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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:
Jun. 08, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kurt Peter Scharnhorst, Beltsville, MD (US);
Richard F Bis, Mount Airy, MD (US);
Jack R Dixon, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Bland B Houston, Jr, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Richard W Brown, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Harold R Riedl, Adelphi, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148175 ; 29572 ; 136 89 ; 2502 / ; 252 / ; 357 15 ; 357 30 ;
Abstract
A junction photodetector employing Pb.sub.1-x Sn.sub.x Te in narrow film strips grown epitaxially on an appropriate substrate. An appropriate metal overlaps the film to form a metal-semiconductor contact.