Abstract:
A package for containing a microwave transistor chip is constructed so that a surface on which the transistor chip is to be mounted is recessed below a metallized surface which serves as an electrical ground. By means of this construction, a mounted transistor chip will be positioned with its top surface just below the plane of the electrical ground surface. Thus, the leads which connect the transistor to the electrical ground surface may be very short, thereby reducing the occurrance of package parasitics, and in particular minimizing the spurious common emitter inductance. According to one embodiment of the invention, a cap is used which is in electrical contact with the electrical ground surface of the package, the cap having a recessed inner portion to assure that no contact is made between the cap and any leads which are bonded to the transistor chip and the package.
Abstract:
An interconnection system circuit integrated on the same substrate comprises: ohmic contacts made by a layer of zirconium or tantalum which ensures resistive contact and overlaid with a layer of aluminum. The interconnections are effected by two superimposed layers of zirconium or tantalum and of aluminium and the resistors are made by the exposed zirconium or tantalum.
Abstract:
A semi-conductor is housed within a metallic can closed at its top and having a base flange and one or more heat sink fins. Each heat sink fin includes a flexible metallic heat conductive body 0.005 inch thick of disc-shape, centrally apertured and snugly and frictionally mounted over said can. Each fin includes a central annular flange. The fins and flanges in registry for uniform spacing.
Abstract:
A light-sensible semiconductor device comprises a hermetic sealing case provided with a thin planar glass plate as the top surface member. A light-sensible semiconductor chip is fixed in position within the hermetic sealing case in proximity to the planar glass plate, and a light converging lens is attached onto the planar glass plate. A holder member for the light converging lens is closely attached to the hermetic sealing case in proximity to the planar glass plate, and a light converging lens is attached onto the planar glass plate. A holding member for the light converging lens is closely attached to the hermetic sealing case and holds the lowermost peripheral portion of the light converging lens, and a member presses the holder member of the light converging lens against the hermetic sealing case to secure the close attachment of the holder member for the light converging lens onto the planar glass plate.
Abstract:
A two terminal positive feedback magnetic sensitive semiconductor device having P-type regions and N-type regions in which a channel is formed between PN junctions. The width of the channel is controlled by Lorenz''s force in response to the strength of the magnetic field and as a result an input current passing through the channel is controlled.
Abstract:
A package and mounting suitable for microwave transistors wherein lead inductances are substantially reduced and heat dissipation is improved. A semiconductor substrate having p-n junctions at one of its surfaces has its opposite surface secured to a thermally conductive electrically insulating member on a thermally conductive electrically conductive substrate which acts as the common input to the device. The member is embedded in and partially surrounded by the electrically conductive substrate in a manner that increases the interface surface area of contact between the heat dissipating member and the thermally conductive substrate and shortens the lengths of wire necessary to make connections to the substrate. Parallel connecting paths to each side of the p-n junctions extend in opposite directions over the sides of the semiconductor substrate and are interleaved on each side of the semiconductor substrate to substantially reduce lead inductances by means of the bucking effects of the generated magnetic fields. The electrically conducting substrate has a portion which is positioned intermediate to the input and output leads to the device in a substantially common plane and effectively provides shielding for further reducing lead inductances.
Abstract:
The memory element makes use of two transferred electron devices, at least one of which is notched. The transferred electron devices are connected in a feedback arrangement in order to trigger one another. The memory element can be used for processing extremely high speed signals.
Abstract:
A packaged semiconductor device comprises a housing having a ceramic base member in the form of a rectangle. The base member includes a ceramic sheet having rectangular regions orthogonally contiguous to one another corresponding to the base member rectangle. A plurality of first conductors and a substantially equal number of second conductors are metallized on the ceramic sheet. Each first conductor has an area at the substantial center of each rectangular region and an arm extending from that area parallel to one of the common diagonals of the region into a contiguous region and substantially bisecting the common boundary of the two contiguous regions. Each second conductor extends parallel to a diagonal traversing the one diagonal by a substantially equal amount into two contiguous regions disposed orthogonal to the first-mentioned two contiguous regions and substantially bisecting the common boundary of the last-mentioned two contiguous regions.
Abstract:
An improved cooling apparatus for flat semiconductors in which the semiconductor is held between two base members each having one or more heat pipes inserted in holes formed therein. Heat is conducted by the vaporized working fluid in the heat pipe from the end inserted into the base member to other end which contains cooling fins which condense the vapor, which in liquid form then returns by capillary action through a wick. Also shown is an embodiment which permits locating the cooling fins remote from the semiconductor to take advantage of more favorable cooling conditions.
Abstract:
A semiconductor high voltage rectifier including a plurality of strips of insulating material, each strip containing a plurality of openings. One of the strips contains a semiconductor wafer within each of its plurality of openings while, two of the strips contain a conducting body within each of their openings. The strips are assembled as a unit by two end caps so that the wafers are bounded on each side by a strip containing the conducting bodies. The assembly is such that the conducting bodies each engage a conducting surface of a wafer. A series circuit is established by connecting each successive pair of conducting bodies by conducting strips and the two conducting caps with the conducting bodies closest thereto by conducting strips, with the caps constituting the external terminals of the rectifier.