US Patent Issued to NXP on Jan. 27 for "Semiconductor device having an extrinsic base region with a monocrystalline region and method therefor" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,507, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Semiconductor device having an extrinsic base region with a monocrystalline region and method therefor" was invented by Jay Paul John (Chandler, Ariz.), James Albert Kirchgessner (Tempe, Ariz.), Johannes Josephus Theodorus Marinus Donkers (Valkenswaard, Netherlands) and Ljubo Radic (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a collector region having a first width formed within the semiconductor substrate and an intrinsic base region having a second width, disposed over the collector region, wherei...