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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:
Apr. 28, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eric J Wildi, Clifton Park, NY (US);
James E Kohl, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 238 ; 357 53 ; 357 43 ; 357 22 ; 357 234 ; 351 231 ; 351 13 ;
Abstract
High voltage semiconductor devices include a drift layer region underlying a field gate electrode, the drift layer region having a selected charge density of lesser magnitude than the charge density of the remainder of the drift layer. This tailoring of the charge density of the drift layer region lowers the pinch-off voltage of a MOSFET inherent in the drift layer region. This lower pinch-off voltage decreases the potential of a device buried-layer when the device is in a reverse blocking mode of operation.