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5562781 Amorphous, hydrogenated carbon (a-C:H) photovoltaic cell  
A photovoltaic cell comprising a plurality of film layers, at least one of the layers being a semiconductor film of amorphous, hydrogenated carbon. The preferred embodiment comprises a plurality of...
5559358 Opto-electro-mechanical device or filter, process for making, and sensors made therefrom  
The present invention relates to microstructures fabricated from semiconductor material and having a flexible member which is excited into various modes of resonance and in which such resonance is...
5559628 Light pulse generator  
The light pulse generator includes a source for generating a light beam, an electroabsorbent modulator for modulating the light beam into light pulses, and means for applying voltage control to the...
5557167 Transmission mode photocathode sensitive to ultravoilet light  
A photocathode which is responsive to ultraviolet light to release photoelectrons includes a supportive window layer of sapphire and a single-crystal active layer of AlGaN. Interposed between the...
5536333 Process for making photovoltaic devices and resultant product  
A process and apparatus (70) for making a large area photovoltaic device (22) that is capable of generating low cost electrical power. The apparatus (70) for performing the process includes an...
5528071 P-I-N photodiode with transparent conductor n+layer  
The elimination of the spatial variation in the frequency response of large area p-i-n photodiodes is disclosed using indium tin oxide (ITO) n + material as a transparent contact overlayer. The...
5527397 Photoelectric conversion device  
The present photoelectric conversion device includes a photo-receiving surface generating electron-hole pairs due to a distortion of an energy band thereof after receiving light, and two contacts...
5507881 Thin-film solar cell and method of manufacturing same  
Solar cells are formed of (a) a transparent substrate; (b) a transparent electrode; (c) a first doped layer comprising amorphous silicon oxide, optionally including nitrogen, said first doped layer...
5508829 LTG AlGaAs non-linear optical material and devices fabricated therefrom  
A light responsive device (10) has a body (12) that includes a matrix comprised of Group III-V material, the matrix having inclusions (14) comprised of a Group V material contained therein. The...
5483095 Optical semiconductor device  
An optical semiconductor device including one of a light responsive semiconductor element, a light emitting semiconductor element, and a light responsive and light emitting semiconductor element,...
5468988 Large area, through-hole, parallel-connected photovoltaic device  
A large area photovoltaic device includes a plurality of photovoltaic regions electrically interconnected in parallel. The regions are defined by through hole connections which establish electrical...
5461280 Field emission device employing photon-enhanced electron emission  
A cold cathode field emission device employs photon energy and electric field induced electron emission enhancement to provide subthreshold photoelectric emission; and, alternatively,...
5456764 Solar cell and a method for the manufacture thereof  
Solar cell made using a heterojunction formed from a crystalline silicon layer of a first conductivity type and a hydrogenated amorphous silicon film of a second conductivity type different from...
5455430 Photovoltaic device having a semiconductor grade silicon layer formed on a metallurgical grade substrate  
The disclosure relates to a semiconductor device comprising silicon having a substrate composed of low grade silicon, a silicon layer whose silicon purity is higher than that of the low grade...
5453638 Bonding and encapsulated three dimensional hybrid integrated circuit modules  
System for packaging integrated circuits, especially sensors, in a housing, which also comprises multicontact bondings, especially hybrid ICs for three-dimensional arrangement of modules, wherein...
5449413 UV/IR reflecting solar cell cover  
A new solar cell cover comprises a substrate that transmits the spectral region to which the solar cell responds and a multilayer infrared-reflecting coating which incorporates means for...
5446310 Integrated circuit power device with external disabling of defective devices and method of fabricating same  
An integrated circuit power device includes many cell blocks which are electrically connected in parallel, with each of the cell blocks including at least one cell such as MOSFET, electrically...
5428225 Coupled quantum well optical intensity modulator for INP based optoelectronic integrated circuits and methods therefor  
An integrated optical intensity modulator. The modulator is an optical waveguide on a semi-insulating substrate and having a core layer for transmitting an optical signal. The modulator includes...
5424573 Semiconductor package having optical interconnection access  
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip, an interconnection substrate having the semiconductor chip mounted on one surface of the interconnection substrate, and a package base having...
5422498 Apparatus for diagnosing interconnections of semiconductor integrated circuits  
The invention provides an apparatus for diagnosing a void within a conductive material for interconnections of semiconductor integrated circuits. A laser beam irradiating section is provided for...
5412229 Semiconductor light detecting device making use of a photodiode chip  
A semiconductor light detecting device in which a housing with an optical fiber is inserted in is secured to a header with a photodiode chip mounted on integral therewith, and a light detecting...
5394004 Multicolored electric field light emitting device with protruded electrode  
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same capable of simplifying the process of making and reducing the cost of making. In the method a first layer is formed which has a plurality of...
5384480 Clear-mold solid-state imaging device using a charge coupled device  
A clear-mold solid-state imaging device using a charge coupled device, in which a solid-state imaging device is molded with a transparent resin. The solid-state imaging device includes a surface...
5373172 Semiconducting diamond light-emitting element  
A semiconducting diamond electroluminescence element comprises an electrically conductive substrate, a semiconducting diamond layer formed on the substrate, an insulating diamond layer formed on...
5364710 Apparatus for converting light energy into electric energy and storing the same  
An apparatus for converting light energy into electric energy and storing the same, which comprises a photoelectric conversion unit having an element that generates an electromotive force by...
5352919 Optical integrated semiconductor device  
An optical integrated semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a diffraction grating formed on the semiconductor substrate, an optical waveguide layer deposited on the semiconductor...
5349209 Diamond/organic LED  
A light emitting diode including a carrier injection layer of semiconductor material, such as diamond, and a light emitting layer of electroluminescent organic material, such as PPV, positioned to...
5342451 Semiconductor optical power receiver  
A gallium-arsenide optical power receiver of the type having a pn junction formed over a substrate and buffer layer has a window layer of a first alloy of aluminum gallium arsenide (Al x Ga 1 -x...
5340408 Inverse delta-doping for improved open circuit voltage of solar cells or photo diodes  
A solar cell or photo diode has an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer which form a pn-junction at the metallurgical interface of the layers. A thin sheet of undoped...
5332918 Ultra-high-speed photoconductive devices using semi-insulating layers  
An ultra-high-speed photoconductive device is described which comprises a homoepitaxial semi-insulating III-V layer, or body, upon which ohmic/conductive contacts, or strips, separated by a small...
5332911 Semiconductor component with adiabatic transport in edge channels  
A semiconductor radiation detector with layer-wise construction and a contive region having a two-dimensional or quasi one-dimensional electron or hole gas is provided in which adiabatic transport...
5329139 Semiconductor integrated circuit device analyzable by using laser beam inducing current  
A semiconductor integrated circuit device is subjected to a non-contact and non-destructive analysis using a laser beam after fabrication process, and impurity regions are previously formed in an...
5321290 Thermal imaging devices  
A thermal imaging device having both serial and parallel content is provided by a number of infra-red radiation detector strips supported side by side on an insulating substrate, each strip having...
5311221 Electromagnetic wave modulator equipped with coupled quantal wells, and application to an electromagnetic wave detector  
A semi-conducting structure delimits two quantal wells (CP1, CP2) connected across a barrier layer (CB). The application of an electric field to the structure makes possible the transfer of...
5306912 Optically addressed thermal imaging device  
A thermal imaging device includes detector pixels A, B, C provided by a pyroelectric layer 1 arranged between electrode structures 3 and 4. A photoconductive layer 7 is provided between the...
5304539 Method for fabricating integrated microelectronic assembly comprising photoconductor with oxide superconducting leads  
A beam (e.g. a focused laser beam) is utilized to irradiate the entire lateral width of a limited-extent portion of an elongated superconducting thin-film lead. The irradiated portion is converted...
5299057 Monolithically integrated optical amplifier and photodetector tap  
A semiconductor optical amplifier with a high speed photodetector acting as an optical tap is disclosed. The device functions simultaneously as an in-line optical amplifier and as a high-speed...
5293037 Opto-electronic converter with electron mirrors and quantum wire  
An opto-electronic converter comprises a mesoscopic resonant cavity constituted by a quantum wire made of a material that is a conductor or a semiconductor and situated between two electron mirrors...
5289286 Solid state sensor having logarithmic photovoltaic response, with pixel uniformity correction and white balance circuitry therefor  
A solid-state image sensing apparatus includes a solid state image sensing device having a characteristic that an output voltage thereof natural-logarithmically varies in accordance with light...
5283688 Optical amplifier having a semiconductor with a short switching time  
The amplifier according to the invention comprises a shallow, narrow well (P1) in which amplification takes place and a deep, wide well (P2) for collecting the carriers at the end of excitation,...
5283691 Solid state imaging apparatus  
A solid state imaging apparatus characterized in that a phase low pass filter is formed by providing an array of recesses and projections having a predetermined repeated pitch on the surface of the...
5279678 Photovoltaic cell with thin CS layer  
An improved photovoltaic panel and method of forming a photovoltaic panel are disclosed for producing a high efficiency CdS/CdTe photovoltaic cell. The photovoltaic panel of the present invention...
5261013 Photoelectric converter and image reading apparatus mounting the same  
A photoelectric converter includes a transparent substrate having a photoelectric converting element provided on a surface opposing a document relating to reading of image information, a...
5260822 Tapered semiconductor laser gain structure with cavity spoiling grooves  
A semiconductor laser gain structure having a tapered gain region comprising cavity spoilers for receiving light which is reflected off of the output facet back into the semiconductor and removing...
5252719 Process for preparing protein-oriented membrane  
A process for producing a protein-oriented membrane which is enhanced physically and chemically by orienting protein and cross linking the oriented protein together, is described. The proteinaceous...
5239172 Light converging filter and method for manufacturing the same  
In a color filter or a monochromatic filter (4) to be used by bonding to imaging sensor (1), at least two resin layers (A) and (B) adjacent to each other on transparent substrate and having...
5239598 Electro-optic waveguide device  
An electro-optic waveguide device (10) comprises an assembly of waveguides (30) connected to a common light input region (41) and forming a common far field diffraction pattern (44). The device...
5239188 Gallium nitride base semiconductor device  
Disclosed are a gallium nitride type semiconductor device that has a single crystal of (Ga l -x Al x ) l -y In y N, which suppresses the occurrence of crystal defects and thus has very high...
5229622 Integrated semiconductor optoelectronic switch  
An integrated semiconductor device which forms an optoelectronic switch and includes: a directional coupler structure in which one of the guides receives the input light power and the other guide...
RE34309 Image sensor device having plural photoelectric converting elements  
An image sensor device provided with a linear array of photoelectric converting elements each having a capacitor on a control electrode area of a semiconductor transistor is disclosed. The image...