US Patent Issued to NXP on May 26 for "Transistors with source-connected field plates" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,851, issued on May 26, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Transistors with source-connected field plates" was invented by Congyong Zhu (Gilbert, Ariz.), Bernhard Grote (Phoenix) and Bruce McRae Green (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Placement of a field plate in a field-effect transistor is optimized by using multiple dielectric layers such that a first end of field plate is separated from a channel region of the transistor by a first set of one or more distinct dielectric material layers. A second end of the field plate overlies the channel region and a control electrode from which it is separated by th...