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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:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Aaron Eugene Bond, Allentown, PA (US);
Assignee:
Agere Systems Guardian Corp., Orlando, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 3/10328 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 3/10328 ;
Abstract
The invention is a semiconductor avalanche photodetector including an essentially undoped multiplication layer; a thin, undoped light absorbing layer; and a doped waveguide layer which is separate from the light absorbing layer and is capable of coupling incident light into the light absorbing layer.