US Patent Issued to Aeluma on June 23 for "Monolithic focal plane array circuit and method thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,728, issued on June 23, was assigned to Aeluma Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Monolithic focal plane array circuit and method thereof" was invented by Michael Mcgivney (Goleta, Calif.), Jonathan Klamkin (Goleta, Calif.), Bowen Song (Goleta, Calif.), Bei Shi (Goleta, Calif.) and Simone Tommaso Suran Brunelli (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic focal plane array (FPA) device and method of fabrication. The method can include forming monolithic photodetectors or FPAs by heteroepitaxial growth of III-V PINs, APDs, or other photodetector devices in etched recesses of a Si-based read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) wafer. In ...