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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Kenneth Severn, Totnes, GB;
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/306 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/306 ;
Abstract
A rear light entry photodetector array chip is secured face-down with solder on to the front face of a ceramic submount provided with electrically conductive vias. A frame-shaped mass of solder seals the chip to the submount to provide a hermetic enclosure protecting sensitive semiconductor surface areas of the photodetector chip array where electric fields are liable to be present in the vicinity of a pn or metal/semiconductor junction. The place of the photodetector array can be taken by a similar construction array of semiconductor light-emissive opto-electronic devices, such as VCSELs, or a mixed array including emitters and detectors.