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Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2012
Applicant:

Cree, Inc., Durham, NC (US);

Inventor:

Christer Hallin, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Assignee:

Cree, Inc., Durham, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/778 (2006.01); H01L 29/812 (2006.01); H01L 29/66 (2006.01); H01L 29/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/66462 (2013.01); H01L 29/7787 (2013.01); H01L 29/2003 (2013.01);
Abstract

A predisposed high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) is disclosed. The predisposed HEMT includes a buffer layer, a HEMT channel layer on the buffer layer, a first HEMT barrier layer over the HEMT channel layer, and a HEMT cap layer on the first HEMT barrier layer. The HEMT cap layer has a drain region, a source region, and a gate region. Further, the HEMT cap layer has a continuous surface on the drain region, the source region, and the gate region. When no external voltage is applied between the source region and the gate region, the gate region either depletes carriers from the HEMT channel layer or provides carriers to the HEMT channel layer, thereby selecting a predisposed state of the predisposed HEMT.


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