The Schottky Powermite employs the Schottky Barrier principle with a barrier metal and epitaxial construction that produces optimal forward voltage drop-reverse current tradeoff. The advanced packaging techniques provide for a highly efficient micro miniature, space saving surface mount Rectifier. With its unique heatsink design, the Powermite has the same thermal performance as the SMA while being 50% smaller in footprint area. Because of its small size, it is ideal for use in portable and battery powered products such as cellular and cordless phones, chargers, notebook computers, printers, PDAs and PCMCIA cards. Typical applications are ac/dc and dc-dc converters, reverse battery protection, and ORing of multiple supply voltages and any other application where performance and size are critical.