Patent ID: 9236378
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: H01L

Claim Text:
1. A device comprising: a compound semiconductor layer; a plurality of ohmic metal lingers fabricated on the compound semiconductor layer, the ohmic metal fingers including a plurality of input fingers, a plurality of switch fingers and a plurality of ground fingers, the ohmic metal fingers disposed in a repeating pattern including a sequence of: a plurality of control gates, at least one of the control gates disposed between each input finger and adjacent switch finger; a plurality of sync gates, at least one of the sync gates disposed between each ground finger and adjacent switch finger, at least one of the sync gates and at least one of the control gates adjacent each switch finger; a plurality of control gate pads, each control gate pad disposed at an end of two control gates, and at least one of the control gate pads at opposite ends of each control gate; a plurality of sync gate pads, each sync gate pad disposed at an end of two sync gates, and at least one sync gate pad at opposite ends of each sync gate; and a first metallic layer of parallel metal electrodes including: