Semiconductor device including insulated gate bipolar transistor element and freewheeling diode element
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a single semiconductor substrate on which an IGBT region including an IGBT element and an FWD region including a FWD element are formed. In the semiconductor device, a cathode layer is formed with a carrier injection layer, which is electrically connected to a second electrode and has a PN junction with a field stop layer. When a first carrier in the FWD element passes through the field stop layer on the carrier injection layer and flows into the cathode layer in a situation where a forward-biased current is cut off from a state in which the forward-biased current is flowing through the FWD element, a second carrier is injected from the second electrode into a drift layer through the carrier injection layer.
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