The main static parameters for a Power-MOSFET are the on-resistance and the breakdown voltage. One goal in Power-MOSFET development is to optimize the trade-off between these two parameters. One possibility for optimization, especially for High-Voltage-Power-MOSFETs (VDS > 200 V), is the introduction of compensation structures, also called superjunction structures. Those compensation structures are used in the driftzone of the Power-MOSFET and characterized by the fact, that charges of the driftzone are compensated by mirror charges. Due to that compensation it is possible to use higher doping concentrations than usual in the driftzone. This helps to reduce the on-resistance while keeping the same breakdown voltage. This work investigates one type of compensation structures for lateral Power-MOSFETs, that is a stack of n- and p-doped layers. The goal of this investigation is to optimize this structure up to its physical limits. For this, spatially extremely concentrated doping profiles, also known as delta-doping profiles, were used. This work has three main subject areas. First, analytical investigations concerning the optimization of lateral compensation structures are presented. Two main optimization paths can be derived from there, one consists in spatially concentrating only the p-doped layers, the other one is to spatially concentrate the p-doped layers as well as the n-doped layers. Both possibilities are pursued in simulation and in the experimental work. Therefore it was necessary to develop a suitable technology process, that is presented in the second part of this work, followed by the optimization results of the simulation and the experiments, the third section of this work. Among these results a method for optimizing compensation structures in simulation is described that requires only to know the structure in equilibrium conditions and therefore shortens the simulation time.
«The main static parameters for a Power-MOSFET are the on-resistance and the breakdown voltage. One goal in Power-MOSFET development is to optimize the trade-off between these two parameters. One possibility for optimization, especially for High-Voltage-Power-MOSFETs (VDS > 200 V), is the introduction of compensation structures, also called superjunction structures. Those compensation structures are used in the driftzone of the Power-MOSFET and characterized by the fact, that charges of the drift...
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