Method for manufacturing static induction type semiconductor device enhancement mode power

A method for manufacturing a static induction type semiconductor device for use as an enhancement mode power semiconductor device, the method comprising the steps of:

• preparing a semiconductor substrate having impurity diffusion zones constituting gate zones on a surface side of said substrate and an oxide film covering said surface side,
• providing first apertures through said oxide film for forming impurity diffusion zones constituting cathode zones partly overlapping said impurity diffusion zones constituting the gates zones,
• forming said impurity diffusion zones constituting said cathode zones with an impurity diffused through said first apertures by means of a thermal diffusion,
• providing second apertures through said oxide film on said impurity diffusion zones constituting said gate zones, while leaving said oxide film as a thin oxide film produced to be less than about 50 .ANG. within said first apertures during said thermal diffusion for said impurity diffusion zones constituting the cathode zones, said second apertures being for use as contact apertures allowing gate electrodes to contact said gate zones,
• forming third apertures by removing said thin oxide film produced within the first apertures through a slight etching and without any masking, said third apertures being thus formed for use as contact apertures allowing cathode electrodes to contact said cathode zones at the same positions and with the same size as the first apertures for forming the impurity diffusion zones constituting the cathode zones relying only on positioning precision of a required mask for forming the first apertures,
• forming said gate electrodes through said second apertures and said cathode electrodes through said third apertures respectively on the impurity diffusion zones constituting the gate zones and on the impurity diffusion zones constituting the cathode zones, and
• providing an anode electrode on an impurity diffusion zone constituting an anode zone formed on reverse side of the substrate.