Patent ID: 8525258

Claim:
A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate having a doped region, wherein the doped region includes a first region and a second region with different impurity concentrations; and an epitaxial layer on the substrate such that the doped region becomes a buried layer, the epitaxial layer including: a first well region which contacts with the first region in the substrate, wherein the first well region has the same conductivity type as the doped region; and a second well region which contacts with the second region in the substrate, wherein the second well region has the opposite conductivity type to the doped region; wherein the doped region is formed by a single doping step in which the first region and the second region are masked by patterns with different densities; and wherein the second region has a lower or higher impurity concentration in comparison with the first region, to form a higher or lower breakdown voltage between the second well region and the second region in comparison with a case where the second region has the same impurity concentration as the first region.