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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Chanh Nguyen, Calabasas, CA (US);
Assignee:
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 3/10328 ; H01L 3/1109 ; H01L 2/906 ; H01L 2/993 ; H01L 3/1072 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 3/10328 ; H01L 3/1109 ; H01L 2/906 ; H01L 2/993 ; H01L 3/1072 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a varactor diode for frequency multipliers at submillimeter wave frequencies and above. Functionally the new diode replaces the conventional heterostructure barrier varactor diode. Two important features of the antimony-based quantum well heterostructure barrier varactor are; first: an aluminum antimnide/aluminum-arsenic-antimnide heterostructure barrier and second: a bandgap-engineered, triangular quantum well cathode and anode.