Title:
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH A SCHOTTKY JUNCTION
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO1999012188
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
Devices with Schottky junctions are manufactured in that a semiconductor body (10) with a substrate (11) is provided with a first, for example n-type semiconductor region (1) in the form of an epitaxial layer. A Schottky metal (4) is locally provided thereon. A second semiconductor region (2) is advantageously formed directly below the Schottky metal (4), with the purpose of adjusting the level of the Schottky barrier. Around this, a third semiconductor region (3) is formed in the first region (1) at at least two sides, which third region is then of the p-conductivity type and, when it entirely surrounds the second region (2), forms a so-called guard ring (3). A disadvantage of the above known method is that the devices obtained thereby have a (forward) current-voltage characteristic which is not very well controllable and reproducible. This hampers mass manufacture. To counteract this disadvantage, a method according to the invention provides the formation of the second semiconductor region (2) by means of low-temperature gas phase epitaxy, such that it has the first or the second conductivity type, and the third region (3) is formed by means of ion implantation, the second semiconductor region (2) being formed after the third region (3) has been formed. Devices are obtained thereby whose current-voltage characteristics can be adjusted over a wide range with very good reproducibility and well controlled. The second semiconductor region (2) may be provided over the entire surface or selectively within the third region (3) only.
Inventors:
BROWN ADAM RICHARD
DE BOER WIEBE BARTELD
DE BOER WIEBE BARTELD
Application Number:
PCT/IB1998/001240
Publication Date:
May 27, 1999
Filing Date:
August 12, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV (NL)
PHILIPS SVENSKA AB (SE)
PHILIPS SVENSKA AB (SE)
International Classes:
H01L21/00; H01L21/329; H01L21/338; H01L29/47; H01L29/812; H01L29/872; (IPC1-7): H01L29/872; H01L21/205; H01L21/66
Foreign References:
| US4310362A | 1982-01-12 | |||
| US4481041A | 1984-11-06 | |||
| US4260431A | 1981-04-07 | |||
| US4096622A | 1978-06-27 | |||
| US4089020A | 1978-05-09 |
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