Patent ID: 8716826

Claim:
A semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type having a first major surface; an anode diffusion region of a second conductivity type in a surface portion on a side of a semiconductor substrate having the first major surface; an edge termination region surrounding the anode diffusion region in said surface portion on the first major surface side of the semiconductor substrate; an anode electrode on the anode diffusion region, the anode electrode including a first area in ohmic contact with the anode diffusion region and having a second area above an edge area of the anode diffusion region, the second area of the anode electrode being above a surface of the edge area of the anode diffusion region between an outer edge of the first area of the anode electrode and an outer edge of the anode diffusion region; an insulator film interposed between the second area of the anode electrode and the edge area of the anode diffusion region; and a ring-shaped fourth metal film on the insulator film on the edge area of the anode diffusion region, the fourth metal film being in contact with the surface of the edge area of the anode diffusion region via an opening formed through the insulator film and being separated from the anode electrode, a width W FFM of the ring shape of the fourth metal film being not smaller than 10 μm, and a ratio W FFM to a shortest distance W ACT from among distances of lines that extend perpendicularly from the geometrical barycenter of the first major surface side of the anode diffusion region up to respective sides of a polygon defined by an outer edge of the anode diffusion region, being W FFM /W ACT ≦0.3.