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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2010
Applicants:
Piotr Kropelnicki, Cologne, DE;
Marco Russ, Oberhausen, DE;
Holger Vogt, Muelheim, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A bolometer has a semiconductor membrane having a single-crystalline portion, and spacers so as to keep the semiconductor membrane at a predetermined distance from an underlying substrate. The complementarily doped regions of the single-crystalline portion form a diode and the predetermined distance corresponds to a fourth of an infrared wavelength.