US PATENT SUBCLASS 257 / 544
.~ With pn junction isolation


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257 /   HD   ACTIVE SOLID-STATE DEVICES (E.G., TRANSISTORS, SOLID-STATE DIODES)

499  DF  INTEGRATED CIRCUIT STRUCTURE WITH ELECTRICALLY ISOLATED COMPONENTS {9}
544.~ With pn junction isolation {8}
545  DF  .~.~> With means to control isolation junction capacitance (e.g., lightly doped layer at isolation junction to increase depletion layer width)
546  DF  .~.~> With structural means to protect against excess or reversed polarity voltage
547  DF  .~.~> With structural means to control parasitic transistor action or leakage current
548  DF  .~.~> At least three regions of alternating conductivity types with dopant concentration gradients decreasing from surface of semiconductor (e.g., "triple-diffused" integrated circuit)
549  DF  .~.~> With substrate and lightly doped surface layer of same conductivity type, separated by subsurface heavily doped region of opposite conductivity type (e.g., "collector diffused isolation" integrated circuit)
550  DF  .~.~> With lightly doped surface layer of one conductivity type on substrate of opposite conductivity type, having plural heavily doped portions of the one conductivity type between the layer and substrate, different ones of the heavily doped portions having differing depths or physical extent
551  DF  .~.~> Including voltage reference element (e.g., avalanche diode, so-called "Zener diode" with breakdown voltage greater than 6 volts or with positive temperature coefficient of breakdown voltage)
552  DF  .~.~> With bipolar transistor structure {3}


DEFINITION

Classification: 257/544

With pn junction isolation:

(under subclass 499) Subject matter wherein the means for electrically isolating different devices from each other includes a pn junction located between the devices to be isolated.