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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Fwu-Iuan Hshieh, Saratoga, CA (US);
Mike F Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jan Van der Linde, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yueh-Se Ho, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Siliconix Incorporated, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A power field effect transistor has a laterally extending channel region which is not formed by double diffusion. The channel region may be formed in epitaxial silicon which is not doped after being grown. The drain electrode of the transistor is disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate upon which the transistor structure is formed. When the transistor is turned on, the channel region inverts thereby forming a conductive path from a source region, laterally through the inverted channel region, substantially vertically through a sinker region to the underlying substrate, through the substrate, and to the drain electrode.