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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:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 3/1107 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 3/1107 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a photodetector having two or more avalanche-gain layered structures and multi-terminals. The avalanche photodetector includes an emitter light absorption layer structure located between a collector layer and an emitter layer (top contact layer) stacked on a substrate. The photodetector further comprises multiple avalanche-gain layered structures consisting of a charge layer, a multiplication layer and a contact layer between the light absorption layer and said collector layer.