US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on May 13 for "Silicon carbide components and methods for producing silicon carbide components" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,619, issued on May 13, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Silicon carbide components and methods for producing silicon carbide components" was invented by Roland Rupp (Lauf, Germany) and Ronny Kern (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a silicon carbide component includes forming a silicon carbide layer on an initial wafer, wherein the silicon carbide layer comprises a doping region to be produced, forming an electrically conductive contact structure on the surface of the silicon carbide layer, the electrically conductive contact structure, producing a splitting region by...