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Title: Biasing, operation and parasitic current limitation in single device equivalent to CMOS, and other semiconductor systems

Abstract

Disclosed are semiconductor devices including at least one junction which is rectifying whether the semiconductor is caused to be N or P-type, by the presence of applied gate voltage field induced carriers in essentially intrinsic, essentially homogeneously simultaneously containing both N and P-type metallurgical dopants at substantially equal doping levels, essentially homogeneously simultaneously containing both N and P-type metallurgical dopants at different doping levels, and containing a single metallurgical doping type, and functional combinations thereof. In particular, inverting and non-inverting gate voltage channel induced semiconductor single devices with operating characteristics similar to conventional multiple device CMOS systems, which can be operated as modulators, are disclosed as are a non-latching SCR and an approach to blocking parasitic currents utilizing material(s) which form rectifying junctions with both N and P-type semiconductor whether metallurigically or field induced.

Inventors:
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
~Individually Owned Patent
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1174501
Patent Number(s):
6624493
Application Number:
09/716,046
Assignee:
Welch, James D.
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
DOE Contract Number:  
FG47-93R701314
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
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Citation Formats

Welch, James D. Biasing, operation and parasitic current limitation in single device equivalent to CMOS, and other semiconductor systems. United States: N. p., 2003. Web.
Welch, James D. Biasing, operation and parasitic current limitation in single device equivalent to CMOS, and other semiconductor systems. United States.
Welch, James D. Tue . "Biasing, operation and parasitic current limitation in single device equivalent to CMOS, and other semiconductor systems". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1174501.
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