Patent ID: 8871643

Claim:
A manufacturing method for manufacturing a lateral semiconductor device having an SOI (Silicon on Insulator) substrate, the lateral semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor layer that includes a buried oxide layer and a drift region, the manufacturing method comprising: forming a first trench by etching a portion of a LOCOS oxide, the LOCOS oxide having been formed at a surface portion of the drift region, a portion of the LOCOS oxide extending in a thickness direction to a predetermined depth beneath the surface of the drift region, the first trench extending from a surface of the LOCOS oxide through the entire thickness of the LOCOS oxide to reach a position corresponding to the predetermined depth beneath the surface of the drift region, and then simultaneously forming a second trench extending from a portion of the surface of the drift region not covered by LOCOS oxide toward the buried oxide layer by etching, while extending the first trench by continuing etching of the first trench toward the buried oxide layer, at a same etching rate, and stopping forming the first trench and the second trench at a time when the first trench reaches the buried oxide layer.