US Patent Issued to Intel on May 13 for "Germanium waveguide photodetector with integrated heater" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,560, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Germanium waveguide photodetector with integrated heater" was invented by Olufemi I. Dosunmu (San Jose, Calif.), Zhi Li (San Jose, Calif.), Mengyuan Huang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Aliasghar Eftekhar (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a substrate, an oxide layer on the substrate, a silicon layer on the oxide layer, which includes a waveguide region and etched regions adjacent to the waveguide region, a germanium layer on the silicon layer and adjacent the waveguide region of the silicon layer, and a resistive...