Patent ID: 7084438

Claim:
A semiconductor power component including a front side and a reverse side, comprising: an anode contact situated on the reverse side; an emitter region having a first conductor type situated on the reverse side and coupled to the anode contact; a drift zone coupled to the emitter region and partially extending toward the front side, the drift zone including a first drift region having the second conductor type, a second drift region having the second conductor type and a third drift region having the first conductor type, the first drift region being a buried region, the second drift region coupling the front side to the first drift region; an MOS control structure including: a source region having the second conductor type, a first body region having the first conductor type, an emitter region having the second conductor type, a second body region having the first conductor type, the second body region enclosing the emitter region, and a control contact, wherein each of the source region, the first body region, the emitter region and the second body region are incorporated into the drift zone, the second body region bordering on the first body region, the control contact being situated in an insulating manner above the second body region, above and bordering a part of the drift zone and reaching the front side, above the first and the second body regions and between the source region and the emitter region; and a cathode contact situated on the front side and coupled to the source region and the first body region; wherein the third drift region couples the first body region and the second body region to the first drift region, and a degree of compensation determined by the second drift region and the third drift region is greater than one and has a maximum in a region of a side of the third drift region facing away from the front side.