Hamamatsu-Photonics K.k.

Tomoko Suzuki

Toru Hirohata

Minoru Niigaki

Masami Yamada

Yoshihiko Mizushima

Yasuharu Negi

Kenichi Sugimoto

Norio Asakura

Tuneo Ihara

Hirofumi Kan

Yoshihisa Warashina

Katsuyuki Kinoshita

Kimitsugu Nakamura

Kazutoshi Nakajima

Takashi Iida

Tomihiko Kuroyanagi

Koichiro Oba

Toshihiro Suzuki

Tsuneo Ihara

Minoru Nigaki

A photoelectric emission surface which is excellent in stability and reproducibility of photoelectric conversion characteristics and has a structure capable of obtaining a high photosensitivity is provided. A predetermined voltage is applied between an upper surface electrode and a lower surface electrode by a battery. Upon application of this voltage, a p-n junction formed between a contact layer and an electron emission layer is reversely biased. A depletion layer extends from the p-n junction into the photoelectric emission surface, and an electric field is formed in the electron emission layer and a light absorbing layer in a direction for accelerating photoelectrons. When incident light is absorbed in the light absorbing layer to excite photoelectrons, the photoelectrons are accelerated by the electric field toward the emission surface. The photoelectrons obtain an energy upon this electric field acceleration, and are transited, in the electron emission layer, to a conduction band at a higher energy level, and emitted into a vacuum.

Photomultiplier having a photocathode comprised of semiconductor material

A photoelectric emission surface which is excellent in stability and reproducibility of photoelectric conversion characteristics and has a structure capable of obtaining a high photosensitivity is provided. A predetermined voltage is applied between an upper surface electrode and a lower surface electrode by a battery. Upon application of this voltage, a p-n junction formed between a contact layer and an electron emission layer is reversely biased. A depletion layer extends from the p-n junction into the photoelectric emission surface, and an electric field is formed in the electron emission layer and a light absorbing layer in a direction for accelerating photoelectrons. When incident light is absorbed in the light absorbing layer to excite photoelectrons, the photoelectrons are accelerated by the electric field toward the emission surface. The photoelectrons obtain an energy upon this electric field acceleration, and are transitioned, in the electron emission layer, to a conduction band at a higher energy level, and emitted into a vacuum.

Photomultiplier having a photocathode comprised of a compound

There is disclosed a photocathode comprising:

Photocathode capable of detecting position of incident light in one or

This invention relates to a semiconductor photo-electron-emitting device for emitting photoelectrons excited from the valence band to the conduction band by incident photons on a semiconductor layer. The device includes a Schottky electrode formed on the emitting surface on a surface of the semiconductor layer, and a conductor layer formed on a surface opposite to the emitting surface. A set bias voltage is applied between the Schottky electrode and the conductor layer to accelerate photoelectrons generated by the excitation of incident photons to the emitting surface and to transfer the accelerated photoelectrons from an energy band of a smaller effective mass to an energy band of a larger effective mass.

Semiconductor photo-electron-emitting device

A junction, such as a Schottky junction, is formed between a conductive electrode and a semiconductor. A bias voltage is applied between the conductive electrode and an outward-emission-side electrode formed on the semiconductor at the side opposite to the junction. Upon illumination, photoelectrons are internally emitted in the conductive electrode into the semiconductor, transported through the semiconductor, and emitted outward from the semiconductor surface, which has been so treated as to reduce the surface barrier height. The semiconductor is semi-insulating, or a p-n junction is formed therein.

Photoemitter

SUM and CARRY output signals of a first optical half adder are provided to one input terminal of a second optical half adder and an optical latch memory, respectively, and an output signal of the optical latch memory is provided to the other input terminal of the second optical half adder. Input and output of the two optical half adders and optical latch memory are performed through an optical signal. Each optical half adder includes two light-receiving elements each having a symmetrical electrode arrangement in which two Schottky junctions are connected to each other opposite in polarity, and peripheral elements of resistors, a capacitor and an amplifier. The optical latch memory is an optical flip-flop memory in which a high-speed light-receiving element produces an electric signal in response to an input optical signals, and a high-speed light-emitting element produces, in response to the electric signal guided from the light-receiving element, feed-back light to be applied to the light-receiving element and an output optical signal.

Optical full adder

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Tomoko Suzuki