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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. 14, 1977
Filed:
May. 16, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Samuel M Blumenfeld, Schenectady, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 32 ; 357 55 ; 357 60 ; 357 88 ; 357 89 ; 357 90 ;
Abstract
A thermal gradient zone melting technique is employed to migrate an array of metal buttons through a body of semiconductor material to form high aspect ratio P-N junctions therein. Semiconductor devices embodying such P-N junctions are suitable for employment in X-ray and infrared detection and imaging. Each button preferably has the configuration of an equilateral triangle and the array preferably has a hexagonal configuration.