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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2001
Stephen G. Beebe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srinath Krishnan, Campbell, CA (US);
Zoran Krivokapic, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device for a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) integrated circuit having a silicon substrate with a buried oxide layer disposed thereon and an active layer disposed on the buried oxide layer having active regions defined by isolation trenches. The ESD protection device formed on the SOI integrated circuit and has an anode and a cathode formed within one of the active regions and coupled respectively to a first and a second node; and a filled backside contact opening disposed under and in thermal contact with at least one of the anode or the cathode, the backside contact opening traversing the buried oxide layer to thermally couple the one of the active regions and the substrate.