Experimental and theoretical study of an improved breakdown voltage SOI LDMOS with a reduced cell pitch

An improved breakdown voltage （BV） SOI power MOSFET with a reduced cell pitch is proposed and fabricated. Its breakdown characteristics are investigated numerically and experimentally. The MOSFET features dual trenches （DTMOS）, an oxide trench between the source and drain regions, and a trench gate extended to the buried oxide （BOX）. The proposed device has three merits. First, the oxide trench increases the electric field strength in the x-direction due to the lower permittivity of oxide （eox） than that of Si （esi）. Furthermore, the trench gate, the oxide trench, and the BOX cause multi-directional depletion, improving the electric field distribution and enhancing the RESURF （reduced surface field） effect. Both increase the BV. Second, the oxide trench folds the drift region along the y-direction and thus reduces the cell pitch. Third, the trench gate not only reduces the on-resistance, but also acts as a field plate to improve the BV. Additionally, the trench gate achieves the isolation between high-voltage devices and the low voltage CMOS devices in a high-voltage integrated circuit （HVIC）, effectively saving the chip area and simplifying the isolation process. An 180 V prototype DTMOS with its applied drive IC is fabricated to verify the mechanism.     

具有L型低阻导电通道的介质场增强SOI LDMOS

A low specific on-resistance（R on;sp/ SOI NBL TLDMOS（silicon-on-insulator trench LDMOS with an N buried layer） is proposed. It has three features： a thin N buried layer（NBL） on the interface of the SOI layer/buried oxide（BOX） layer, an oxide trench in the drift region, and a trench gate extended to the BOX layer.First, on the on-state, the electron accumulation layer forms beside the extended trench gate; the accumulation layer and the highly doping NBL constitute an L-shaped low-resistance conduction path, which sharply decreases the R on;sp. Second, in the y-direction, the BOX＇s electric field（E-field） strength is increased to 154 V/ m from48 V/ m of the SOI Trench Gate LDMOS（SOI TG LDMOS） owing to the high doping NBL. Third, the oxide trench increases the lateral E-field strength due to the lower permittivity of oxide than that of Si and strengthens the multiple-directional depletion effect. Fourth, the oxide trench folds the drift region along the y-direction and thus reduces the cell pitch. Therefore, the SOI NBL TLDMOS structure not only increases the breakdown voltage（BV）, but also reduces the cell pitch and R on;sp. Compared with the TG LDMOS, the NBL TLDMOS improves the BV by 105% at the same cell pitch of 6 m, and decreases the R on;sp by 80% at the same BV.     

High voltage SOI LDMOS with a compound buried layer

An SOI LDMOS with a compound buried layer (CBL) was proposed. The CBL consists of an upper buried oxide layer (UBOX) with a Si window and two oxide steps, a polysilicon layer and a lower buried oxide layer (LBOX). In the blocking state, the electric field strengths in the UBOX and LBOX are increased from 88 V/μm of the buried oxide (BOX) in a conventional SOI (C-SOI) LDMOS to 163 V/μm and 460 V/μm by the holes located on the top interfaces of the UBOX and LBOX, respectively. Compared with the C-SOI LDMOS, the CBL LDMOS increases the breakdown voltage from 477 to 847 V, and lowers the maximal temperature by 6 K.