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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1976
Filed:
May. 28, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:
Surinder Krishna, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 64 ; 357 60 ; 357 37 ; 357 46 ; 357 88 ; 357 89 ; 357 90 ;
Abstract
The minority carrier lifetime is drastically reduced in an integrated semiconductor power device by introducing deep level impurities such, for example, as gold, silver, platinum, nickel and copper into selected regions of the device by Thermal Gradient Zone Melting processing.