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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:
Sep. 23, 1980
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard F Greene, Bethesda, MD (US);
Kurt P Scharnhorst, Columbia, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250338 ; 338 18 ; 357 30 ;
Abstract
An amorphous film (44) of a photoresponsive semi-conducting material such germanium-telluride deposited upon a thick silicon dioxide layer (40) formed on a silicon chip substrate (38). The silicon chip (38) underlying the central region of the amorphous film (44) is etched through to the silicon dioxide layer (40) to define a trough (48) thermally isolating the central region of the silicon dioxide layer (40).