ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,027, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EPISTAR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor photo-detecting device" was invented by Chu-Jih Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Hsiang Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Chih Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wen-Luh Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chao-Shun Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsuan-Le Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Chang Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Mei Chun Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chen Ou (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photo-detecting device includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer located on the first semiconductor layer, a light-absorbing layer located between the first semico...