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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:
Aug. 09, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 07, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masanori Ito, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 15 ; 357 30 ; 357 71 ; 357 67 ;
Abstract
A metal-semiconductor-metal photodiode comprises a semiconductor layer and a cathode electrode and an anode electrode which are formed on the semiconductor layer and are made of such mutually different electrode materials that the cathode electrode has a Schottky barrier height .phi..sub.bn from a conduction band satisfying .phi..sub.bn >Eg/2 and the anode electrode has a Schottky barrier height .phi..sub.bp from a valence band satisfying .phi..sub.bp >Eg/2, where Eg denotes the energy band gap.