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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2017
Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (US);
Zhiyuan Wang, West Lebanon, NH (US);
Jiaju Ma, West Lebanon, NH (US);
Jifeng Liu, Hanover, NH (US);
Eric R. Fossum, Wolfeboro, NH (US);
Xiaoxin Wang, Hanover, NH (US);
Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor-based photon-counting sensor comprising a metal-insulator-semiconductor internal photoemission (e.g., thermionic-emission) detector formed on and/or in a first surface of a semiconductor substrate, and at least one jot formed on and/or in a second side of a semiconductor substrate. The at least one MIS photoemission detector and the at least one jot are configured such that a photocarrier generated in response to a photon incident on the MIS thermionic-emission detector is readout by the at least one jot.