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6847025 Semiconductor image position sensitive device  
In order to reduce errors in sensing an image position derived from noise light such as background noise, a semiconductor image position sensing device is provided with a photoelectric layer...
6838652 Active cell with analog storage for a CMOS technology photosensitive sensor  
An active cell for a photosensitive sensor that includes photosensitive diode in which the transistors of the cell are implemented using CMOS technology. The cell operates with an exposure phase in...
6833540 System for measuring a biological parameter by means of photoacoustic interaction  
A system for measuring a biological parameter, such as blood glucose, the system comprising the steps of directing laser pulses from a light guide into a body part consisting of soft tissue, such...
6831265 Photodetector having improved photoresponsitivity over a broad wavelength region  
A photodetector includes an optical absorption layer having a thickness d optimized with regard to a voltage applied across the optical absorption layer such that there occurs an increase of...
6828539 Detection signal correction method and device as well as solid-state detector for use therewith  
In the state where X-rays are not projected, image signals S 1 are read out from a detector 1 , and the values of these image signals S 1 are stored as offset correction values in a correction...
6828541 Light receiving element array having isolated pin photodiodes  
A light-receiving element array is provided in which the degradation of characteristic thereof due to the crosstalk may be prevented. An n-InP layer, an i-InGaAs layer, and an n-InP layer are...
6828545 Hybrid microelectronic array structure having electrically isolated supported islands, and its fabrication  
A hybrid microelectronic array structure is fabricated from a readout integrated circuit array of microelectronic integrated circuits and a supported array of supported islands. The supported...
6825542 High speed waveguide photodetector  
The present invention relates to a semiconductor photodetector. The photodetector is a waveguide photodetector, which comprises: a waveguide ( 1,2,3 ) having a III-V ridge structure including an...
6825455 Method and apparatus for photomixing  
A method and corresponding device for determining the phase- and/or amplitude data of an electromagnetic wave. In order to bring about the spatial depth resolution of the image data obtained, the...
6822215 Optoelectronic sensor including a transparent optode material  
An optoelectronic sensor, which is based on optodes and with which, thanks to optode material that has been rendered reflective, virtually any angle for injecting the light into the optode material...
6818880 Enhanced photo-EMF sensor with high bandwidth and large field of view  
A photo-EMF sensor and a method of making same has a substrate with a semiconducting layer; a plurality of sensing regions in the layer, each sensing region including (i) a pair of electrodes...
6809309 CMOS image sensor  
A CMOS image sensor is disclosed in which a charge storage gate is formed at one side of a photodiode region to increase charge capacity for each cell, thereby improving characteristics of a...
6809308 Photodetector and photodetecting system capable of detecting information about the two-dimensional intensity distribution and wavelength distribution of incident light  
A photodetector which has the function of measuring the intensity distribution of light with a simple and inexpensive construction and which has a selectivity for a measured wavelength band. The...
6806454 Image sensors with via-coupled photoconductive mediums  
Image sensors are provided that reduce conflicts between different sensor functions because sensor structures do not demand access to the same internal spaces. Accordingly, sensor structures can be...
6803553 Image sensor with charge recycling  
An image sensor having a circuit to recover photo-generated charge and to apply it to reduce consumption of power from a power supply (e.g., an external battery). In one embodiment (e.g., FIG. 4),...
6800838 Image sensor having reduced stress color filters and method of making  
A method of forming a base for a color filter layer of an image sensor is disclosed. The image sensor includes an array of pixels formed in a substrate. The method comprises depositing a polymer...
6800836 Image pickup device, radiation image pickup device and image processing system  
An image pickup device has a plurality of photoelectric converter substrates carrying respective input/output terminals connected to the photoelectric converters. The device comprises leads...
6797938 Polarimetric optical device with an insulating layer between detectors  
This optical polarimetric detector comprises: a first active detector element having a photoconductor ( 1 ) with which a first diffraction grating ( 3 ) is associated allowing incident light from...
6797934 Optical transient sensor having a charge/discharge circuit  
An optical transient sensor circuit includes a photodiode in series with a MOS feedback transistor connected across a voltage difference. An inverting amplifier having its input connected to the...
6797935 Method of charging the photodiode element in active pixel arrays  
A forward biased diode 40 is used to charge up a photodiode 26 rather than an NMOS transistor. This photodiode charging mechanism increases the dynamic range and optical response of active...
6794631 Three-terminal avalanche photodiode  
An avalanche photodiode (APD) includes an absorption layer above the multiplication layer, where the thickness of the multiplication layer is defined through a growth process. The APD can also have...
6794630 Method and apparatus for adjusting the threshold of a CMOS radiation-measuring circuit  
A radiation measuring technique includes adjusting a threshold level of a radiation sensor in a radiation-measuring circuit and obtaining an output signal based on radiation dose sensed by the...
6791073 Optical receiver having baffle including a plurality of apertures  
A baffle containing a plurality of small apertures is mounted on the receiver aperture of an optical receiver, such as a wireless optical telecommunication system receiver. The baffle attenuates...
6791152 Photodetector device and method for manufacturing the same  
A photodetector device includes a doped semiconductor substrate. A first intrinsic semiconductor material layer, a main reflector, a second intrinsic semiconductor material layer, an upper...
6791732 Systems and methods for altering the propagation of optical signals within optical media  
Optical modulators are provided. A representative optical modulator includes an optical medium that is adapted to propagate optical signals. An array of lattice sites are arranged in the optical...
6787757 Apparatus and methods for generating an electronic signal responsive to selected light  
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for generating an electronic signal responsive to selected wavelengths of the optical spectrum. An optical thickness differential between two or more...
6781109 Active matrix substrate having transparent connecting terminals  
An active-matrix substrate is provided with electrode wires disposed in a lattice form, a plurality of switching elements disposed respectively at intersections of the electrode wires, and...
6777665 High frequency optical signal sampling device  
An apparatus for converting an input optical signal to an electrical signal. The input optical signal is characterized by a modulation frequency and a modulation wavelength. The apparatus includes...
6777659 Device and method for detecting the phase and amplitude of electromagnetic waves  
The presented invention concerns an apparatus for detecting the phase and amplitude of electromagnetic waves, comprising at least two modulations photogates which are sensitive to the...
6774420 Image sensor  
An image sensor with improved productivity and sensitivity is provided. The image sensor includes a plurality of unit pixels, each unit pixel including an oxide film formed upon a semiconductor...
6770861 Image-sensing device  
In an image-sensing device, a temperature-corrected image signal obtained from a sensor 1 is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter circuit 2 . The image signal thus converted into...
6768093 Solid state imaging device and driving method thereof  
Disclosed is a solid state imaging device, comprising a unit pixel 101 including a photo diode 111 and a MOS transistor 112 for optical signal detection provided with a high-density buried...
6768094 Photo-voltaic trigger system  
A trigger system including a photosensor having a polarizing light filter n positioned in a light receiving end of a housing. A lens is disposed in the housing for focusing light onto a transducer....
6765190 Multi-element electron-transfer optical detector system  
A multi-element optical detector system includes an electrically resistive screen that is substantially transparent to radiation energy having a wavelength of interest. A plurality of electron...
6762473 Ultra thin back-illuminated photodiode array structures and fabrication methods  
Ultra thin back-illuminated photodiode array structures and fabrication methods. The photodiode arrays are back illuminated photodiode arrays having a substrate of a first conductivity type having...
6759645 Hybrid thin-film photoelectric transducer and transparent laminate for the transducer  
A hybrid-type thin film photoelectric converter includes a transparent electrode ( 12 ), at least one amorphous photoelectric conversion unit ( 20 ), at least one crystalline photoelectric...
6756578 Photocell bias circuit  
Receiver circuits are provided for detecting a target light source. The circuits include a photocell arranged to detect light impinging thereupon, and a biasing circuit that maintains a constant...
6750490 Pinned floating photoreceptor with active pixel sensor  
A pinned photodiode is operated without a transfer gate. This is done by forming a pinned photodiode which has a selective connection to the substrate. When the connection is turned on, the...
6750438 Single-element electron-transfer optical detector system  
An optical detector system includes an electrically resistive screen that is substantially transparent to radiation energy having a wavelength of interest. An electron transfer element (e.g., a low...
6740807 Light-receiving device and image sensor  
A differential response light-receiving device comprising: a semiconductor electrode comprising an electrically conductive layer and a photosensitive layer containing a semiconductor sensitized by...
6740861 Photodetector and method having a conductive layer with etch susceptibility different from that of the semiconductor substrate  
A photodetector includes semiconductor conductive layer, light-absorbing layer and wide bandgap layer, which are stacked in this order on a semi-insulating semiconductor substrate. The conductive...
6740860 Photodetector, photosensing position detector, coordinate input device, coordinate input/output apparatus, and photodetection method  
A photodetector includes a photoreceiving unit which receives a light beam that blinks a plurality of times per detection period and coverts the received light beam into an output signal. A signal...
6737626 Image sensors with underlying and lateral insulator structures  
An integrated image sensor having a conditioned top silicon oxide layer and/or one or more additional insulating layers/structures to reduce optical and/or electrical noise. The image sensor has an...
6730899 Reduced dark current for CMOS image sensors  
A CMOS image sensor comprises a substrate of a first conductivity type, a photodetector for capturing incident light and converting it to a charge; a transfer gate for passing the charge from the...
6726103 Imaging system with built-in diagnostics  
An imaging system with built-in diagnostics and preferably implemented as an integrated system-on-a-chip (SOC) imaging system. According to one implementation of the present invention, the imaging...
6727486 CMOS image sensor having a chopper-type comparator to perform analog correlated double sampling  
A CMOS image sensor performing an analog correlated double sampling is disclosed. The CMOS image sensor may include an image capture device for capturing an image for analog image signal from an...
6713748 Image detection device  
An image detection device includes a pixel portion (OEF) having a photoelectric conversion film for converting incident light into a signal charge and a pixel capacitor for accumulating the signal...
6706479 Bio-chip, photoluminescent methods for identifying biological material, and apparatuses for use with such methods and bio-chips  
A method detects binding of molecules, advantageously without tagging molecules in the sample. A sensor is used in which is included a single stranded nucleic acid sequence and a photoluminescent...
6703598 Semiconductor photo-detecting apparatus  
A semiconductor photodetecting apparatus 1 comprises a base 2 and a CCD chip 4 . The CCD chip 4 is secured to the base 2 when a resin 8 is supplied and cured. The base 2 is formed with...
6693268 Auto feedback and photo attenuation structure of vertical cavity surface emitting laser  
An auto feedback and photo attenuation structure of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) includes a VCSEL combined with a monitor photodetector (MPD). The thickness of the absorbing...