ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,268, issued on May 19, was assigned to Artilux Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Photo-detecting apparatus with low dark current" was invented by Yen-Cheng Lu (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Yun-Chung Na (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photo-detecting apparatus is provided. The photo-detecting apparatus includes a carrier conducting layer having a first surface; an absorption region is doped with a first dopant having a first conductivity type and a first peak doping concentration, wherein the carrier conducting layer is doped with a second dopant having a second conductivity type and a second peak doping concentration, wherein...