US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on May 13 for "Barrier infrared detector architecture for focal plane arrays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,712, issued on May 13, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Barrier infrared detector architecture for focal plane arrays" was invented by David Z. Ting (Arcadia, Calif.), Sam A. Keo (Pasadena, Calif.), Arezou Khoshakhlagh (Pasadena, Calif.), Alexander Soibel (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Sarath D. Gunapala (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an infrared detector. The detector includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes an n-type semiconductor top contact layer, a p-type semiconductor layer electrically connected to the n-type top contact layer to form ...