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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:
Nov. 10, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tirumala R Ranganath, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 30 ; 357 16 ; 350 9614 ;
Abstract
A pair of rectifying electrodes (20) are formed on the surface (23) of a semiconductor waveguide device (10) around the waveguide region (18). Rectifying Schottky contacts (22) or p-n junctions (24) can be utilized. A bipolar voltage signal (30) is applied across the rectifying electrodes (20), reducing the voltage and power requirements and producing a bipolar electric field transversely across the waveguide (18). The electrode scheme (20) also provides low microwave loss.