Abstract:
MEMS resonator comprising: a substrate; a resonator body (1) suspended above the substrate by means of clamped-clamped beams (4), each beam comprising two support legs (41, 42) with a common connection (5) to the resonator body, the resonator body (1) being adapted for resonating at an operating frequency (fres); excitation means (6, 7) for exciting the resonator body into a vibration at the operating frequency (fres). Each beam is adapted for oscillating in a flexural mode at a given flexural wavelength as a result of said vibration of said resonator body at said operating frequency (fres). Each leg is acoustically long with respect to said flexural wavelength of the beam.
Abstract:
A vertical power device having a top side and a bottom side, the vertical power device comprising a substrate; a layered group III-Nitride based device stack formed atop the substrate, the group III-Nitride based device stack; a first vertical group III-Nitride based device and a second vertical group III-Nitride based device formed in the group III-Nitride based device stack, wherein the first vertical group III-Nitride based device and the second vertical group III-Nitride based device are electrically connected; and a first vertical device isolation structure that isolates the first vertical group III-Nitride based device from the second vertical group III-Nitride based device. A vertical power system integrating vertical power devices. A process for fabricating a vertical power device.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing an III-nitride semiconductor structure comprising providing a substrate (150) comprising a first layer (333) having an upper surface (51, 65) of monocrystalline III-nitride material,; providing, over the upper surface, a patterned dielectric layer comprising a first dielectric feature (10); loading the substrate into a process chamber; exposing the substrate (150) to a first gas mixture comprising at least one Group III-metal organic precursor gas, a nitrogen containing gas and hydrogen gas at a predetermined temperature, thereby forming, on the upper surface, a second layer (52, 61) of a monocrystalline III-nitride material by area selective growth wherein two opposing sidewalls of the dielectric feature are oriented parallel to one of the {11-20} crystal planes of the first layer such that upon formation of the second layer of the monocrystalline III-nitride material a first trench (81) having tapered sidewalls (82)is formed so that the crystal plane of the second layer parallel to the tapered sidewalls is one of the {1-101} crystal planes.
Abstract:
The invention is related to a III-Nitride semiconductor device comprising a base substrate (1), a buffer layer (2), a channel layer (3), a barrier layer (4) so that a 2-dimensional charge carrier gas (5) is formed or can be formed near the interface between the channel layer (3) and the barrier layer (4), and at least one set of a first and second electrode (6,7) in electrical contact with the 2-dimensional charge carrier gas (5), wherein the device further comprises a mobile charge layer (MCL) (11) within the buffer layer (2) or near the interface between the buffer layer (2) and the channel layer, when the device is in the on-state. The device further comprises (3) an electrically conductive path (12) between one of the electrodes (6,7) and the mobile charge layer (11). The invention is equally related to a method for producing a device according to the invention.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device comprising a MEM resonating element (20), provided for resonating at a predetermined resonance frequency and having at least one temperature dependent characteristic, a heating means (40), comprising a tunable thermal radiation source (40) for heating the MEM resonating element to an offset temperature (T offset ), a sensing means (11, 12), associated with the MEM resonating element and provided for sensing its temperature dependent characteristic, and a control circuit (30), connected to the sensing means (11, 12) for receiving measurement signals indicative of the sensed temperature dependent characteristic and connected to the heating means (40) for supplying a control signal (31) thereto, to maintain the temperature of the MEM resonating element (20) at the offset temperature.