Patent ID: 7687912

Claim:
A semiconductor component comprising: a semiconductor body including a front side and a plurality of cell strips, each cell strip having a terminal zone of a first type arranged on the front side and a terminal zone of a second type arranged on the front side; a patterned first metallization layer arranged on the front side of the semiconductor body, the first metallization layer including a first plurality of conductive lines; a patterned second metallization layer succeeding the first metallization layer on the front side of the semiconductor body, the second metallization layer including a second plurality of conductive lines, wherein the second plurality of conductive lines in the second metallization layer cross the first plurality of conductive lines of the first metallization layer at crossover locations, and wherein the second plurality of conductive lines in the second metallization layer are electrically conductively connected at predetermined crossover locations to the first plurality of conductive lines of the first metallization layer; and a patterned third metallization layer succeeding the second metallization layer on the front side of the semiconductor body; wherein the third metallization layer includes a first section and a second section spaced apart from the first section, the terminal zones of the first type being electrically conductively connected to the first section and the terminal zones of the second type being electrically conductively connected to the second section; wherein the first section of the third metallization layer includes a first number of elongate extensions running parallel to one another and in a first longitudinal direction, wherein the second section of the third metallization layer has a second number of elongate extensions running parallel to one another in the first longitudinal direction, and wherein the first number of elongate extensions of the first section and the second number of elongate extensions of the second section intermesh; wherein the second section of the third metallization layer has a second partial section which extends in a second longitudinal direction, and wherein the second number of elongate extensions of the second section of the third metallization layer form an angle greater than 0° and less than or equal to 90° with the second partial section; and wherein the second partial section of the second section of the third metallization layer has a width that is monotonically or strictly monotonically variable with the second longitudinal direction.