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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2024
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Andrew J. Walker, Mountain View, CA (US);
Clifford Ian Drowley, Los Altos, CA (US);
Subhash Srinivas Pidaparthi, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew P. Edwards, San Jose, CA (US);
Shahin Sharifzadeh, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joseph Tandingan, Cupertino, CA (US);
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
A method of clamping a voltage includes providing a fin-based field effect transistor (FinFET) device. The FinFET device includes an array of FinFETs. Each FinFET includes a source contact electrically coupled to a fin and a gate contact. The method also includes applying the voltage to the source contact and applying a second voltage to the gate contact. The voltage is greater than the second voltage. The method further includes increasing the voltage to a threshold voltage and conducting current from the source contact to the gate contact in response to the voltage reaching the threshold voltage.