Patent ID: 7973362

Claim:
A semiconductor component comprising: a semiconductor body having an edge with an edge zone of a first conductivity type; charge compensation regions of a second conductivity type embedded into the edge zone, the charge compensation regions extending from a top side of the semiconductor component vertically into the semiconductor body; wherein for the number N s of charge carriers present in a volume V s between two charge compensation regions that are adjacent in a direction perpendicular to the edge of the semiconductor body, and for the number N p of charge carriers present in a volume V p between two charge compensation regions that are adjacent in a direction parallel to the edge, N p >N s holds true; where V s and V p have the same cross-section areas but different lengths, and where the length of volume V s is equal to the distance between two adjacent vertical planes of compensation regions and the length of volume V p is equal to the distance between two adjacent horizontal planes of charge compensation regions; wherein the charge compensation regions are spaced apart further from one another in a direction parallel to the edge of the semiconductor body than in a direction perpendicular to the edge of the semiconductor body, in plan view; and wherein the charge compensation regions are arranged in the edge zone in such a way that their top sides form grid points of an orthogonal grid on the top side of the semiconductor component, wherein the distances between adjacent grid planes are larger in the direction parallel to the edge of the semiconductor body than in the direction perpendicular to the edge of the semiconductor body.