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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:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2008
Applicants:
Robert J. Nemanich, Tempo, AZ (US);
Franz A. M. Koeck, Tempe, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Robert J. Nemanich, Tempo, AZ (US);
Franz A. M. Koeck, Tempe, AZ (US);
Assignee:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A thermionic electron emitter/collector includes a substrate and a doped diamond electron emitter/collector layer on the substrate. The doped diamond electron emitter/collector layer has at least a first and a second doping concentration as a function of depth such that the first doping concentration is different from the second doping concentration.