ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,914, issued on June 10, was assigned to II-VI ADVANCED MATERIALS LLC (Pine Brook, N.J.).
"Buried grid with shield in wide band gap material" was invented by Hossein Elahipanah (Sollentuna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a structure in a wide band gap material such as silicon carbide wherein there is a buried grid and shields covering at least one middle point between two adjacent parts of the buried grid, when viewed from above. Advantages of the invention include easy manufacture without extra lithographic steps compared with standard manufacturing process, an improved trade-off between the current conducti...