Patent ID: 8207031

Claim:
A method of forming, on a substrate, a first lateral high-voltage MOS transistor and a second lateral high-voltage MOS transistor complementary to said first one, wherein said first and second lateral high-voltage MOS transistors, comprise drift regions, the method comprising the steps: providing a substrate of a first conductivity type including a first active region for said first lateral high-voltage MOS transistor and a second active region for said second lateral high-voltage MOS transistor; forming at least one first doped region of the first conductivity type in the first active region and forming in the second active region a drain extension region of the second conductivity type extending from a substrate surface to an interior of the substrate, including a concurrent implantation of dopants through mask openings of one and the same mask into the first and second active regions, wherein the forming of the at least one first doped region is a sub step of a superior step of forming a double RESURF structure in the first lateral high-voltage MOS transistor, and wherein forming the double RESURF structure comprises: forming doped RESURF regions as two first doped regions, one thereof above and one thereof below the drift region of the first lateral high-voltage MOS transistor, and as two further doped regions, one thereof above and one thereof below the drain extension regions of the second lateral high-voltage MOS transistor, wherein the first doped RESURF regions have an inverse conductivity type with respect to the drift region and the further doped regions have inverse conductivity type as compared to the drain extension region.