US Patent Issued to WUHAN OPTICAL VALLEY INFORMATION OPTOELECTRONICS INNOVATION CENTER on July 29 for "Photoelectric detector" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,418, issued on July 29, was assigned to WUHAN OPTICAL VALLEY INFORMATION OPTOELECTRONICS INNOVATION CENTER Co. LTD (Hubei, China).

"Photoelectric detector" was invented by Xiao Hu (Wuhan, China), Xi Xiao (Wuhan, China), Lei Wang (Wuhan, China), Daigao Chen (Wuhan, China), Yuguang Zhang (Wuhan, China) and Miaofeng Li (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a photoelectric detector, comprising: a silicon layer (110), the silicon layer (110) comprising a first-doping-type doped region (111); a germanium layer (120) in contact with the silicon layer (110), the germanium layer (120) comprising a second-doping-type doped r...