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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7095060 | Unit for driving light-emitting device A unit according to the present invention includes a substrate and an IC chip used for driving a light-emitting device. A relay terminal is provided at a region spaced from peripheral areas of the substrate so as to connect the light-emitting device with the IC chip... | 08/22/2006 |
| 5811322 | Method of making a broadband backside illuminated MESFET with collecting microlens A composite-layer semiconductor device includes a gate above a host substrate, an n++ contact layer above the gate, and source and drain ohmic contacts applied to the n++ contact layer. The source and drain ohmic contacts define a central gate location wh... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5804847 | Backside illuminated FET optical receiver with gallium arsenide species A photo FET device having a large area backside optical energy reception surface is disclosed. The photo FET device is fabricated in the source gate and drain upward configuration and then inverted onto a new permanent substrate member and an original sur... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5739561 | Light sensitive semiconductor device and method of operation A light sensitive semiconductor device (10) is formed in a well region (12) in a semiconductor substrate (11). A first voltage (30) is applied to a source region (4) of the semiconductor device (10) and to a contact region (13) to the well region (12) to ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5686756 | Compound field effect transistor having a conductive layer comprising a III-V group compound A compound semiconductor field effect transistor has a semiconductive layer made of a compound which consists of a single III group element and a single V group element or a compound which consists of two III group elements and a single V group element in... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5633512 | Semiconductor device for varying the mobility of electrons by light irradiation A semiconductor device in which a current is controlled by light includes a semiconductor member having a source unit and a drain unit and a channel unit through which electrons may flow between the source unit and the drain unit. The channel unit has a q... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5608255 | FET optical receiver using backside illumination, indium materials species A photo FET device having a large area backside optical energy reception surface is disclosed. The photo FET device is fabricated in the source gate and drain upward configuration using a lattice determining surrogate substrate and a mesa-forming deep etc... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5567973 | Optical field-effect transistor with improved sensitivity An FET or MESFET having a semiconductor optically transparent gate. A substrate having a doped channel placed thereon together with a source and a drain with a semiconductor gate formed therebetween may be manufactured using conventional semiconductor man... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5536954 | Optically coupled MESFET An optically coupled FET comprised of bottom layer, a top layer in which FET is formed and an intermediate layer having a waveguide communicating with a grating in registration with the FET.... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5532173 | FET optical receiver using backside illumination, indium materials species A photo FET device having a large area backside optical energy reception surface is disclosed. The photo FET device is fabricated in the source gate and drain upward configuration using a lattice determining surrogate substrate and a mesa-forming deep etc... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5453630 | Variable gain optical detector An optical detector comprised of a MESFET having a larger than usual separation between its source and drain electrodes and a channel between the source and drain electrodes doped with carriers having a density of at least 1018 /cm3 ... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5329137 | Integrated total internal reflection optical switch utilizing charge storage in a quantum well An optical switch comprises a heterojunction transistor having a source electrode, a gate, a mesa, and three self-aligned waveguides, the mesa being ion implanted and having a single quantum well under the gate electrode, the single quantum well being com... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5298739 | Photodetector capable of sweeping out unwanted carriers and an optical communication system including the same A light absorbing layer is formed in a photodetector that receives and detects light guided therein. Carriers are generated in the light absorbing layer in response to the guided light. Unwanted carriers likely to be generated in regions other than the li... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5285514 | Waveguide type photodetector and a method of fabricating the same In a waveguide type photodetector for receiving and detecting a light guided thereinto, a groove is formed in a semiconductor substrate, a waveguide layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a light absorbing layer for absorbing a light propagat... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5196717 | Field effect transistor type photo-detector A field effect type photo-detector comprises a semiconductor buffer layer arranged on a substrate. A semiconductor activation layer is arranged on that buffer layer, and a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode are arranged on the activa... | 03/23/1993 |
| 4970386 | Vertical FET high speed optical sensor A high speed optical sensor comprising a parallel array of vertical field effect transistors and optical fibers disposed in the recesses between the transistors is disclosed herein. Each of the vertical field effect transistors includes a substrate of dop... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4872744 | Single quantum well optical modulator High speed optoelectronic devices which are suitable for use in an optical integrated circuit design. The devices comprise a monolithic planar structure wherein exciton-resonant light propagates along a single mode waveguide containing a single quantum we... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4821093 | Dual channel high electron mobility field effect transistor A multi-terminal Group III-V semiconductor high electron mobility field effect transistor comprised of a sandwich of molecular beam epitaxially grown layers and including two high mobility charge flow channels in respective two dimensional electron gas re... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4739385 | Modulation-doped photodetector A modulation-doped field effect photodetector has a fast response time.... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4618024 | Moving seismic source system for use in water-covered areas A moving seismic source system for the use in water-covered areas comprising a conventional source and streamer cable means with multiple receiver, and additionally includes between the source and receivers a volume of the body of water containing a small... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4416053 | Method of fabricating gallium arsenide burris FET structure for optical detection A GaAs FET structure with a high electric field region, or active region, contacted by source, gate and drain electrodes is provided which can be used for high speed optical detection or for microwave oscillator optical injection locking. The device provi... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4346394 | Gallium arsenide burrus FET structure for optical detection A GaAs FET structure with a high electric field region, or active region, contacted by source, gate and drain electrodes is provided which can be used for high speed optical detection or for microwave oscillator optical injection locking. The device provi... | 08/24/1982 |