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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2011
Applicant:
Joon Sung Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Inventor:
Joon Sung Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/74 (2006.01); H01L 31/111 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A silicon photomultiplier maintains the photon detection efficiency high while increasing a dynamic range, by reducing the degradation of an effective fill factor that follows the increase of cell number density intended for a dynamic range enhancement.