GB2546475B - Ultra-Lateral Power Transistor amd Driver structures - Google Patents
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| GB201621043D0 (en) * | 2016-12-12 | 2017-01-25 | Wood John | Ultra-lateral power transistor and driver structures |
| US11637016B2 (en) | 2013-12-11 | 2023-04-25 | Ideal Power Inc. | Systems and methods for bidirectional device fabrication |
| US11411557B2 (en) | 2020-05-18 | 2022-08-09 | Ideal Power Inc. | Method and system of operating a bi-directional double-base bipolar junction transistor (B-TRAN) |
| US11496129B2 (en) | 2020-06-08 | 2022-11-08 | Ideal Power Inc. | Method and system of current sharing among bidirectional double-base bipolar junction transistors |
| US11777018B2 (en) | 2020-11-19 | 2023-10-03 | Ideal Power Inc. | Layout to reduce current crowding at endpoints |
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| US6184555B1 (en) * | 1996-02-05 | 2001-02-06 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | Field effect-controlled semiconductor component |
| EP1128441A2 (en) * | 2000-02-21 | 2001-08-29 | Hitachi, Ltd. | Semiconductor devices comprising a SOI bipolar transistor and corresponding manufacturing methods |
| US20050093097A1 (en) * | 2003-10-30 | 2005-05-05 | Baiocchi Frank A. | Enhanced substrate contact for a semiconductor device |
| US20130147057A1 (en) * | 2011-12-13 | 2013-06-13 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Through silicon via (tsv) isolation structures for noise reduction in 3d integrated circuit |
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| US6184555B1 (en) * | 1996-02-05 | 2001-02-06 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | Field effect-controlled semiconductor component |
| EP1128441A2 (en) * | 2000-02-21 | 2001-08-29 | Hitachi, Ltd. | Semiconductor devices comprising a SOI bipolar transistor and corresponding manufacturing methods |
| US20050093097A1 (en) * | 2003-10-30 | 2005-05-05 | Baiocchi Frank A. | Enhanced substrate contact for a semiconductor device |
| US20130147057A1 (en) * | 2011-12-13 | 2013-06-13 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Through silicon via (tsv) isolation structures for noise reduction in 3d integrated circuit |
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