Patent ID: 8587032

Claim:
Semiconductor component in the form of an HEMT, with a first semiconductor layer and a second deposited over the latter, and a two-dimensional electron gas that forms in the first semiconductor layer, at the layer boundary to the second semiconductor layer, in a conduction channel, as well as with a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed laterally at a distance from one another, connected with the conduction channel in electrically conductive manner, and a gate electrode disposed between these, wherein the sheet resistance of the conduction channel is inhomogeneous in the current direction between source electrode and drain electrode, in such a manner that in a partial section of the conduction channel that lies between gate electrode and drain electrode, the sheet resistance of the conduction channel is elevated as compared with adjacent regions of the conduction channel that lie on both sides of the partial section, wherein the partial section is shorter than the expanse of the conduction channel between gate electrode and drain electrode.