Patent ID: 8759935

Claim:
A power semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; an active device region disposed in the semiconductor substrate; an edge termination region disposed in the semiconductor substrate between the active device region and a lateral edge of the semiconductor substrate; a trench disposed in the edge termination region which extends from a first surface of the semiconductor substrate toward a second opposing surface of the semiconductor substrate, the trench having an inner sidewall, an outer sidewall and a bottom, the inner sidewall spaced further from the lateral edge of the semiconductor substrate than the outer sidewall; and a doped region at the first surface laterally extending from the lateral edge of the semiconductor substrate to the outer sidewall of the trench and vertically extending from the first surface to a boundary of the doped region and the semiconductor substrate, wherein an upper portion of the outer sidewall is doped opposite to the inner sidewall and the bottom of the trench and extends from the boundary toward the second opposing surface of the semiconductor substrate.