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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1982
Jonathan P Rode, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Rockwell International Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a detector array for sensing electromagnetic radiation, which is based upon a semiconducting layer of a first conductivity type with an array of junction regions of a second conductivity type located in a major surface thereof. A first insulating layer is deposited over the major surface, and a plurality of conducting plates is disposed on the first insulating layer around each junction region. Each conducting plate creates an induced junction in the semiconducting layer upon the application of an electrical potential between the plate and the semiconducting layer. A second insulating layer is deposited over the plates and the first insulating layer, with a contact through the first and second insulating layers associated with each junction region. Each conducting plate is connected to a control line deposited over the second insulating layer for selectively applying the potential to that plate. A third insulating layer is deposited over the device, with an opening through that layer to each of the contacts.