US Patent Issued to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings on Oct. 14 for "Transistors including semiconductor surface modification and related fabrication methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,252, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (Lowell, Mass.).

"Transistors including semiconductor surface modification and related fabrication methods" was invented by Joshua Bisges (Wake Forest, N.C.), Kyle Bothe (Cary, N.C.) and Matthew King (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transistor device includes a semiconductor structure, source and drain contacts on the semiconductor structure, a gate on the semiconductor structure between the source and drain contacts, and a surface passivation layer on the semiconductor structure between the gate and the source or drain contact. The su...