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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1995
Chanh M Nguyen, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Michael G Case, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
William W Hooper, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Authi A Narayanan, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A doping profile is disclosed for realizing a varactor diode that exhibits a high breakdown voltage V.sub.BR, e.g.,>100 volts, and a capacitance which has a bi-level characteristic. In particular, the capacitance has a C.sub.max level and a C.sub.min level. The doping profile includes two lightly doped regions and, between them, a third region with higher doping. The doping concentrations and widths of the first two regions substantially set the tuning ratio of C.sub.max /C.sub.min, and the doping concentration and width of the third region substantially sets the transition voltage V.sub.TR between the bi-level capacitances.