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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1982
Alan C Bouley, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Harold R Riedl, Adelphi, MD (US);
James D Jensen, Highland, MD (US);
Steven R Jost, Baldwinsville, NY (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An infrared sensitive photodiode which is made of an epitaxial layer of a miconductor alloy which is a lead chalcogenide, a lead-tin chalcogenide, or a lead-cadmium chalcogenide grown on a single crystal substrate of an infrared transparent, electrically insulating material, an Ohmic contact deposited on the epitaxial layer, and a non-Ohmic Pb metal contact deposited on the epitaxial layer to form a Schottky barrier, the improvement comprising the inclusion of halide ions in the interface region between the non-Ohmic lead metal contact and the epitaxial layer of semiconductor material.