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7365381 Optical sensor with improved planarization  
In a photodetector where a circuit section, in which an interconnection is formed, is formed adjacent to a light receiving section, photo sensitivity within a light receiving surface is prevented...
7361880 Digital camera module for detachably mounting with flex printed circuit board  
A digital camera module ( 100 ) includes a holder, an image sensor chip package ( 30 ), a number of conductive elements ( 24 ) and a circuit board ( 40 ). The holder defines a receiving portion....
7355229 Masked spacer etching for imagers  
The invention relates to a dual masked spacer etch for improved dark current performance in imagers. After deposition of spacer material such as oxide, N-channel regions are first opened for N + ...
7351997 Single photon receptor  
A photon receptor having a sensitivity threshold of a single photon is readily fabricated on a nanometric scale for compact and/or large-scale array devices. The fundamental receptor element is a...
7348649 Transparent conductive film  
The present invention provides a transparent conductive film having: a transparent base film; a transparent SiO x thin film having a thickness of from 10 to 100 nm, a refractive index of from 1.40...
7339971 Optical element and optical module  
An optical element comprising: a surface-emitting type semiconductor laser having an emission surface; and a photodetector element formed above the emission surface of the surface-emitting type...
7332785 Dye-sensitized solar cell  
A dye-sensitized solar cell with high conversion efficiency is provided. The dye-sensitized solar cell according to the present invention has, between an electrode ( 2 ) formed on a surface of a...
7332701 Dual-mode CMOS imaging sensor with supporting LED  
The present invention relates to a sensor device for sensing an image of an object, wherein a detection means ( 14 ) for detecting radiation received from the object is supported by a...
7329856 Image sensor having integrated infrared-filtering optical device and related method  
An image sensing device is disclosed having a die formed with an array of photosensing sites and a structure of optical material having infrared absorbing characteristics formed over the...
7323635 Photovoltaic cell  
A method of making a photovoltaic cell includes contacting a cross-linking agent with semiconductor particles, and incorporating the semiconductor particles into the photovoltaic cell.
7323730 Optically-configurable nanotube or nanowire semiconductor device  
The invention relates to a semiconductor device comprising at least two electrodes and at least one nanotube or nanowire, in particular a carbon nanotube or nanowire, the device including at least...
7323758 Solid state imaging device and method for producing the same  
On a light shielding film 7 , an anti-oxidation layer 9 covering at least the light shielding film 7 is formed. The anti-oxidation layer 9 is formed under a condition which does not oxidize...
7314772 Photonic device  
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices, or systems for forming a photonic device are described.
7312507 Sensitizing dye solar cell  
A dye-sensitized solar cell with high conversion efficiency is provided. The dye-sensitized solar cell according to the present invention has, between an electrode ( 2 ) formed on a surface of a...
7307326 Light receiving element and light receiving device incorporating circuit and optical disk drive  
A light receiving device includes a silicon substrate, a first P type diffusion layer on the silicon substrate, and a P type semiconductor layer on the P type diffusion layer. On a surface part of...
7307291 Gallium-nitride based ultraviolet photo detector  
A structure for a gallium-nitride (GaN) based ultraviolet photo detector is provided. The structure contains an n-type contact layer, a light absorption layer, a light penetration layer, and a...
7304361 Inexpensive organic solar cell and method of producing same  
The present invention proposes an organic photovoltaic component, particularly an organic solar cell, whose electrode is implemented as unstructured and is provided with a passivation layer, so...
7298943 Monolithic optical component  
The present invention relates to a monolithic optical component ( 400 ) comprising a light-absorbing layer and a waveguide structure ( 2 ). The invention is more particularly adapted to a...
7282777 Interband cascade detectors  
A device for detecting radiation, typically in the infrared. Photons are absorbed in an active region of a semiconductor device such that the absorption induces an interband electronic transition...
7279763 CMOS image sensor having photodiode and method for manufacturing the same  
A CMOS image sensor includes a photodiode in a semiconductor substrate; an insulating interlayer over the semiconductor substrate including the photodiode; a passivation layer pattern on the...
7276770 Fast Si diodes and arrays with high quantum efficiency built on dielectrically isolated wafers  
Fast silicon diodes and arrays with high quantum efficiency built on dielectrically isolated wafers. A waveguide is formed in the top surface of the silicon that utilizes total internal reflection...
7274096 Light transmissive cover, device provided with same and methods for manufacturing them  
A light transmissive cover for a device comprising: a cover member of light transmissive material; and a junction member joined to the cover member, the junction member being a member used to be...
7271333 Apparatus and method of production of thin film photovoltaic modules  
The present invention relates to light-weight thin-film photovoltaic cells, methods for making cells, modules made from cells, and methods for making modules from cells. The invention teaches a...
7268364 Hybrid devices  
Hybrid devices, such as optically erasable memory cells and light sensors, and related methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a device includes a structure capable of converting between a...
7265378 Electronic devices made with electron transport and/or anti-quenching layers  
The present invention is directed to a photoactive device comprising an anode, a cathode, and a photoactive layer, which device further comprises an electron transport and/or anti-quenching layer...
7262361 Semiconductor thin film electrodes made by using organic dyes as the photosensitizer and photoelectric conversion devices  
A semiconductor film electrode using a specific organic dye sensitizer, a high efficiency dye-sensitized photovoltaic conversion element using the electrode, and a dye-sensitized...
7262448 CMOS image sensor  
A CMOS image sensor is disclosed, to improve light-condensing efficiency by forming a minute lens array having a large curvature (long focal distance) for the increase in height of upper structures...
7253354 Liquid-containing photovoltaic element  
Liquid-containing photovoltaic element, comprising a platelike work electrode and a platelike counter-electrode adhered thereto by means of a vapour and liquid-tight peripheral edge, wherein the...
7253491 Silicon light-receiving device  
A silicon light-receiving device is provided. In the device, a substrate is based on n-type or p-type silicon. A doped region is ultra-shallowly doped with the opposite type dopant to the dopant...
7242069 Thin wafer detectors with improved radiation damage and crosstalk characteristics  
The present invention provides for reduced radiation damage susceptibility, decreased affects of crosstalk, and increased flexibility in application. In one embodiment, the present invention...
7239001 Tunable optical filtering component  
The invention relates to wavelength-selective and tunable optical filters for transmitting the light in a narrow optical spectral band, centered around an adjustable wavelength, and for blocking...
7235831 Light-receiving element and photoelectric conversion device  
In order to reduce the capacitance of a light-receiving element, the present invention provides a light-receiving element which includes a first semiconductor region of the first conductivity type,...
7233049 Solid-state imaging device, method of producing the same, and camera  
The prevent invention is to provide a solid-state imaging device having a electrode configuration applicable to a progressive scan, and able to reduce a obstruction of incident light at the...
7233050 System and method to improve image sensor sensitivity  
A method is disclosed for forming at least one image sensor with improved sensitivity along with at least one transistor device. The method comprises forming at least a portion of the transistor...
7227193 Solid-state image sensor with micro-lenses for preventing shading  
A solid-state image sensor prevents shading while maintaining the wide dynamic range of an image signal without reducing its resolution. The image sensor has its photodiode array including...
7227191 Optoelectronic component having a plurality of current expansion layers and method for producing it  
An optoelectronic component having a semiconductor chip containing a semiconductor layer sequence ( 6 ) with a radiation-emitting active zone ( 4 ), the semiconductor layer sequence ( 6 ) having...
RE39640 Conductive isostructural compounds  
A family of isostructural compounds have been prepared having the general formula A n Pb m Bi n O 2n+m . These compounds possess a NaCl lattice type structure as well as low thermal conductivity...
7214971 Semiconductor light-receiving device  
A semiconductor light-receiving device has a substrate including upper, middle and lower regions in its front side. A p-type layer on the lower region has a top surface including a portion on a...
7205623 Image sensor and method of manufacturing same  
An image sensor includes a photodiode formed in substrate, an insulating interlayer structure formed on the substrate, a metal structure formed in the insulating interlayer structure, a dummy...
7202511 Near-infrared visible light photon counter  
Electromagnetic energy is detected with high efficiency in the spectral range having wavelengths of about 1–2 microns by coupling an absorber layer having high quantum efficiency in the spectral...
7199441 Optical module device driven by a single power supply  
An optical integrated circuit having optical devices is fabricated. These optical devices must be biased in the mutually opposite directions. If such an optical integrated circuit is fabricated...
7196388 Microlens designs for CMOS image sensors  
Described are microlens designs to increase quantum efficiency and improve photonic performance of photosensitive integrated circuit device. A photosensitive integrated circuit made up of...
7193303 Supporting frame for surface-mount diode package  
A supporting frame is used to solidly bridge to the two metallic contacts of a surface mount diode chip. Any bending or twisting stress between the two contacts is borne by the supporting frame...
7193289 Damascene copper wiring image sensor  
An image sensor array and method of fabrication wherein the sensor includes Copper (Cu) metallization levels allowing for incorporation of a thinner interlevel dielectric stack with improved...
7187837 Active manipulation of light in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure  
An arrangement for actively controlling, in two dimensions, the manipulation of light within an SOI-based optical structure utilizes doped regions formed within the SOI layer and a polysilicon...
7187048 Semiconductor light-receiving device  
A semiconductor light-receiving device includes a plurality of first conductive type second semiconductor layers formed on a first surface of a first conductive type semiconductor substrate apart...
7180110 Organic photoelectric conversion element  
The organic photoelectric conversion element according to the invention has enhanced the light-absorbing property by incorporating two or more kinds of electron donating organic materials 4 a and...
7180648 Electro-absorption modulator device and methods for fabricating the same  
An electro-absorption light intensity modulator device is provided that comprises a first and a second layer disposed relative to the first layer so as to provide a light-absorbing optical...
7176544 Red/green pixel with simultaneous exposure and improved MTF  
A pixel for detecting red and green light is a single pixel is described. The pixel comprises a deep N well formed in a P type epitaxial substrate. The pixel comprises a deep N well formed in a P...
7173272 Quantum optical CNOT gate  
A nondeterministic quantum CNOT gate ( 10 ) for photon qubits, with success probability 1/9, uses beamsplitters (B 1 –B 5 ) with selected reflectivities to mix control and target input modes. It...