Patent ID: 7875951

Claim:
A semiconductor component arrangement comprising an active semiconductor component which can assume an on state and an off state and comprising: a semiconductor body comprising a first semiconductor zone, a third semiconductor zone, and also a second semiconductor zone of a first conduction type, the second semiconductor zone being arranged between the first semiconductor zone and the third semiconductor zone and being formed as a drift zone; a patterned fourth semiconductor zone arranged in the second semiconductor zone of a second conduction type, which is complementary to the first conduction type; a first potential control structure, connected to the patterned fourth semiconductor zone and is configured to feed to the patterned fourth semiconductor zone in the off state of the semiconductor component an electrical potential lying between the electrical potential of the first semiconductor zone and the electrical potential of the third semiconductor zone, and/or is connected to the patterned fourth semiconductor zone and is configured to connect the patterned fourth semiconductor zone, upon the semiconductor component being switched on, for discharging the fourth semiconductor zone, to an electrical potential lying between the electrical potential of the first semiconductor zone and the electrical potential of the third semiconductor zone.