US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on March 24 for "Systems and methods for pillar extension in termination areas of wide band gap super-junction power devices" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,254, issued on March 24, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for pillar extension in termination areas of wide band gap super-junction power devices" was invented by Collin William Hitchcock (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Reza Ghandi (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A super-junction (SJ) device includes a first epitaxial (epi layer) that forms a first SJ layer of the SJ device and includes a second epi layer disposed on the first SJ layer that forms a device layer of the SJ device. An active area and a termination area of the first epi layer includes a first set of SJ pi...