US Patent Issued to WOLFSPEED on Feb. 10 for "Method for reducing parasitic capacitance and increasing peak transconductance while maintaining on-state resistance and related devices" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,350, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to WOLFSPEED INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Method for reducing parasitic capacitance and increasing peak transconductance while maintaining on-state resistance and related devices" was invented by Chris Hardiman (Cary, N.C.), Matthew King (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Kyle Bothe (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transistor device includes a semiconductor structure comprising a channel layer and a barrier layer, source and drain contacts on the semiconductor structure, and a conductive element in a recess in the barrier layer between the source and drain contacts. The barrier layer has a first thickne...