Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ryohichi Masuda

Hidenori Kawanishi

Mikio Katayama

An integrated circuit includes a first detection element that detects a temperature of an object based on infrared light reflected from the object and a second detection element that detects an image of the object based on visible light reflected from the object on the same substrate.

Integrated circuit and measuring device

A thin, lightweight, and highly reliable energy ray detector that enables high-speed reading is provided. An energy ray detector () includes TFTs () that are arranged in a grid pattern and that each have an active layer formed of a semiconductor having an electrical property changing in accordance with the amount of applied energy ray radiation, and a property detection circuit unit () and a controller () that detect information regarding the energy ray radiation from changes in the electrical property of the TFTs ().

Energy ray detector

Variation in threshold voltages in a device operation is reduced. An insulator layer which is disposed to be opposed to a channel regionof a MOS transistor and is formed to have a laminated structure of a silicon nitride filmand a silicon oxide filmand an inverted signal input unit which inputs a signal obtained by inverting an input signal inputted into a source regionof a MOS transistor into a channel regionare provided and the inverted signal input unit includes another gate electrodewhich is formed on an extended portion of the channel regionof the gate electrodein a manner to be adjacent to the gate electrodeof the MOS transistor and a CMOS circuitwhich inverts an input signal inputted into the source regionof the MOS transistor in accordance with an input value of the input signal and inputs a signal obtained through inversion in the CMOS circuitinto another gate electrode

Semiconductor device for radiation detection

According to the present invention, anode-side ends of LED arrays () and () are connected to an identical point. A constant current circuit () drives the LED array () by a constant current, whereas, a constant current control circuit () drives the LED array () by a constant current and by pulses.

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Osaka, Japan

Ryohichi Masuda