Output matched LDMOS power transistor device

• US 6,177,834 B1
• Filed: 12/02/1998
• Issued: 01/23/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ericsson, Inc. (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Curtis, James, Blair, Cynthia, Ballard, Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Cunningham, Terry D.
• Application Number:
  US09/204,666
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• Field of Search: 327/564, 327/565, 327/566, 257/341, 257/401
• US Class Current: 327/566
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2223/6644 Packaging aspects of high-frequency amplifiers amplifiers per se H03F
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/05599 Material
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/45099 Material
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48 of an individual wire connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/49175 Parallel arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/642 Capacitive arrangements H01L23/49589, H01L23/645, H01L23/647, H01L23/66 take precedence; capacitive effects between wiring layers on the semiconductor body H01L23/5222
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/66 High-frequency adaptations
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/48 of an individual wire connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/49 of a plurality of wire connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00014 the subject-matter covered by the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group, being disclosed without further technical details
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01005 Boron [B]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01006 Carbon [C]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01013 Aluminum [Al]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01014 Silicon [Si]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01079 Gold [Au]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01322 Eutectic Alloys, i.e. obtained by a liquid transforming into two solid phases
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/10253 Silicon [Si]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/15787 Ceramics, e.g. crystalline carbides, nitrides or oxides
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/19041 being a capacitor
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/19043 : being a resistor
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/30105 : Capacitance
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/30107 : Inductance
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/3011 : Impedance
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/30111 : matching
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/565 : using inductive elements

Abstract

An output-matched LDMOS RF power transistor device includes a semiconductor die having a plurality of interdigitated electrodes formed thereon, the electrodes each having respective input terminals and output terminals. An input lead is coupled to a first terminal of an input matching capacitor by a first plurality of conductors (e.g., bond wires), with a second terminal of the matching capacitor coupled to a ground. The first terminal of the matching capacitor is also coupled to the electrode input terminals by a second plurality of conductors. A conductive island isolated from the ground is coupled to the electrode output terminals by a third plurality of conductors. Output matching of the device is provided by a shunt inductance formed by a fourth plurality of conductors, which couple a first terminal of an output blocking capacitor the conductive island, with a second terminal of the blocking capacitor coupled to the ground. An output lead is coupled to the conductive island by a fifth plurality of conductors. In particular, the conductive island is disposed adjacent the semiconductor die, and the output blocking capacitor is disposed between the conductive island and output lead, such that transmission inductance through the respective third and fourth pluralities of conductors coupling the electrode output terminals to the blocking capacitor is sufficiently small to allow for output impedance matching of the transistor device at relatively high operating frequencies.

Claims

1. An RF power transistor device, comprising:

a semiconductor having a plurality of electrodes formed thereon, the electrodes having respective output terminals;

each electrode comprising a plurality of interdigitated transistors;

a conductive island coupled to the electrode output terminals by a first plurality of conductors;

an input matching capacitor having a first terminal coupled to an input lead frame by a second plurality of conductors carrying an input inductance and a second terminal coupled to a ground;

said first terminal coupled to said semiconductor by a third plurality of conductors;

an output blocking capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the conductive island by a fourth plurality of conductors and a second terminal coupled to the ground; and

an output lead coupled to the conductive island by a fifth plurality of conductors carrying an output inductance.

2. The transistor device of claim 1, wherein the respective pluralities of conductors each comprise wires.

3. The transistor device of claim 1, wherein the conductive island is disposed adjacent the semiconductor, and the blocking capacitor is disposed between the conductive island and the output lead, such that transmission inductance through the respective first and fourth pluralities of conductors coupling the electrode output terminals to the blocking capacitor is small to allow for output impedance matching of the device at high operating frequencies.

4. An RF power transistor device, comprising:

a first lead;

a semiconductor having a plurality of electrodes formed thereon, the electrodes each having respective input terminals and output terminals;

each electrode comprising a plurality of interdigitated transistors;

a first capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the first lead by a first plurality of conductors carrying an input inductance and coupled to the electrode input terminals by a second plurality of conductors;

a conductive island isolated from a ground and coupled to the electrode output terminals by a third plurality of conductors;

a second capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the conductive island by a fourth plurality of conductors, and a second terminal coupled to the ground; and

a second lead coupled to the conductive island by a fifth plurality of conductors carrying an output inductance.

5. The transistor device of claim 4, wherein the respective pluralities of conductors each comprise wires.

6. The transistor device of claim 4, wherein the conductive island is disposed adjacent the semiconductor, and the second capacitor is disposed between the conductive island and the second lead, such that transmission inductance through the respective third and fourth pluralities of conductors coupling the electrode output terminals to the second capacitor is small to allow for output impedance matching of the device at high operating frequencies.

7. An LDMOS RF power transistor device, comprising:

an input lead frame;

a semiconductor having a plurality of electrodes formed thereon, the electrodes each having respective input terminals and output terminals, each electrode comprising a plurality of interdigitated transistors;

an input matching capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the input lead by a first plurality of wires carrying an input inductance and coupled to the electrode input terminals by a second plurality of wires, the input matching capacitor having a second terminal coupled to a ground;

a conductive island isolated from the ground and coupled to the electrode output terminals by a third plurality of wires;

an output blocking capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the conductive island by a fourth plurality of conductors and a second terminal coupled to the ground; and

an output lead frame coupled to the conductive island by a fifth plurality of wires carrying an output inductance,

wherein the conductive island is disposed adjacent the semiconductor, and the output blocking capacitor is disposed between the conductive island and the output lead frame, such that transmission inductance through the respective third and fourth pluralities of wires coupling the electrode output terminals to the first terminal of the output blocking capacitor is small to allow for output impedance matching of the device at high operating frequencies.