Patent 7696584 was granted and assigned to Wolfspeed on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a contact and an adjacent film on the surface of an underlying doped semiconductor material. The film has sufficient fixed charge to create an inversion layer adjacent the surface of the doped semiconductor material that under depletion conditions at least balances the number of surface states at the doping concentration of the underlying semiconductor material.