Suppression of Hot-Hole Injection in High-Voltage Triple RESURF LDMOS With Sandwich N-P-N Layer: Toward High-Performance and High-Reliability

Abstract

Hot-hole induced burnout phenomenon in a high-voltage triple reduced surface field (RESURF) LDMOS with sandwich N-P-N layer is investigated in this work. The sandwich N-P-N structure is employed in the drift region of LDMOS to obtain a further optimized trade-off between specific on-resistance (R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">on,sp</sub> ) and breakdown voltage (BV). However, experimental results show that the BV drops in the off-state with a period time of 2.7 s and the device burns out. To solve this problem, the corresponding burnout mechanism is analyzed and its countermeasure is proposed and demonstrated by simulation and experiment. As a result, a competitive performance with a low R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">on,sp</sub> of 32.38 mΩ·cm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> and a high BV of 535 V without burnout is achieved for the triple RESURF LDMOS with sandwich N-P-N layer.