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Semiconductor device

US8786002B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 2, 2011
Grant dateJul 22, 2014
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Expiry dateApr 27, 2032

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B1/48
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In terms of achieving a reduction in the cost of an antenna switch, there is provided a technology capable of minimizing harmonic distortion generated in the antenna switch even when the antenna switch is particularly formed of field effect transistors formed over a silicon substrate. Between the source region and the drain region of each of a plurality of MISFETs coupled in series, a distortion compensating capacitance circuit is coupled which has a voltage dependency such that, in either of the cases where a positive voltage is applied to the drain region based on the potential of the source region and where a negative voltage is applied to the drain region based on the potential of the source region, the capacitance decreases to a value smaller than that in a state where the potential of the source region and the potential of the drain region are at the same level.

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