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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2012
James L. Vorhaus, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Anthony G. P. Marini, Clinton, MA (US);
James L. Vorhaus, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Anthony G. P. Marini, Clinton, MA (US);
Sarda Technologies, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
Various aspects of the technology provide for clamping a transient from a transient generator in a circuit using a Field Effect Transistor (FET) including a compound semiconductor layer forming a drain coupled to the transient voltage generator, a source, and a gate. The gate and the drain may be configured to clamp voltage transients in the circuit from the transient voltage generator independent of a clamping diode between the source and the drain. The FET may be a depletion mode type fabricated using germanium or a compound semiconductor such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) or gallium nitride (GaN).