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Thermally balanced PN junction

US3988759A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 26, 1974
Grant dateOct 26, 1976
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Expiry dateAug 26, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L22/14
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Regions of high resistivity, with respect to the surrounding material, are designed into a semiconductor device at points where hot-spots have been observed. A device made in this manner has very good second breakdown characteristics. One application is in large area junction transistors having an interdigitated base-emitter configuration.

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