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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1992
Filed:
May. 14, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
David A Johnson, Camarillo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, Camarillo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 63 ; 357 67 ;
Abstract
A dependable ohmic contact with consistently low specific contact resistance (<1.times.10.sup.-6 .OMEGA.-cm.sup.2) to n-type GaAs (10) is produced by a three or four step procedure. The procedure, which is employed following implantation to form doped regions in the GaAs substrate for contacting thereto, comprises: