Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Field-effect transistor device with partial finger current sensing FETs
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Application No.: US14867432Application Date: 2015-09-28
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Publication No.: US09973183B2Publication Date: 2018-05-15
- Inventor: Lin Zhu , Kamal Raj Varadarajan , Yury Gaknoki
- Applicant: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: The Law Offices of Bradley J. Bereznak
- Main IPC: H02H9/02
- IPC: H02H9/02 ; H03K5/24 ; H01L27/088 ; H02H3/20 ; G01R19/00 ; G01R19/165

Abstract:
A lateral semiconductor field-effect transistor (FET) device fabricated on a substrate includes a high-voltage main FET having interdigitated, elongated source and drain electrode fingers each of which is electrically connected to a respective interdigitated, elongated source and drain region disposed in the substrate. The FET device further includes first and second sense FETs each having a drain region in common with the high-voltage main FET. The sense FETS also include respective first and second elongated source electrode fingers each of which is electrically connected to respective first and second elongated source regions of the first and second sense FETs, respectively. The first and second elongated source electrode fingers are disposed length-wise adjacent to one of the elongated drain electrode fingers. The first elongated source finger has a first length, and the second elongated source finger has a second length, the second length being less than the first length.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170093387A1 Field-Effect Transistor Device with Partial Finger Current Sensing FETs Public/Granted day:2017-03-30
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