Patent 7851825 was granted and assigned to Transphorm Inc. on December, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Enhancement-mode III-nitride transistors are described that have a large source to drain barrier in the off state, low off state leakage, and low channel resistance in the access regions are described. The devices can include a charge depleting layer under the gate and/or a charge enhancing layer outside of the gate region, that is, in the access region.