Patent ID: 8889514

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a trench MOSFET having a top side drain, comprising: forming an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type onto a substrate of the first conductivity type, wherein said epitaxial layer has a lower doping concentration than said substrate; applying a trench mask and etching a plurality of trenches to a determined depth in said epitaxial layer, wherein said trenches include: a plurality of gate trenches in an active area, a gate contact trench in a gate contact area and a wide trench in a termination area; forming a gate oxide layer along inner surfaces of all said trenches and depositing gate material onto said gate oxide layer to fill into said trenches; applying a sinker mask and carrying out sinker dopant ion implantation to form a sinker region heavily doped of the first conductivity type in said epitaxial layer underneath said wide trench; carrying out a body dopant ion implantation over entire top surface without a body mask and performing body diffusion step to form body region of a second conductivity type; depositing a thick oxide layer onto the entire top surface to function as a contact interlayer; applying a contact mask and etching said contact interlayer to form a plurality of contact holes to expose a part top surface of said epitaxial layer; carrying out source dopant ion implantation without a source mask over the entire top surface; performing a source dopant diffusion to laterally diffuse said source dopant from a center portion between two adjacent gate trenches in said active area to adjacent channel regions; etching said epitaxial layer to further extend said contact holes in said epitaxial layer; forming a contact metal plug in each of said contact holes.