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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:
May. 04, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas R Apel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Teledyne Monolithic Microwave, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01G / ; H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
257532 ; 257276 ; 257277 ; 437203 ;
Abstract
A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor for monolithic microwave integrated circuit applications of the capacitoraround-via type having a bottom plate 36, a dielectric 40, and a top plate 44 which substantially surround, but do not physically overlay, via hole 32 and provide a low-inductance connection between a frontside MIM capacitor and a backside ground plane.