US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 25 for "Field plates for integrated circuits" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,833, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Field plates for integrated circuits" was invented by Fuchao Wang (Plano, Texas), Billy Alan Wofford (Sunnyvale, Texas), Ebenezer Eshun (Frisco, Texas), Jungwoo Joh (Allen, Texas) and Dong Seup Lee (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an integrated circuit comprises a transistor and a metal layer. The transistor has an insulator layer over a substrate that includes gallium nitride (GaN). First and second opening in the insulator layer respectively define a drain region and a source region of the transistor. A gate electrode extends in...