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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1992

Filed:

Apr. 05, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:

Thomas R Fullowan, North Plainfield, NJ (US);

Stephen J Pearton, Summit, NJ (US);

Fan Ren, Warren, NJ (US);

Assignee:

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
437 31 ; 437184 ; 156656 ;
Abstract

Disclosed is a method of making semiconductor devices that comprises etching of a semiconductor layer, with a patterned metal layer acting as the etch mask. The patterned metal layer comprises a mask metal layer (exemplarily Ti) overlying a contact metal layer (exemplarily a Au-containing layer). In an exemplary embodiment the inventive method is used to manufacture InP-based heterojunction bipolar transistors.


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