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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Infineon Technologies Austria Ag, Villach, AT;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Villach, AT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/003 (2006.01); H03K 17/687 (2006.01); H01L 27/088 (2006.01); H01L 29/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/687 (2013.01); H01L 27/088 (2013.01); H01L 29/402 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for operating a circuit includes providing a three terminal main transistor and a four terminal sense transistor having a field plate. The method includes simultaneously applying a gate pulse on a gate terminal of the sense transistor and a gate terminal of the main transistor, and applying a field plate pulse on a field plate of the sense transistor. The field plate pulse is synchronous and in phase with the gate pulse.