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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2023
Artilux, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yun-Chung Na, San Jose, CA (US);
Che-Fu Liang, Zhubei, TW;
Artilux, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus including a semiconductor substrate; an absorption layer coupled to the semiconductor substrate, the absorption layer including a photodiode region configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons; one or more first switches controlled by a first control signal, the one or more first switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the first control signal; and one or more second switches controlled by a second control signal, the one or more second switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the second control signal, where the second control signal is different from the first control signal.