Patent 7977708 was granted and assigned to TriQuint Semiconductor on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A co-integrated HBT/FET apparatus and system, and methods for making the same, are disclosed. A co-integrated HBT/FET apparatus may include a first epitaxial structure formed over a substrate, the first epitaxial structure forming, at least in part, a FET device, a separation layer formed over the first epitaxial structure, and a second epitaxial structure formed over the separation layer, the second epitaxial structure forming, at least in part, a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) device.