Patent ID: 8102012

Claim:
A transistor component, comprising: a source terminal, a drain terminal and control terminal; a source zone of a first conductivity type, connected to the source terminal; a drain zone of the first conductivity type, connected to the drain terminal; a drift zone arranged between the source zone and the drain zone; a junction control structure for controlling a junction zone in the drift zone between the drain zone and the source zone, at least comprising one control zone; and a shielding structure being arranged in the drift zone between the junction control structure and the drain zone and at least including a shielding zone of a second conductivity type being complementarily to the first conductivity type, the shielding zone being connected to a terminal for a shielding potential, and the at least one control zone and the at least one shielding zone have different geometries or different orientations in a plane that is perpendicular to a current flow direction of the component.