Electronic device with connecting structure
AssigneeInfineon Technologies Austria AG
InventorsFranz Hirler, Markus Zundel
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Abstract
A connecting structure for an electronic device includes an edge region of the device, a first trench and a second trench running toward the edge region, a first electrode within the first trench, and a second electrode within the second trench, the first and second electrodes being arranged in a same electrode plane with regard to a main surface of a substrate of the electronic device within the trenches, and the first electrode extending, at an edge region side end of the first trench, farther toward the edge region than the second electrode extends, at an edge region side end of the second trench, toward the edge region.
Claims11
A semiconductor device including a connecting structure comprising:
- a first edge region;
- a second edge region opposite the first edge region;
- a central region arranged between the first edge region and the second edge region;
- first, second, and third trenches running toward the first edge region and the second edge region;
- a first electrode within the first trench, a second electrode within the second trench, and a third electrode within the third trench,
- the first, second, and third electrodes being arranged in an electrode plane arranged with regard to a main surface of a substrate of the electronic device;
- the first electrode extending farther into the first edge region than the second electrode and the third electrode;
- the third electrode extending farther into the second edge region than the first electrode and the second electrode;
- the first and third electrodes not extending into the central region;
- the first electrode and the third electrode being arranged on a straight connecting line;
- the second electrode being arranged offset to the connecting line;
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- the first electrode and the third electrode being contacted with a connection structure for a first potential, and the second electrode being connected with a connection structure for a second potential,
- wherein the second trench extends through the central region, wherein a first portion of the second trench and a portion of the first trench are arranged side by side in a lateral direction with respect to the main surface of the substrate and wherein a second portion of the second trench and a portion of the third trench are arranged side by side in the lateral direction with respect to the main surface of the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.