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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2021
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Marc De Cea Falco, Cambridge, MA (US);
Amir H. Atabaki, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rajeev J. Ram, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/025 (2006.01); G02F 1/225 (2006.01); H01L 31/0745 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/025 (2013.01); G02F 1/2257 (2013.01); H01L 31/0745 (2013.01);
Abstract
A photovoltaic modulator utilizes free carriers generated by absorption of optical radiation passing through the modulator to achieve ultra-low energy modulation of the radiation. The photovoltaic modulator can also function as an electro-optic transducer for low-power, low-EMI, high-density sensing applications.