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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2002
Pankaj B. Shah, Silver Spring, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A structure and method for a voltage blocking device comprises a cathode region, a drift region positioned on the cathode region, a gate region positioned on the drift region, an anode region positioned on the gate region and a plurality of contacts positioned on each of the cathode region, the gate region, and the anode region, wherein the drift region comprises multiple epilayers having first doped type layers surrounding second doped type layers, wherein dopant concentrations of the first doped type layers are lower than dopant concentrations of the second doped type layers. The epilayers comprise at least one i-n-i layer and/or at least one i-p-i layer. Moreover, the multiple epilayers are operable to block voltages in the device.