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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:
Jun. 27, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 30 ; 357 233 ; 357 16 ;
Abstract
A photodetector which operates at a cryogenic temperature by utilizing superconductivity is disclosed. A plurality of mutually spaced-apart superconducting layers are formed in such a manner as to be in contact with a semiconductor layer at least one of the surfaces of which is an incidence surface of light, and means capable of accumulating carriers in the semiconductor layer is disposed. A photodetector having high performance can thus be obtained and can be used as an interface of a system at a cryogenic temperature.