US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Feb. 18 for "Modification of electric fields of compound semiconductor devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,699, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.).

"Modification of electric fields of compound semiconductor devices" was invented by Daniel Piedra (Cambridge, Mass.), James G. Fiorenza (Carlisle, Mass.) and Puneet Srivastava (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuits can include semiconductor devices with back-side field plates. The semiconductor devices can be formed on substrates that have conductive layers located within the substrates. The conductive layers can include at least one of a conducting material or a semi-conducting material that modifies an electric field produce...