US 12,406,927 B2
RF switch device including multi-width air gaps
Ki Won Lim, Suwon-si (KR); Jin Hyo Jung, Suwon-si (KR); Hae Taek Kim, Bucheon (KR); Seung Hyun Eom, Seoul (KR); Ja Geon Koo, Eumseong-gun (KR); Hyun Joong Lee, Daejeon (KR); and Sang Yong Lee, Chungju-si (KR)
Assigned to DB HiTek Co., Ltd., Bucheon-si (KR)
Filed by DB HiTek Co., Ltd., Bucheon-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/730,495.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0061299 (KR), filed on May 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0367354 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H10D 64/27 (2025.01); H01L 21/768 (2006.01); H01L 23/528 (2006.01); H01L 23/532 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 23/5283 (2013.01) [H01L 21/7682 (2013.01); H10D 64/519 (2025.01); H01L 21/76885 (2013.01); H01L 23/5329 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An RF switch device, comprising:
a semiconductor layer;
gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in a single stage and on the semiconductor layer;
sources in the semiconductor layer;
drains in the semiconductor layer;
a lower source contact connected to one of the sources;
a first lower metal structure connected to the lower source contact;
an upper source contact connected to the first lower metal structure;
a first upper metal structure connected to the upper source contact;
a lower drain contact connected to one of the drains;
a second lower metal structure connected to the lower drain contact;
an upper drain contact connected to the second lower metal structure;
a second upper metal structure connected to the upper drain contact; and
air gaps configured such that, in the single stage and on or over each gate electrode, at least one of the air gaps has a different width than other ones of the air gaps,
wherein the first upper metal structure includes:
a source tab extending along a first direction; and
a plurality of source extensions extending in a second direction from the source tab,
the second upper metal structure includes:
a drain tab extending in the first direction and spaced apart from the source tab in the second direction; and
a plurality of drain extensions extending in the second direction from the drain tab, and
each of the source extensions and the drain extensions has a length less than half a distance between the source tab and the drain tab in the second direction.