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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:
Jan. 25, 1977
Filed:
May. 30, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian S Miller, Alexandria, VA (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357-6 ; 357 30 ; 357 52 ;
Abstract
A method of producing a tunnel emitter photocathode consisting of heating a emiconductor layer and then depositing a layer of aluminum oxide on one side thereof at a rapid rate and then baking out the wafer in a hydrogen gas atmosphere. After depositing electrical contacts on each side of the wafer, a metallic emitter layer is evaporated over the aluminum oxide layer with the metallic emitter layer treated with a low work function material such as cesium and oxygen to further increase the emission efficiency.