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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1982
Herman P Schutten, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Robert W Lade, Fort Myers, FL (US);
James A Benjamin, Waukesha, WI (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
Lateral FET structure is disclosed for bidirectional power switching, including AC application. Integral avalanche protection is provided by a pair of isolation regions forming protective barrier junctions with a common layer, which junctions are in parallel with the reverse blocking junctions of the power FET in the OFF state and have a lower reverse breakover threshold for protecting the latter. A plurality of integrated FETs each have left and right source regions and left and right channel regions with a common drift region therebetween, and conduct current in either direction according to the polarity of main terminals.