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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, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eric Shanks Johnson, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Joseph Lawrence Schmit, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148188 ; 148-15 ; 148 33 ;
Abstract
A method of adjusting the donor concentration in a body of mercury cadmium telluride, or in regions of a body, comprising the steps of contacting the donor material region with a donor material of either aluminum or silicon and heating the body at a temperature of at least 550.degree. C for sufficient time to diffuse the donor material into the body. In a preferred embodiment, the heating is done in the presence of a source of mercury vapor pressure other than the body of semiconductor.