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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1987

Filed:

Sep. 08, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:

Eugene D Savoye, Lancaster, PA (US);

Assignee:

RCA Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 24 ; 357 2315 ; 357 30 ; 357 49 ; 357 80 ;
Abstract

Charge integration is selectively interrupted in a semiconductor imager with thinned substrate, by modulating the electric field normal to its back-illuminated surface. This suppresses smear generated during field transfer in certain types of imager when exposed to high-energy images, for example. The thinned substrate is cemented with an electrically insulating epoxy to a glass backing plate bearing a transparent electrode, the potential on which is varied to modulate the drift field.


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