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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
438275 ; 438289 ; 257401 ;
Abstract
A field effect transistor (30) has an array of transistors (31) made up of bonding pads (45-47) and sub-arrays of transistors (41-43). The bonding pads (45-47) are distributed between the sub-arrays of transistors (41-43) to reduce the maximum temperature that any portion of the FET (30) is exposed to while the FET (30) is in a conducting state. A similar effect can be appreciated by adjusting the threshold voltage or pinch-off resistance of the transistors in a portion (101) of an array of transistors (95).