US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 23 for "Photodetector with rotated electric field" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,489, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Photodetector with rotated electric field" was invented by Kam Yan Hon (Irvine, Calif.), Fatemeh Rezaeifar Bayat (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Attila Mekis (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Gianlorenzo Masini (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector includes a substrate, an absorber, a first doped region, and a second doped region. The absorber includes a first region and a second region that is more heavily doped than the first region. The first doped region is positioned on the substrate such that the first doped region contacts the second re...