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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:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2009
Applicant:
John Davies, Crawley, GB;
Inventor:
John Davies, Crawley, GB;
Assignee:
THALES HOLDING UK PLC, Surrey, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/44 (2006.01); H01L 31/09 (2006.01); H03K 17/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/09 (2013.01); H03K 17/78 (2013.01); G01J 1/44 (2013.01);
Abstract
A photoconductive switch comprising a photoconductive material and first and second contacts provided on said photoconductive material, wherein said first and second contacts comprise a plurality of interdigitated tracks, the tracks of each contact being separated from the tracks of the other contact by a photoconductive gap, the tracks being curved such that the minimum photoconductive gap measured in a first direction remains substantially similar regardless of the orientation of the first direction.