approximately provide the switching function of Figure 13A. This approximation is sufficiently close enough to provide the switching functions achieved by the dashed line circuitry shown in Figure 13A.

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22~, In both Figures 13A and 13B, dashed line structures are shown at the extreme right and left hand edges of the diagrams near the shield electrodes 2~ and 29 or directly connected to the joint shield-gate conductor electrodes 16', 28 and 16'', 29. These dashed line structures are shown as they would appear if the structures of Figures 13A and 13B were cross sections of field-effect device structures such as those shown in Figures 7, 6, 3A, 2, 3B-or 3C. These dashed-line structures are also shown in Figure 13D and in the structures shown in cross section in Figures 14 and lS for the same purpose, i.e., if these structures represented cross sections of the field-effect devices appearing in the figures just listed. No further reference will be made to these dashed line structures.

The structure of Figures 13A or 13B can be advantageously combined with the structures of Figure 11 or Figure 12 to provide an even higher breakdown voltage than for the structure of Figures 13A of Figures 13B taken alone.
The result of combining the structure shown in Figure 11 with the structure shown in Figure 13A is set out in Figure 13D, although the combination of either Figures 13A or 13B
could have been shown with combination of either of the Figures 11 and 12. No threshold voltage adjust region had been shown provided in any of Figures 13A, 13B or 13D but one can be to adjust the threshold voltage for the device if this option is desired.

In Figure 13D, the dopant distribution in semicon-ductor material body 21 outside the source and drain regions, the dopant distribution of source and drain regions, the thickness of the insulating layer between semi-conductor body 21 and gate conductor 16' and 16'', and the doping level of the polysilicon external connection means 12 11~2;~71 and 15 are all such that drain regions 10 and 13 can be com-pletely depleted of charge carriers prior to avalanche breakdown of the pn junctions surrounding these regions when these junctions are subjected to reverse bias voltage. In a typical situation, doping of semiconductor material body 21 will be such that there will be boron atoms present reaching a concentration of up to 2X1016 atoms/cm3. The doped polysilicon n-type conductivity source and drain interconnection means 12 and 15 are typically doped by phos-phorus to the extent of 1018 to 1019 atoms/cm3.

There will also be phosphorus atoms used in doping the n-type conductivity source and drain regions 10 and 13 in semiconductor material body 21 on the order of .1-4xl016 atoms/cm3. This will be provided by a carefully controlled dose in an ion implantation step to carefully control the total number of net impurity atoms per unit area provided in a semiconductor material body below the portion of semicon-ductor material body major surface intersected by the source and drain regions. ~hat is, the ion implantation net dose, i.e., the integral of the concentration over depth in the semiconductor material body 21, must be controlled, so the excess of phosphorus atoms in either the source region 10 or the drain region 13 over the boron dopant atoms there is due to a dose of less than approxi~ately lx1013 atoms/cm2.
Again, this net may be over the dopant concentration appearing in the semiconductor material body 21 outside the source and drain regions generally, or above a threshold adjust region provided adjacent to the major surface of semiconductor material body 21.

Once again, gate conductor 16' or 16'' can be either of doped polysilicon or of metal. Finally, there will be a heavily doped region occurring in source region 10 ' 27~
and one in source region 13 just below the interface of the doped polysilicon external connection means 12 and 15, respectively. These heavily doped n+-type conductivity regions will typically extend less than 0.3~m below the major surface of semiconductor material body 21.

Figure 13E shows graphs of device breakdown volt-age being plotted against the dose used in providing those portions of either source region 10 or drain region 13, in semiconductor material body 21, occurring outside of the heavily doped portions appearing just below polysilicon external interconnection means 12 and 15, respectively.
These relatively lightly doped portions of region 10 and drain region 13 can be termed lower conductivity terminating regions in being portions of the complete terminating regions which serve as source region 10 and drain region 13 in Figure 13D. The lower curve is labeled lower conductivi-. ty terminating region alone and represents the breakdown voltage versus dose for the structure shown in either of Figures 11 or 12 without the presence and use of a shield electrode such as shown in Figures 13A and 13B.

The shape of this lower curve can be explained by noting that in lower doses, the lower conductivity ~: terminating region becomes so lightly doped as to appear :~ nearly intrinsic or actually as part of the main portion of ~; semiconductor material body 21 so that only the heavily doped n~ region below polysllicon external connection means is effective is acting as the terminating region in semicon-ductor material body 21. In such a circumstance, the device appears as an ordinary MOS field-effect transistor with the n~-type conductivity regions serving as the source and drains therein, the lightly doped regions being generally ineffective. At high doses on the right hand edge of the 2;Z7~

lower curve of Figure 13E, the doping in what is supposed to be at the lightly doped portion of the terminating regions becomes so great as to not differ much from the source and drain regions in an ordinary MOS field-effect transistor so that the entire source region 10 and drain region 13 appear as ordinary source and drain regions for such a transistor.

The upper curve in Figure 13E shows that the breakdown voltage can be increased at every dose for which the curve is presented, at least when the proper parameters are chosen for the structure shown in Figure 13D. Thus combining the structures o Figures 13A or 13B with either of the structures shown in Figure 11 or Figure 12 can lead to a device with a higher beeakdown voltage. The general shape of the upper is explained in the same manner as the shape of the lower curve.

An alternate version of the structure shown in Figure 13 which can provide many of the same advantages, is shown in Figure 14. In Figure 14A, there is now elut one gate conductor 16 as opposed to the two split gate conductors 16' and 16'' shown 1n Figure 13A. There is also but one shield electrode, 34, shown in Figure 14A as opposed to the two shield electrodes 28 and 29 shown in Figure 13A.
The structure shown in Figure 14A is more readily fabricated in monolithic integrated circuit form than are the structures shown in Figure 13. Further, much of the switching circuitry shown in dashed lines in Figure 13A to operate the device shown there is not required for operating the device shown in Figure 14A. This is because the gate conductor 16 can be operated entirely independently of shield electrode 34. Shield electeode 34 can be operated at some positive, constant voltage greatet than the threshold voltage of the device shown in Figure 14A but need not be - .
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That is, shield electrode 34 can be operated at a S constant positive voltage whether the device of Figure 14A
is desired to be in the "on" condition or the "off" condi-tion. In the "on" condition, the shield electrode 34 will be at a positive voltage as will gate electrode 16 both of which will act to induce formation of a channel region in }O the semiconductor material between source region 10 and drain region 13, although, gate conductor 16 will be much more effective in achieving this inducement by being closer to the semiconductor material. ~hen the device structure of Flgure 14A is desired to be in the "off" condition, shield electrode 34 will act just as did shield electrodes 28 and 29 in Figure 13A. The electric field emanating from elec-trode 34 will force a reduction in the electric field inten-sity occurring at .the semiconductor material major surface intersections of the pn junctions around source region 10 ~: 2Q and drain region 13, respectively, to thereby increase the breakdown voltage of the device shown in Figure 14A. Fur-~: ther, the optimum value of voltage for this purpose to be applied to shield electrode 34 can be chosen because shield ~: electrode 34 is not connected to either source region 10 or ~ to drain region 13, as were shield electrodes 28 and 29 in l: Figure 13A and 13B. In these structures in Figure 13, it ~: was possible that the voltage applied to shield electrodes 28 and 29 would be too high for achieving the best breakdown voltage as possible and could even contribute to an increase in breakdown voltage in some configurations. A dashed-line interconnection, 35, for connection to a voltage supply is shown made to shield electrode 34 and, of course, no .: .

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switching function is shown with this dashed interconnection circuit.

Again, the structure shown in either of Figures 11 or 12 can be advantageously combined with the structures S shown in Figure 14A. The result is shown in Figure 14B in a p-channel device where again the dopant distribution in semiconductor material body 21 outside drain region 10 and source region 13, the dopant distribution in the lightly doped portions of source region 1~ and drain region 13, the doping level of the polysilicon external interconnection means 12 and 15, and the thickness of the insulating layer between gate conductor 16 and the major surface of semicon-ductor material body 21 are all chosen so that source region 10 or drain region 13 can be completely depleted of charge carriers prior to avalanche breakdown of the pn junctions surrounding these regions when these junctions are subjected to a reverse bias voltage. Typical values for these various parameters of the configuration of Figure 14B for a success-ful device are approximately those given for the device of Figure 13D but of course the dopant types are reversed in : position across the junctions since the device of Figure 14~
is a p-channel device rather than the n-channel device shown in Figures 11, 12, and 13. This change from n-channel to p-channel devices is given only as an indication that either form can be constructed although there may be some advantages for one form over the other in any particular device use or application.

Another version is shown in Figure 14C which relies on only a portion of the.structure shown in either Figures 11 or 12 to also gain an advantage in the breakdown voltage achieved. That is, rather than having the lightly doped portion of source region 10 or drain region 13 entire-: 50 , 2~71 ly surround the p+ region occurring below external interconnection means 12 and 15, respectively, (except along the major surface of semiconductor material body 21), the lightly doped region occurs in Figure 14C as an annulus S region around a p+ region which is also in contact with the remaining portion of semiconductor material body 21 below this annulus.

The configuratlon shown in Figure 14C does not give as high a breakdown voltage as the configuration shown in Figure 14B but does provide a greater breakdown voltage than does the structure shown in Figure 14A. Furthermore, the structure shown in Figure 14C can be fabricated in a completely self-aligned manner to thereby provide a smaller device insofar as use of area of the major surface of semi-conductor material body 21 is concerned as compared to the area required to fabricate the device shown in Figure 14B
for the same "on" condition channel resistance. ~hus, if in the particular use involved, if the breakdown voltage achieved by the device of Figure 14C is sufficient, the fab-2~ rication of a device or monolithic integrated clrcuit using the structure of Figure 14C will be less costly, through permitting a smaller chip, than one relying on the configu-ration shown in Figure 14B. A detailed description of a process for manufacturing the structure of Figure 14C is given below in which typical values are also provided for the dopant distributions, spacings etc.

Figure 14D again shows a plot of the device break-down voltage versus the lower conductivity terminating eegion dose for the structures of either Figure 14B or Fig-ure 14C, although the values of the curves plotted for the actual devices in these two figures would differ from one another. The lowest curve, designated lower conductivity ' 11~227~

terminating region alone, represents the situation in Figures 11 or 12, i.e., Figures 14B or 14C without the pres-ence and use of shield electrode 34. The topmost curve represents the situation in either Figure 14B or 14C when shield electrode 34 is operated at a negative 60 volts which is the proper polarity for the p-channel device as shown in Figures 14B and 14C. The shape of these curves is explained exactly in the way the shape of thè curves appearing in Fig-ure 13E is explained.

However, an intermediate curve is also shown in Figure 14D which represents the situation in either Figure 14B or 14C in which shield electrode 34 lS directly electri-cally connected to gate conductor 16 or to semiconductor material body 21 outside the terminating regions, i.e., the substrate. The fact that shorting shield electrode 34 to gate conductor 16 results in a higher breakdown voltage than in the absence of shield electrode 34, although not as high as can be achieved when shield electrode 34 is biased to an optimum voltage, is quite useful. This is because no fur-ther power supply is required and no provisions need be made for an external connection of such a power supply to a device or a monolithic integrated circuit chip having such a device. That is, the shield electrode 34 can be directly electrically connected to gate conductor 16 or the substrate right in the device or in the monolithic integrated circuit chip containing the device without any further interconn~ctions being needed.

That shorting of field electrode 34 to gate con-ductor 16 results in a higher breakdown voltage than would ; 30 be the case In the absence of shield electrode 34 may seem unexpected in view of the earlier description of how the presence of a shield electrode permits reaching a higher . - , 114Z27~

breakdown voltage. The earlier description indicated that a voltage on a shield electrode leads to an electric field emanating from the shield electrode forcing the electric field emanating from the edge of the depletion region in the source or drain region away from the pn junctions around each of these source and drain regions at the intersection of these junctions with the major surface of semiconductor material body 21. Here, there is likely to be little or no voltage occurring on the shield electrode 34 when shorted to gate conductor 16 because gate 16 will likely be at or near zero volts to hold the device in the "off" condition. Thus, there will be no electric field emanating from shield elec-trode 34. Rather, there will terminate on shield electrode 34 a portion of the electric field emanating from the deple-tion region edge, either of the source region 10 or drain region 15 depending on which of these is subjected to withstanding a reverse bias voltage.

And indeed, this is the explanation of why the electric field intensity is reduced across the pn junctions surrounding either source region 10 and drain region 13 when subjected to a reverse bias voltage when shield electrode 34 is shorted to gate conductor 16 or the substrate. There is not an electric field emanating from shield electrode 34 to force a change in the electric field occurring at intersec-tion of these pn junctions on the major surface of semicon-ductor material body 21. Rather, the field emanating from the depletion region edge, in whichever of source region 10 or drain region 13 is withstanding a reverse voltage, terminates on shield electrode 34 in contrast to otherwise having to terminate on gate conductor 16 or on exposed charge in the depletion region portion occurring in semicon-ductor material body 21. Thus, by diverting part of the , 11~l2~:71.

electric field away from terminating on charge in semicon-ductor material body 21 or on gate conductor 16, a smaller electric field will exist along paths from the depletion region edge to semiconductor material body 21 and gate con-ductor 16 for any given voltage being withstood by the per-tinent terminating region than would occur if shield elec-trode 34 was not present. As a result, a larger reverse voltage can be applied to the pn junctions around either source region 10 or drain region 13 before the electric field leading to breakdown across the junctions around these regions is reached. Further, the relative positions of shield electrode 34 and the more lightly doped portions of either source region 10 or drain region 13 lead to less cur-vature in the electric field which also increases the break-down voltage.

Three further advantages come from the structures shown in either of Figures 14B or 14C, at least when gate 16 shorted to electrode 34. First, note that there will be no electric field generated between the substrate and gate con-ductor 16 and shield electrode 34 when the device in either ; of these figures is in the nOffll condition. This is true since the substrate and the gate are at approximately the same voltage potential to produce the "off" condition.
Thus, there will be little Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling between the substrate and gates when the device is ln the ~off" condition which can lead to unusual operating results if this occurs.

Second, because of the presence of shield elec-trode 34, the lightly doped portion of either source region 10 or drain region 15 will have a depletion region formed along the major surface of semiconductor material body 21, with an edge more or less parallel with this surface, as - ` 114Z~7~

well as along the pn junction between these regions and semiconductor material body 21. As a result, the depletion region along the junction into semiconductor material body 21 need not grow as rapidly with increasing voltage and so thè punch-through voltage of the device for a given width of gate conductor 16 is increased over what it would be in the absence of shield electrode 34.

Finally, the use of shield electrode 34 along with lightly doped portions of source region 10 and drain region 13 for the purpose of i~creasing the breakdown vo}tage, also aids in reducing the "on" condition channel resistance for the device structure shown in Figures 14B and 14C over what it would be in the absence of shield electrode 34. This is because the application of a substantial voltage to gate region 16 for the purpose of switching "on" the device shown in either of these figures also leads to a substantial volt-age appearing on shield electrode 36. This voltage on shield electrode 36 then aids in increasing the enhancement occurring at the major surface of semiconductor material body 21 in these lightly doped portions of one or the other of source region 10 and drain region 13 to thereby reduce "on" condition channel resistance~

A possible disadvantage in the use of shield elec-. trode 34 either of Figures 14B or 14C without the shield : 25 electrode connected to gate conductoe 16 comes about because of the possibility of field-induced junction breakdown.
This is the result of voltage, occurring on shield electrode 34, inducing an inversion layer in semiconductor material body 21 underneath the edges of the shield electrode which would serve as a virtual source and which would have a sharp corner with a relatively low voltage breakdown. However, ~1~2Z7~
proper configurational choices, or limiting voltages applied tO shield electrode 34, can prevent this from occurring.

Because of the desirable possibility of having shield electrode 34 directly electrically connected to gate conductor 16, a dashed line interconnection, 36, has been shown in Figures 14B and 14C as a possible means for accomplishing this shorting. However, this need not be a separate external connection but could be a connection made in the device itself or in a monolithic integrated circuit containing such a device. In fact, the device may be fabricated in such a manner that the doped polysilicon or metal making up shield electrode 34 and gate conductor 16 actually join one another to remove any need for forming a separate interconnection, external or internal. As earlier noted, shield 34 can be connected to the substrate, i.e., portions of semiconductor body 21, but not while retaining all of the above advantages.

A further possibility is shown in Figure 15 for accomplishing this direct electrical connection between shield electrode 34 and gate conductor 16 as they were first shown in Figures 14B and 14C. That is, the shield electrode 34 and gate conductor 16 can be formed as a common structure as shown in Figure 15A which corresponds to the structure shown in Figure 14A. As a result, this common structure has been labeled with a joint designat1on 16, 34. Similarly, Figure 15B corresponds to Figure 14C.

Figure 15C corresponds to the structure shown in Figure 14B but with a change in the lightly doped portions of source region 10 and drain region 13. This change is the appearance of a hump in the bottom part of the lightly doped portion in each of source region 10 and draln region 13.

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This hump can occur because of an alternative method of fabricating the structure shown in Figure 15C. In this method of fabrication, the hump part of the lightly doped portion in each of regions 10 and 13 is provided separately from the remaining parts of lightly doped portions in regions 10 and 13. Of course, this two-part fabrication of the lightly doped portions in each of regions 10 and 13 could have been provided in the structure shown in Figure 14B and so a corresponding dashed line version of shield electrode 34 is shown in Figure l5C to indicate this possi-bility. In accord, dashed line versions are shown to rise from the shield electrode portions occurring at the extreme right hand and left hand edges of the structure in Figure 15C as well as the dropping portions shown. These are both shown, as indicated before, to indicate the structure which would occur if the cross section of Figure 15C was merely a part of a field-effect device having several source and drain regions therein as earlier described.

Turning now to Figure 16, the results of steps in a fabrication process for manufacturing the devlce shown in Figùre 14C are shown. The process starts with a semiconduc-tor material body, the body being typically silicon and doped with phosphorus to the extent of having a resistivity of 4 ohm-cm. The silicon is typically Czochralski grown and has a major surface, through and on which the fabcication process will take place, which is a (100) plane. This semi-conductor material body is designated 110 in Figure 16A and is shown to have an n~-type conductivity.

A thin layer of silicon dioxide, 111, is thermally grown on the major surface of semiconductor material body 110 by placing the body in an oxygen atmosphere at 975C for two hours, the layer then having a thickness of approximate-~7 - ~ 1142271 ly 650A. Then a layer of silicon nitride, 112, is deposited on the surface of layer 111 in a standard chemical vapor deposition process, the silicon nitride layer being approxi- -mately 2000A thick. This is followed by depositing yet another layer of silicon dioxide, 113, of approximately 1000A thickness onto layer 112, again by using a standard chemical vapor deposition process. Finally, a photoresist layer is provided on layer 113 and provided with openings there-in in a desired pattern all done using a standard proc-ess.

This photoresist dioxide layer arrangement permits silicon dioxide layer 113 to be etched through the openings in the photoresist layer using buffered HF as an etchant.
Next, the photoresist is stripped away and this is followed by etching silicon nitride layer 112 through the openings in layer 113 using a standard wet etch process using H3PO4 These openings are where field regions will be formed which will separate from one another the electronic component devices to be formed. These field regions surround and so outline the feature regions in and below which the individu-al electronic component devices will be formed.

While MOS field-effect transistors having but a single source and single drain will be exhibited as being formed in the four feature regions shown in Figure l5A, field-effect devices of the kind described above having many sources and drains can also be formed by the same process.
They would be represented in Figure 15 by larger feature areas which would accommodate several sources and drains in the manner above described.

Following the provision of the field region openings through layers 113 and 112, the exposed portions of 1~42271 layer 111 and the silicon below are subjected to an ion implantation step using phosphorus ions having an energy of 120 kev. This i~plantation occurs with a dose 1013ions/cm2.
This implantation is used to adjust the field regions threshold, increasing this threshold to prevent MOS
field-effect transistor action between adjacent electron component devices in adjacent feature regions. The implantation step forms an n+-type conductivity region at approximately 0.1~m below the major surface of semiconductor material body 110.

The field regions are then oxidiæed by thermal growth through the openings in layers 113 and 112 by placing the structure at 975C for ten hours in an oxygen atmosphere to form the field oxide, 114. Concurrently, the original implanted ions in the field regions are driven deeper by diffusion into semiconductor material body 110. The results are shown in Figure 16~ where the original implanted phos-phorus ions in the field regions have been driven to a depth of 1.0~m and are designated 115.

Without further masking, the remnants of silicon dioxide layer 113 are then etched away using buffered HF.
No masking is required because layer 113 is much thinner than field oxide 114 and the simultaneous etching thereof with the etching away of layer 113 does not remove too much of regions 114. As a result of this etching, layer 114 is redesignated 114'. Then all of silicon nitride layer 112 is stripped away by etching with H3PO4.

~ext, a photoresist layer having selected openings therein is provided over the surface of oxide layer 111 in a standard process. These openings are made in this photoresist layer to expose those portions of layer 111 over -- ' 1142271 feature regions that are to have depletion mode devices formed therein, and are therefore to undergo an ion implantation to form a depletion mode region. The fabrica-tion process illustrated by Figure 16 will demonstrate both making ordinary MOS field-effect transistors and high break-down voltage MOS field-effect transistors. In addition, one ordinary ~OS field-effect transistor will be an enhance-ment mode and the other will be a depletion mode. These same alternatives will be shown for the high breakdown volt-age MOS field-effect transistors.

After the openings are provided in the photoresist on layer 111, an ion implantation step is performed using boron ions having energy of 100 kev with a dose used of from 0.5 to 4.0xlO12 ions/cm2 which results in a depletion mode region having a pn junction occurring at approximately 0.3~m below the major surface of semiconductor material body 110.
The results are shown in Figure 16C where the photoresist layer is designated 116. The resulting depletion implant region in the high breakdown voltage MOS field-effect tran-sistor is designated 117 while the depletion mode region for the ordinary MOS field-effect transistor is designated 118.

After completing the depletion mode region implant step, photoresist 116 is stripped away. Then, the device is annealed by placing the structure at 975C for a half hour.
Thereafter, silicon dioxide layer 111 is also etched away using buffered HF. Etching of layer 111 occurs without fur-ther masking because, again, the field-oxide regions 114' are relatively thick. The etching does remove a part of the field oxide regions and so these are now redesignated 114''.
3~ Next, a gate oxide is thermally grown by placing the structure at 975C in an oxygen atmosphere containing 4 :

il~2:~71 HCl until the gate oxide thickness reaches somewhere between O O
lOOOA and 2s00A with the thickness chosen depending on the design for the device being fabricated in light of its planned utilization. Then, 5000A of phosphorus doped polysilicon, doped to have a sheet resistance of 50 ohms/~
is deposited in a standard chemical vapor deposition proc-ess. Of course, undoped polysilicon could have been deposited and then implanted with a dopant to make it highly conductive. After the polysilicon deposition, silicon dioxide is deposited by a standard chemical vapor deposition process on the doped polysilicon to a depth of 4000A Final-ly, this silicon dioxide deposition is followed by providing a photoresist layer with a pattern of desired openings over - the silicon dioxide by a standard process.

~5 The openings in this last provided photoresist layer are made to occur in locations below which polysilicon gate region portions are not desired to be provided for the MOS field-effect transistors being formed. The silicon dioxide provided over the polysilicon is then etched using buffered HF through these openings in the photoresist followed by using a standard plasma etch process to remove the doped polysilicon where unwanted. This plasma etching is then followed by stripping away the photoresist by use of an etchant. The result is shown in Figure 16D where the doped polysilicon is designated 119 as it remains to form the gates for each of the MOS field-effect transistors being fabricated. The silicon dioxide remaining thereon original-ly used as a mask for forming the polysilicon gates, is designated 120. The silicon dioxide layer used as the gate oxide separating the gates 119 from the major surface of semiconductor material body 110 is designated 130.

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Also shown in Figure 16D is the result of providing the lower conductivity terminating region portions, i.e., the lower conductivity portions of the source and drain regions, which is accomplished by implanting boron ions in semiconductor material body 110 using an energy of 100 kev and a dose of from 1012 to 1013 ions/cm The actual dose used in this range depends on the planned use for the device being formed. Both the field oxide regions 114'' and polysilicon gates 119 with silicon oxide caps 120 are used as implantation masks. As a result, the implanted lower conductivity portions just provided are self aligned with the field oxide and the gates already provided in each of the MOS field-effect transistors belng formed. The pn junctions between the lower conductlvity portions of the drain and source regions and other portions of semiconductor material body 110 extend to 0.3~m below the major surface of this body.

The implanted regions forming the lower conduc-tivity portions of the source and drain regions, i.e., the terminating regions, of the high breakdown voltage enhance-ment mode MOS field-effect transistor are designated 121 and 122. The implant regions forming the lower conductivity portions of the terminating regions for the high breakdown voltage, depletion mode MOS field-effect transistor are designated 123 and 124. The implant depletion mode region for this transistor has been redesignated 117' in view of its being substantially narrowed to being just below gate region 119 for the device.

The regions resulting from the last implantation step located where the source and drain regions will occur for the ordinary enhancement mode MOS field-effect transis-tor are designated 125 and 126. Finally, the implanted !

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tegions located where the source and drain regions will occur for the ordinary depletion mode MOS field-effect tran-sistor are designated to 127 and 128. Depletion mode region 118 has been redesignated 118' in view of its being substan-tially narrowed to being just below gate 119 for the ordi-nary depletion mode device.

As the next step, silicon dioxide is then provided over gate oxide 130 except where covered by polysilicon gates ll9, over polysilicon gates 119 except for cover by gate caps 120, and over gate caps 120. Thls silicon dioxide is provided by first thermally growing 1600A of silicon dioxide on the exposed surfaces of semiconductor material body 110 and gates 119 by placing the structure in an oxygen atmosphere containing 4% HCl at 975C for three hours followed by depositing on this structure 3000A of silicon dioxide containing 1% phosphorus in a standard chemical dep-osition process. This structural arrangement is placed at 950C foe a half hour for "densification" of the silicon dioxide so provided. As a result, silicon dioxide appears all around gate regions 119 and so all this oxide, including gate oxide layer 130, is now generally designated by 130'.

At this point in the process, shield electrodes are provided through depositing in a standard chemical depo-sition process a polysilicon layer of 5000A thickness doped with phosphorus to the point of having a sheet resistance of 50 ohms/o . Of course, undoped polysilicon could be deposited which could later be doped by diffusion or ion implantation. Following this deposition, silicon dioxide is grown to a thickness of O.l~m on the doped polysilicon layer by placing the structure in an oxygen at~osphere at 975C
for one hour. This silicon dioxide deposition is followed by providing a photoresist layer having a desired pattern of ;:

14~1 openings on the deposited silicon dioxide using a standard process. These openings are provided in the photoresist layer at locations such that a subsequent introduction of dopants in semiconductor material body 110 below these openings will result in providing the higher conductivity terminating region portions, i.e., higher conductivity portions of the drain and source regions, of the high break-down voltage transistor devices and the source and drain regions in the ordinary transistors. The higher conductivi-ty terminating region portions are located to be entirely within the lower conductivity portions of these regions when viewed from the major surface of semiconductor material body 110 .

The silicon dioxide below these openings in the photoresist layer is etched away using buffered HP. Then the photoresist is stripped away. This silicon dioxide etching and photoresist stripping is followed by using a HF/HNo3/cH3cooH mixture in a 1:100:110 ratio through the openings in the silicon dioxide layer to etch concentric openings in the last deposited doped polysillcon silicon dioxide below these openings in the photoresist layer followed by use of another etchant to provide concentric openings in the polysilicon layer,. Note that none of this second polysilicon layer, provided for use as shield electrodes, will be required for use over the ordinary MOS
field-effect transistors being fabricated in the two right hand feature regions in Figure 16 since shield electrodes are not used in such electrical components. The photoresist layer is stripped away at this point.

The results of these steps are shown in Figure 16E
where the remaining portions of the shield electrode polysilicon layer are designated 131. The silicon dioxide - ~

1~4Z271 caps over these remaining shield polysilicon portions 131, used as masks during etching of the polysilicon, are designated 132.

With the openings through silicon dioxide layer 132 and polysilicon layer 131 complete, silicon dioxide lay-er 130' is now etched using buffered HF and using polysilicon shield electrodes 131 and silicon dioxide field regions 114'' as etching masks. As a result, openings are provided in silicon dioxide layer 130' all the way to the major surface of semiconductor material body 110 beneath the openings appearing in the polysilicon shield electrodes 131.
Openings also occur in the ordinary field-effect transistor feature regions adjacent to the field oxide regions 114'' and adjacent to gate regions 119 for these devices, gate regions 119 becoming etching mask portions after the silicon dioxides over them is etched away. Concurrently, the sili-con dioxide layer remnants 132 are entirely removed as are portions of field oxide 114''. Thus, a part of the lower conductivity terminating regions 121, 122, 123 and 124 are exposed at the major surface of semiconductor material body 110. All of the lower conductivity regions 125, 126, 127 and 128, located where the sources and drains of the ordi-nary transistors are to be formed, as they intersect the major surface of semiconductor material body 110 are exposed. The field oxide regions 114'' are again redesignated 114''' because of the etching step removing parts of these regions.

Then an implantation step is performed to provide the higher conductivity terminating region portions for the high breakdown voltage, MOS field-effect transistors and to provide the complete source and drain regions for the ordi-nary MOS field-effect transistors. Boron ions having an ~ 114;~27~

energy of 100 kev are implanted using a dose of ~X1015 ions/cm followed by annealing the device at 950C for a half hour. This is followed by thermally growing 1000A of silicon dioxide, through placing the structure in an oxygen atmosphere at 975C for one and a half hours, on the exposed surface portions of the major surface of semiconductor mate-eial body 110 and on polysilicon shield electrodes 131. On this thermally grown oxide there is then deposited 6000A of silicon dioxide having a 6~ phosphorus therein in a standard chemical vapor deposition process. Following this, the ion implanted regions just provided are caused to diffuse deeper into semiconductor material body 110 by placing the device at 1025C for 2.5 hours. The pn junctions resulting from this diffusion reach approximately 1.5~m below the major lS surface of semiconductor material 110. The earlier provided depletion mode regions, 117' and 118' and the earlier provided lower conductivity terminating region portions 121, 122, 123 and 124 are forced deeper into semiconductor mate-rial body 110 by this diffusion, all reaching approxi~ately 0.4~m below the major surface of semiconductor material body 110 .

The results of these steps are shown in Figure 16F. Field oxide regions 114''' will be merged into the silicon dioxide layer provided after the last implantation step, as will the remaining portions of the silicon dioxide 130' around gates 119. Nevertheless, field oxide regions 114''' and the remainin3 portions of oxide 130' have been indicated by dashed lines in Figure 16F to aid in under-standing. what has happened in the process steps to this point. The new layer of silicon dloxide, provided after the last implantation step, is designated 133 and this will be the general designation for the merged structure.

The higher conductivity portions of the terminating regions, i.e., of the drain and source regions, for the high breakdown voltage, enhancement mode MOS
field-effect transistor have been designated 134 and 135.
The lower conductivity terminating region portions have been redesignated 121' and 122' in view of the central portion of them having been transformed by the presence of regions 134 and 135 and because of the greater depth these lower conduc-tivity regions have now reached.

The higher conductivity terminating region portions of the high breakdown voltage, depletion mode MOS
field-effect transistor have been designated 136 and 137.
The lower conductivity terminating region portions for this device have been redesignated 123' and 124' in view of the central portion of these lower conductivity regions having become part of the regions 136 and 137 and because of the greater depths reached by these lower conductivity terminating region portions. The depletion mode region has been redesignated 117" because this region has reached a greater depth of semiconductor material body 110.

The terminating regions, i.e., the drain and source regions, for the ordinary enhancement mode MOS
field-effect transistor have been redesignated 125' and 126' in view of the transforming of these regions from a p- con-ductivity to a p+ conductivity. The terminating regions for the ordinary depletion mode MOS field-effect transistor have been redesignated 127' and 128' for the same reason. The depletion mode region has been redesignated 118'' in view of its greater depth this region has reached in semiconductor material body 11~.

At this point, by a standard process, a photoresist layer is provided over layer 133 in which photoresist layer openings are provided which correspond to the desired locations for the external interconnection means to be provided. Silicon dioxide layer 133 is etched away using buffered HF beneath the openings provided in the photoresist layer. The external interconnection means is chosen here to be of metal although such means could be provided by doped polysilicon. The metal chosen is a copper-aluminum alloy and is deposited in a standard evapo-ration process as a layer of 2.0~m thickness. A photoresist layer is provided over this metal layer ln which openings are provided, all done in a standard process, at locations where no metal is desired. H3po4/HNo3/cH3cooH in a ratio of 50:1:5 is introduced as an etchant through these openings to remove the copper-aluminum alloy layer at these locations.
Thereafter, an annealing step is performed at 450C for 30 minutes. Finally, a passivating layer of silicon dioxide containing 1% phosphorus is deposited on the device in a standard chemical vapor deposition process.

The results of these steps-are shown in Figure 16G. Silicon dioxide layer 133, field regions 114''' and remnants 130', shown merged in Figure 16F as they were indicated above to be with the designation 133. This merged structure is designated 133' in Figure 16G after a portion has been removed therefrom to permit providing external interconnection means. The copper-aluminum alloy structures to form the external interconnection means have been designated 138 in Figure 16G. The passivating layer over external interconnection structures 138 and over silicon dioxide 133' is designated 139.

' `` ~' li4;Z~, The results shown in Figure 16G indicate how there can be simultaneously formed in one monolithic integrated circuit chip high breakdown voltage MOS field-effect devices, both enhancement mode and depletion mode, and ordi-nary MOS field-effect devices, again both enhancement mode and depletion mode. As noted above, the showing of several more terminating regions, i.e., source and drain regions, in the feature regions where the hlgh breakdown voltage MOS
field-effect transistors are formed would lead to a cross section for those devices ~hich could lead to the devices having geometry paralleling that of the devices shown in Pigures 2, 3A, 3B, 3C, 6 and 7.

The relatively high breakdown voltage devices, either the enhancement mode or the depletion mode device, formed by the above pEocess can be expected to have break-down voltages of from 40 volts to 100 volts. On the other : hand, the ordinary devices will have breakdown voltages under 30 volts. While the fabrication of p-channel devices has been shown, interchanging doping materials would lead to : ~ 20 a similar process for fabricating n-channel devices.

Claims (47)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or right is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A semiconductor device containing therein a first field-effect device provided in and on a first substrate at a first major surface thereof, said first substrate being of a first conductivity type, except in selected regions thereof, due to a first dopant being distributed therein, there being a plu-rality of said selected regions intersecting said first major surface in a first major surface portion, said field-effect device comprising:
a first field-effect device channel region located at least in part in said first substrate;
a pair of first field-effect device terminating regions each being of a second conductivity type and each being located in one of said selected regions intersecting said first major surface portion such that they are separated by said first field-effect device channel region, there being a pn junction separating each member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair from remaining portions of said first sub-strate, said first field-effect device terminating region pair having a second dopant distributed in each member leading to said second conductivity type;
a first field-effect device control gate region separated from said first major surface portion by a first insulating layer of a first thickness and located across said first insulating layer from said first field-effect device channel region;
a first field-effect device shield region separated from said first major surface by a second insulating layer of a second thickness and located across said second insulating layer from substantially all of both said member pn junctions where these said member pn junc-tions intersect said first major surface portion, said second thickness exceeding said first thickness by at least a quarter of said first thickness.
2. The device of claim 1 wherein concentrations of said first and second dopants and wherein said first and second insulating layer thicknesses are such that a reverse bias voltage applied across one of said member pn junctions can be sufficient-ly large to form a depletion region in its associated said member which extends completely through its associated said member with-out breakdown occurring across that said member pn junction.
3. The device of claim 1 wherein said first dopant has a maximum concentration of less than 2X1016 atoms/cm3 except in a threshold voltage adjust surface region adjacent to said first major surface portion wherein a selected first dopant threshold adjust surface region distribution is provided; and wherein each said first field-effect device terminating region pair member has therein a second dopant net distribution, as a result of said second dopant being in excess of said first dopant within said threshold voltage adjust surface region, leading to said second conductivity type where said second dopant net distribution comes about through having passed a maximum of 1x1013 atoms of said second dopant per unit area through said intersections of said first field-effect device terminating region pair members and said first major surface portion in excess of those first dopant atoms present immediately adjacent to these intersections.
4. The device of claim 1 wherein each of said first field-effect device terminating region pair members is formed as a composite of portion including a member region central portion and a member region enclosing portion where said member region enclosing portion is contiguous with and entirely surrounds said member region central portion in said first major surface por-tion, said member region central portion having a conductivity occurring therein exceeding that occurring in said member region enclosing portion.
5. The device of claim 1 wherein there is further comprised:
a first plurality of regions of a second conductivity type, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, each located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner as to intersect said first major surface portion in a first plurality of triangular surface portions completely separated in said first major surface portion and at least partly so by a first surface mesh formed by other portions of said first body portion, each said triangu-lar surface portion in said first plurality thereof having each of those edges serving as boundaries there-of, including an outer edge, substantially parallel to one edge in every other triangular surface portion in said first plurality of triangular surface portions, said first plurality of triangular surface portions being arranged along a first direction in said first major surface portion such that each said outer edge in each said triangular surface portion in said first plu-rality thereof is substantially parallel to said first direction; and a second plurality of regions of said second conductivity type located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner as to intersect said first major surface portion in a second plurality of triangular surface portions completely separated in said first major surface portion and at least partly so by a second surface mesh formed by other portions of said semicon-ductor material body, each said triangular surface por-tion in said second plurality thereof having each of those edges serving as boundaries thereof, including an outer edge, substantially parallel to one edge in every other triangular surface portion in said second plural-ity of triangular surface portions, said second plural-ity of triangular surface portions being arranged along said first direction such that each said outer edge in each said triangular surface portion in said second plurality thereof is substantially parallel to said first direction, said first and second pluralities of triangular surface portions being adjacent but spaced apart from one another in said first major surface por-tion by portions of said first and second meshes with an outer edge of every other triangular surface portion in first plurality thereof being located just across said spacing from an outer edge of a triangular surface portion in said second plurality thereof.
6. The device of claim 1 wherein there is further comprised a plurality of terminating regions, including a selected member of said first and second field-effect device terminating region pair, located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner that each intersects said first major surface portion in a triangular surface portion with every said triangular surface portion being completely separated at said first major surface portion from one another, there being interposed therebetween a separating surface in said first major surface portion formed by other portions of said first body por-tion, and further, with said separating surface being associated so that all of said separating surface may be viewed as being apportioned for assignment to an associated one of said triangu-lar surface portions in a manner to form extended triangular por-tions each containing therein its associated said triangular surface portion, said triangular surface portions being arranged with respect to one another in such a manner that said associated extended triangular surface portions form a densely packed hexag-onal matrix structure.
7. The device of claim 1 wherein there is further comprised:
a mesh surface in said first major surface portion with at least a portion of said mesh surface formed as an intersecting network in a mesh pattern having triangu-lar openings; and a plurality of regions, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, each included to have a surface thereof contained completely within one of said triangular openings.
8. The device of claim 1 wherein there is further comprised:
a plurality of regions of a second conductivity type, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, each located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner as to intersect said first major surface portion in a first plurality of quadrilateral surface portions completely separated in said first major surface portion and at least partly so by a first surface mesh formed by other portions of said first body portion, each said quadri-lateral surface portion in said first plurality thereof having each of those edges serving as boundaries there-of, including an outer edge, substantially parallel to one edge in every other quadrilateral surface portion in said first plurality of quadrilateral surface por-tions, said first plurality of quadrilateral surface portions being arranged along a first direction in said first major surface portion such that each said outer edge in each said quadrilateral surface portion in said first plurality thereof is substantially parallel to said first direction; and a second plurality of regions of said second conductivity type located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner as to intersect said first major surface portion in a second plurality of quadrilateral surface portions completely separated in said first major surface portion and at least partly so by a second surface mesh formed by other portions of said semicon-ductor material body, each said quadrilateral surface portion in said second plurality thereof having each of those edges serving as boundaries thereof, including an outer edge, substantially parallel to one edge in every other quadrilateral surface portion in said second plu-rality of quadrilateral surface portions, said second plurality of quadrilateral surface portions being arranged along said first direction such that each said outer edge in each said quadrilateral surface portion in said second plurality thereof is substantially parallel to said first direction, said first and second pluralities of quadrilateral surface portions being adjacent but spaced apart from one another in said first major surface portion by portions of said first and second meshes with an outer edge of every other quadrilateral surface portion in first plurality there-of being located just across said spacing from an outer edge of a quadrilateral surface portion in said second plurality thereof.
9. The device of claim 1 wherein there is further comprised a plurality of terminating regions, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner that each intersects said first major surface portion in a quadrilateral surface portion with every said source and said drain quadrilateral surface portion being completely separated at said first major surface from one another, there being interposed therebetween a separating surface in said first major surface portion formed by other portions of said first body portion, and further, with said separating surface being associated so that all of said separating surface may be viewed as being apportioned for assignment to an associated one of said quadrilateral surface portions in a manner to form extended quadrilateral surface por-tions each containing therein its associated said quadrilateral surface portion, said quadrilateral surface portions being arranged with respect to one another in such a manner that said associated extended quadrilateral surface portions form a densely packed rectangular matrix structure.
10. The device of claim 1 wherein there is further comprised:
a mesh surface in said first major surface portion with at least a portion of said mesh surface formed as an intersecting network in a mesh pattern having quadri-lateral openings; and a plurality of regions, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, each located to have a surface thereof contained completely within one of said quadrilateral openings.
11. The device of claim 1 wherein there is contained another transistor device.
12. The device of claim 1 wherein said first field-effect device control gate is electrically connected to said first field-effect device shield region.
13. The device of claim 4 wherein said first field-effect device shield region is located across said second insulating layer from also substantially all of both of said member region enclosing portions.
14. The device of claim 13 wherein each of said member enclosing portions is contiguous with its associated member cen-tral portion everywhere except on that surface of said associated member central portion formed by intersecting with said first major surface portion.
15. The device of claim 13 wherein there is contained another transistor device.
16. The device of claim 13 wherein said first field-effect device control gate region and said first field-effect device shield region are in direct electrical connection.
17. The device of claim 13 wherein said first field-effect device control gate region is electrically connected to said first field-effect device shield region.
18. A semiconductor device containing therein a first field-effect device provided in and on a first substrate at a first major surface thereof, said first substrate being of a first conductivity type, except in selected regions thereof, due to a first dopant being distributed therein, there being a plu-rality of said selected regions intersecting said first major surface in a first major surface portion, said field-effect device comprising:
a first field-effect device channel region located at least in part in said first substrate;

a pair of first field-effect device terminating regions each being of a second conductivity type and each being located in one of said selected regions intersecting said first major portion such that they are separated by said first field-effect device channel region, there being a pn junction separating each member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair from remaining portions of said first substrate, said first field-effect device terminating region pair having a second dopant distributed in each member leading to said second conductivity type, there being at least one member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair formed as a composite of portions including a member region central portion and a member region enclosing portion where said member region enclosing portion is contiguous with and entirely surrounds said member region central portion in said first major surface portion, said member region central portion having a conductivity occurring therein exceeding that a first field-effect device control gate region separated from said first major surface portion by a first insulating layer of a first thickness and located across said first insulating layer from said first field-effect device channel region;
a first field-effect device shield region separated from said first major surface by a second insulating layer of a second thickness and located across said second insulating layer from substantially all of that said member pn junction formed as a composite of portions where this said member pn junction intersects said first major surface portion.
19. The device of claim 18 wherein concentrations of said first and second dopants and wherein said first and second insulating layer thicknesses are such that a reverse bias volt-age, applied across that one of said member pn junctions formed as a composite of portions, can be sufficiently large to form a depletion region in its associated said member which extends com-pletely through its associated said member without breakdown occurring across that said member pn junction.
20. The device of claim 18 wherein said first dopant has a maximum concentration of less than 2x1016 atoms/cm3 except in a threshold voltage adjust surface region adjacent to said first major surface portion wherein a selected first dopant threshold adjust surface region distribution selectively is provided; and wherein said first field-effect device terminating region pair member formed as a composite of portions has therein a second dopant net distribution, as a result of said second dopant being in excess of said first dopant within said threshold voltage adjust surface region, leading to said second conductivi-ty type in said member region enclosing portion where said second dopant net distribution comes about through having passed a maxi-mum of 1x1013 atoms of said second dopant per unit area through said intersection of said member region enclosing portion and said first major surface portion in excess of those first dopant atoms present immediately adjacent to this intersection.
21. The device of claim 18 wherein each of said first field-effect device terminating region pair members is formed as a composite of portions so both include a member region central portion and a member region enclosing portion where said member region enclosing portion is contiguous with and entirely sur-rounds said member region central portion in said first major surface portion, said member region central portion having a con-ductivity occurring therein exceeding that occurring in said ??

member region enclosing portion, and wherein said first field-effect device shield region is located across said second insulating layer from substantially all of both said member pn junctions where these said member pn junctions intersect said first major surface portion.
22. The device of claim 18 wherein there is further comprised:
a first plurality of regions of a second conductivity type, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, each located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner as to intersect said first major surface portion in a first plurality of triangular surface portions completely separated in said first major surface portion and at least partly so by a first surface mesh formed by other portions of said first body portion, each said triangu-lar surface portion in said first plurality thereof having each of those edges serving as boundaries there-of, including an outer edge, substantially parallel to one edge in every other triangular surface portion in said first plurality of triangular surface portions, said first plurality of triangular surface portions being arranged along a first direction in said first major surface portion such that each said outer edge in each said triangular surface portion in said first plu-rality thereof is substantially parallel to said first direction; and a second plurality of regions of said second conductivity type located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner as to intersect said first major surface portion in a second plurality of triangular surface portions completely separated in said first major surface portion and at least partly so by a second surface mesh formed by other portions of said semicon-ductor material body, each said triangular surface por-tion in said second plurality thereof having each of those edges serving as boundaries thereof, including an outer edge, substantially parallel to one edge in every other triangular surface portion is said second plural-ity of triangular surface portions, said second plural-ity of triangular surface portions being arranged along said first direction such that each said outer edge in each said triangular surface portion in said second plurality thereof is substantially parallel to said first direction, said first and second pluralities of triangular surface portions being adjacent but spaced apart from one another in said first major surface por-tion by portions of said first and second meshes with an outer edge of every other triangular surface portion in first plurality thereof being located just across said spacing from an outer edge of a triangular surface portion in said second plurality thereof.
23. The device of claim 18 wherein there is further comprised a plurality of terminating regions, including a selected member of said first and second field-effect device terminating region pair, located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner that each intersects said first major surface portion in a triangular surface portion with every said triangular surface portion being completely separated at said first major surface portion from one another, there being interposed therebetween a separating surface in said first major surface portion formed by other portions of said first body por-tion, and further, with said separating surface being associated so that all of said separating surface may be viewed as being apportioned for assignment to an associated one of said triangu-lar surface portions in a manner to form extended triangular por-tions each containing therein its associated said triangular surface portion, said triangular surface portions being arranged with respect to one another in such a manner that said associated extended triangular surface portions form a densely packed hexag-onal matrix structure.
24. The device of claim 18 wherein there is further comprised: ' a mesh surface in said first major surface portion with at 'least a portion of said mesh surface formed as an intersecting network in a mesh pattern having triangu-- lar openings; and a plurality of regions, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, each included to have a surface thereof contained completely within one of said triangular openings.
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25. The device of claim 18 wherein there is further comprised:
a plurality of regions of a second conductivity type, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, each located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner as to intersect said first major surface portion in a first plurality of quadrilateral surface portions completely separated in said first major surface portion and at least partly so by a first surface mesh formed by other portions of said first body portion, each said quadri-lateral surface portion in said first plurality thereof having each of those edges serving as boundaries there-of, including an outer edge, substantially parallel to one edge in every other quadrilateral surface portion in said first plurality of quadrilateral surface por-tions, said first plurality of quadrilateral surface portions being arranged along a first direction in said first major surface portion such that each said outer edge in each said quadrilateral surface portion in said first plurality thereof is substantially parallel to said first direction; and a second plurality of regions of said second conductivity type located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner as to intersect said first major surface portion in a second plurality of quadrilateral surface portions completely separated in said first major surface portion and at least partly so by a second surface mesh formed by other portions of said semicon-ductor material body, each said quadrilateral surface portion in said second plurality thereof having each of those edges serving as boundaries thereof, including an outer edge, substantially parallel to one edge in every other quadrilateral surface portion in said second plu-rality of quadrilateral surface portions, said second plurality of quadrilateral surface portions being arranged along said first direction such that each said outer edge in each said quadrilateral surface portion in said second plurality thereof is substantially parallel to said first direction, said first and second pluralities of quadrilateral surface portions being adjacent but spaced apart from one another in said first major surface portion by portions of said first and second meshes with an outer edge of every other quadrilateral surface portion in first plurality there-of being located just across said spacing from an outer edge of a quadrilateral surface portion in said second plurality thereof.
26. The device of claim 18 wherein there is further comprised a plurality of terminating regions, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, located in said semiconductor material body in such a manner that each intersects said first major surface portion in a quadrilateral surface portion with every said source and said drain quadrilateral surface portion being completely separated at said first major surface from one another, there being interposed therebetween a separating surface in said first major surface portion formed by other portions of said first body portion, and further, with said separating surface being associated so that all of said separating surface may be viewed as being apportioned for assignment to an associated one of said quadrilateral surface portions in a manner to form extended quadrilateral portions each containing therein its associated said quadrilateral surface por-tion, said quadrilateral surface portions being arranged with respect to one another in such a manner that said associated extended quadrilateral surface portions form a densely packed rectangular matrix structure.
27. The device of claim 18 wherein there is further comprised:
a mesh surface in said first major surface portion with at least a portion of said mesh surface formed as an intersecting network in a mesh pattern having quadri-lateral openings; and a plurality of regions, including a selected member of said first field-effect device terminating region pair, each located to have a surface thereof contained completely within one of said quadrilateral openings.
28. The device of claim 18 wherein there is contained another transistor device.
29. The device of claim 18 wherein said first field-effect device control gate is electrically connected to said first field-effect device shield region.
30. The device of claim 21 wherein said first field-effect device shield region is located across said second insulating layer from also substantially all of both of said member region enclosing portions.
31. The device of claim 30 wherein each of said member enclosing portions is contiguous with its associated member cen-tral portion everywhere except on that surface of said associated member central portion formed by intersecting with said first major surface portion.
32. The device of claim 30 wherein there is contained another transistor device.
33. The device of claim 30 wherein said first field-effect device control gate region and said first field-effect device shield region are in direct electrical connection.
34. The device of claim 30 wherein said first field-effect device control gate region is electrically connected to said first field-effect device shield region.
35. A method for constructing a field-effect transis-tor device at an outer major surface of a first semiconductor material body of a first conductivity type, said method comprising:
providing a first electrical insulating layer of a first thickness on said outer major surface, at least at a first major surface portion, said first insulating lay-er having a first insulating layer major surface on a side thereof opposite that side thereof which is in contact with said first major surface portion;

providing a first gate region on at least a portion of said.
first insulating layer major surface across said first insulating layer from less than all of said first major surface portion;
providing at least two lesser conductivity terminating region portions of a second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting-said first major surface portion and spaced apart in said first major surface portion to thereby form at least two spaced apart intersection surfaces in said outer major surface, there being pn junctions resulting about each of said lesser conductivity terminating region portions separating these regions from remaining portions of said first semiconductor material body with these said pn junctions intersecting said first major surface por-tion to form a boundary about each of said intersection surfaces in said first major surface portion, said first gate region being directly across said first insulating layer from that space in said first major surface portion separating said two intersection surfaces;
providing a second electrical insulating layer of a second thickness on said first gate region and extending beyond said first gate region to be across from sub-stantially all of each said lesser conductivity terminating region portion, said second insulating lay-er having a second insulating layer major surface on a side thereof opposite that side thereof which is in contact with said first gate region;
providing a first shield region on at least a portion of said second insulating layer major surface across from said first gate region and across from each of said lesser conductivity terminating region portions, but across from less than all of each of said lesser con-ductivity terminating region portions at least by vir-tue of a plurality of openings each provided through said first shield region and across from a contact surface located entirely within each said intersection surface; and providing higher conductivity terminating region portions of said second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said first major surface portion at each of said contact surfaces across from each corresponding said opening in said first shield region, said higher conductivity terminating region portions having a conductivity occurring therein exceeding that occurring in those said lesser conduc-tivity terminating region portions remaining after said providing of said higher conductivity terminating region portions.
36. The method of claim 35 wherein said providing of said first insulating layer is preceded by providing a low con-ductivity channel region of said second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said first major surface portion.
37. The method of claim 35 wherein said providing of said first insulating layer is preceded by providing low conduc-tivity terminating region portions of said second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said first major surface portion with at least one provided around each location for a contact surface portion.
38. The method of claim 35 wherein said first insulating layer is also provided at a second major surface por-tion simultaneously with providing said first insulating layer at said first major surface portion but which is preceded by providing a low conductivity channel region of a second conduc-tivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said second major surface portion, said providing a said first insulating layer being followed by (i) providing a second gate region on said first insulating layer major surface across said first insulating layer from said second major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (ii) thereafter providing at least two further lesser conductivity terminating region portions of a second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said second major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said two lesser conductivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion and in a similar manner, by (iii) thereafter providing said second electrical insulating layer on said second gate region simultane-ously with providing said second insulating layer on said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (iv) thereafter providing a second shield region on said second insulating layer major surface across from said second gate region simultaneously with said providing of said first shield region and in a similar man-ner, and finally by (v) thereafter providing at least two further higher conductivity terminating region portions of said second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body inter-secting said second major surface portion simultaneously with providing said higher conductivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion and in a similar manner.
39. The method of claim 35 wherein said first insulating layer is also provided at a second major surface por-tion simultaneously with providing said first insulating layer at said first major surface portion and is followed by (i) providing a second gate region on said first insulating layer major surface across said first insulating layer from said second major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (ii) thereafter providing at least two further lesser conductivity terminating region portions of a second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said second major surface portion simultaneously with providing said two lesser conductivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion and in a similar manner, by (iii) thereafter providing said second elec-trical insulating layer on said second gate region simultaneously with said providing of said second electrical insulating layer on said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (iv) there-after avoiding any permanent provision of said first shield region on any portion of said second insulating layer across from said second major surface portion, and finally by (v) thereafter providing at least two further higher conductivity terminating region portions of said second conductivity type in said semicon-ductor material body intersecting said second major surface por-tion at those locations where said further lesser conductivity terminating region portions intersect said second major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said higher conduc-tivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion and in a similar manner.
40. The method of claim 35 wherein said lesser conduc-tivity terminating region portions and said higher conductivity terminating region portions are provided, at least in part, by ion implantation with having passed a maximum of 1x10 ions of that dopant leading to said second conductivity type in said lesser conductivity terminating region portions per square centi-meter through said intersection surfaces in excess of those dopant atoms leading to said first conductivity type in said semiconductor material body immediately adjacent said intersec-tion surfaces.
41. The method of claim 35 wherein said providing of said first insulating layer is preceded by providing a field insulating means intimately bound to said first semiconductor material body which is immediately adjacent to and substantially surrounds said first major surface portion in said outer major surface.
42. The method of claim 36 wherein said first insulating layer is also provided at a second major surface por-tion simultaneously with providing said first insulating layer at said first major surface portion and is followed by (i) providing a second gate region on said first insulating layer major surface across said first insulating layer from said second major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (ii) thereafter providing at least two further lesser conductivity terminating region portions of a second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said second major surface portion simultaneously with providing said two lesser conductivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion and in a similar manner, by (iii) thereafter providing said second elec-trical insulating layer on said second gate region simultaneously with said providing of said second electrical insulating layer on said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (iv) there-after avoiding any permanent provision of said first shield region on any portion of said second insulating layer across from said second major surface portion, and finally by (v) thereafter providing higher conductivity terminating region portions of said second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said first major surface portions at those locations where said further lesser conductivity terminating region por-tions intersects said second major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said higher conductivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion.
43. The method of claim 37 wherein said first insulating layer is also provided at a second major surface por-tion simultaneously with providing said first insulating layer at said first major surface portion and is followed by (i) providing a second gate region on said first insulating layer major surface across said first insulating layer from said second major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (ii) thereafter providing at least two further lesser conductivity terminating region portions of a second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said second major surface portion simultaneously with providing said two lesser conductivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion and in a similar manner, by (iii) thereafter providing said second elec-trical insulating layer on said second gate region simultaneously with said providing of said second electrical insulating layer on said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (iv) thereafter avoiding any permanent provision of said first shield region on any portion of said second insulating layer across from said second major surface portion, and finally by (v) thereafter providing higher conductivity terminating region portions of said second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said first major surface portions at those locations where said further lesser conductivity terminating region portions intersects said second major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said higher conduc-tivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion.
44. The method of claim 38 wherein said first insulating layer is also provided at a third major surface por-tion simultaneously with providing said first insulating layer at said first major surface portion and is followed by (i) providing a third gate region on said first insulating layer major surface across said first insulating layer from said third major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (ii) thereafter providing at least two further lesser conductivity terminating region portions of a second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body intersecting said third major surface portion simultaneously with providing said two lessee conductivity terminating region por-tions intersecting said first major surface portion and in a sim-ilar manner, by (iii) thereafter providing said second electrical insulating layer on said third gate region simultaneously with said providing of said second electrical insulating layer on said first gate region and in a similar manner, by (iv) thereafter avoiding any permanent provision of said first shield region on any portion of said third insulating layer across from said third major surface portion, and finally by (v) thereafter providing higher conductivity terminating region portions of said second conductivity type in said semiconductor material body inter-secting said third major surface portion at those locations where said latter further lesser conductivity terminating region por-tions intersect said third major surface portion simultaneously with said providing of said higher conductivity terminating region portions intersecting said first major surface portion.
45. The method of claim 42 wherein said lesser conduc-tivity terminating region portions and said higher conductivity terminating region portions are provided, at least in part, by ion implantation with having passed a maximum of 1x1013 ions of that dopant leading to said second conductivity terminating region portions per square centimeter through said intersection surface portions in excess of those dopant atoms leading to said first conductivity type in said semiconductor material body imme-diately adjacent said intersection surfaces.
46. The method of claim 43 wherein said lesser conduc-tivity terminating region portions and said higher-conductivity terminating region portions are provided, at least in part, by ion implantation with having passed a maximum of 1x1013 ions of that dopant leading to said second conductivity terminating region portions per square centimeter through said intersection surface portions in excess of those dopant atoms leading to said first conductivity type in said semiconductor material body imme-diately adjacent said intersection surfaces.
47. The method of claim 44 wherein said lesser conduc-tivity terminating region portions and said higher conductivity terminating region portions are provided, at least in part, by ion implantation with having passed a maximum of 1x1013 ions of that dopant leading to said second conductivity terminating region portions per square centimeter through said intersection surfaces in excess of those dopant atoms leading to said first conductivity type in said semiconductor material body immediately adjacent said intersection surfaces.
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