Patent ID: 7126186

Claim:
A compensation component, comprising: a semiconductor body having: a first electrode; a second electrode; a drift zone disposed between said first and second electrodes, said drift zone including a first region closer to said first electrode than to said second electrode and a second region closer to said second electrode than to said first electrode, said first region directly adjoining said second region; more highly doped zones of a first conductivity type being inlaid in a more weakly doped environment of a second conductivity type only in said first region of said drift zone; more highly doped zones of said second conductivity type being inlaid in a more weakly doped environment of said first conductivity type only in said second region of said drift zone; and said drift zone being complementary so that, in a direction between said first and second electrodes, a more highly doped zone of said first conductivity type adjoins a more weakly doped environment of said first conductivity type, and a more weakly doped environment of said second conductivity type adjoins a more highly doped zone of said second conductivity type; said more highly doped zone of said second conductivity type and said more weakly doped environment of said second conductivity type forming compensation regions disposed to produce coherent compensation pillars of said second conductivity type in said drift zone otherwise doped with a dopant of said first conductivity type; said compensation regions being doped to such an extent that a maximum electric field strength occurs at a boundary between said first region and said second region and the space charges thereof compensate each other.