Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power semiconductor device with an auxiliary gate structure
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Application No.: US17350490Application Date: 2021-06-17
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Publication No.: US11955478B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Martin Arnold , Loizos Efthymiou , Florin Udrea , Giorgia Longobardi , John William Findlay
- Applicant: Cambridge Enterprise Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: CAMBRIDGE GAN DEVICES LIMITED
- Current Assignee: CAMBRIDGE GAN DEVICES LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Tucker Ellis LLP
- Main IPC: H01L27/07
- IPC: H01L27/07 ; H01L27/06 ; H01L29/20 ; H01L29/423 ; H01L29/778 ; H03K17/0412 ; H03K17/0812 ; H03K17/30

Abstract:
Power semiconductor devices in GaN technology include an integrated auxiliary (double) gate terminal and a pulldown network to achieve a normally-off (E-Mode) GaN transistor with threshold voltage higher than 2V, low gate leakage current and enhanced switching performance. The high threshold voltage GaN transistor has a high-voltage active GaN device and a low-voltage auxiliary GaN device wherein the high-voltage GaN device has the gate connected to the source of the integrated auxiliary low-voltage GaN transistor and the drain being the external high-voltage drain terminal and the source being the external source terminal, while the low-voltage auxiliary GaN transistor has the gate (first auxiliary electrode) connected to the drain (second auxiliary electrode) functioning as an external gate terminal. A pull-down network for the switching-off of the high threshold voltage GaN transistor may be formed by additional auxiliary low-voltage GaN transistors and resistive elements connected with the low-voltage auxiliary GaN transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210335781A1 POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH AN AUXILIARY GATE STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2021-10-28
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