EP3619738A4 - High power mmic devices having bypassed gate transistors - Google Patents

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EP3619738A4
EP3619738A4 EP18795054.8A EP18795054A EP3619738A4 EP 3619738 A4 EP3619738 A4 EP 3619738A4 EP 18795054 A EP18795054 A EP 18795054A EP 3619738 A4 EP3619738 A4 EP 3619738A4
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gate transistors
mmic devices
power mmic
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Simon M. Wood
James Milligan
Mitchell Flowers
Donald Farrell
Khaled Fayed
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Wolfspeed Inc
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Cree Inc
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    • H01L23/4824—Pads with extended contours, e.g. grid structure, branch structure, finger structure
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    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
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    • H01L29/42312—Gate electrodes for field effect devices
    • H01L29/42316—Gate electrodes for field effect devices for field-effect transistors
    • H01L29/4232—Gate electrodes for field effect devices for field-effect transistors with insulated gate
    • H01L29/42372—Gate electrodes for field effect devices for field-effect transistors with insulated gate characterised by the conducting layer, e.g. the length, the sectional shape or the lay-out
    • H01L29/4238—Gate electrodes for field effect devices for field-effect transistors with insulated gate characterised by the conducting layer, e.g. the length, the sectional shape or the lay-out characterised by the surface lay-out
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    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/66—Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
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    • H01L29/76—Unipolar devices, e.g. field effect transistors
    • H01L29/772—Field effect transistors
    • H01L29/778—Field effect transistors with two-dimensional charge carrier gas channel, e.g. HEMT ; with two-dimensional charge-carrier layer formed at a heterojunction interface
    • H01L29/7786—Field effect transistors with two-dimensional charge carrier gas channel, e.g. HEMT ; with two-dimensional charge-carrier layer formed at a heterojunction interface with direct single heterostructure, i.e. with wide bandgap layer formed on top of active layer, e.g. direct single heterostructure MIS-like HEMT
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    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
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    • H01L29/402—Field plates

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  • Metal-Oxide And Bipolar Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Integrated Circuits (AREA)
  • Design And Manufacture Of Integrated Circuits (AREA)
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  • Insulated Gate Type Field-Effect Transistor (AREA)
EP18795054.8A 2017-05-05 2018-05-03 High power mmic devices having bypassed gate transistors Pending EP3619738A4 (en)

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US15/587,830 US10128365B2 (en) 2016-03-17 2017-05-05 Bypassed gate transistors having improved stability
US15/608,048 US9947616B2 (en) 2016-03-17 2017-05-30 High power MMIC devices having bypassed gate transistors
PCT/US2018/030863 WO2018204622A1 (en) 2017-05-05 2018-05-03 High power mmic devices having bypassed gate transistors

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