US Patent Issued to SWIR Vision Systems on April 15 for "Colloidal quantum dot photodetectors having thin encapsulation layers thereon and methods of fabricating the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,469, issued on April 15, was assigned to SWIR Vision Systems Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Colloidal quantum dot photodetectors having thin encapsulation layers thereon and methods of fabricating the same" was invented by Ethan J. D. Klem (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Christopher Gregory (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Jeffery Allan Hilton Jr. (Durham, N.C.), Michael Anthony Bond (Morrisville, N.C.) and Katherine Elizabeth Violette (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Colloidal quantum dot devices are provided including an integrated circuit; a colloidal quantum dot structure on the integrated circuit; and an encapsulation layer on the colloidal qu...