US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on May 19 for "Superjunction devices formed by field assisted diffusion of dopants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,191, issued on May 19, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Superjunction devices formed by field assisted diffusion of dopants" was invented by Vincenzo Lordi (Livermore, Calif.), Noah Patrick Allen (Oakland, Calif.), Qinghui Shao (Fremont, Calif.), Clint Duncan Frye (Livermore, Calif.), Kyoung Eun Kweon (Pleasanton, Calif.), Lars F. Voss (Livermore, Calif.) and Joel Basile Varley (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, in accordance with one embodiment, includes a superjunction device having a voltage sustaining layer formed of a semiconductor material and a dopant in...