US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Nov. 18 for "Sensor element and method for manufacturing sensor element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,216, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Sensor element and method for manufacturing sensor element" was invented by Tadashi Kawazoe (Atsugi, Japan) and Takuya Kadowaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor element includes a first silicon semiconductor portion, a second silicon semiconductor portion, a third silicon semiconductor portion, and a p-n junction. The first silicon semiconductor portion includes a first p-type impurity. The second silicon semiconductor portion is arranged on the first silicon semiconductor portion and includes a second p-type impurity. The third silicon semic...