Agere Systems Guardian Corp.

Julie Eng

Jerome Levkoff

Daniel C Sutryn

Anthony D Mazzatesta

Erick John Michel

The invention is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device involving selectively etching at least a first semiconductor layer on a semiconductor wafer so as to perform a lateral taper etch in said layer, forming a second layer over the resulting etched region so as to planarize the etched area, and subsequently performing a second etch over a portion of the etched region so as to form a mesa geometry. This material allows device fabrication with a lateral taper, beneficial to monolithic integration of devices, such as expanded beam lasers, while reducing or eliminating unwanted increases in mesa width (mesa bulge) resulting from the lateral taper.

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Upper Macungie Township, PA, United States of America

Julie Eng