US Patent Issued to ATOMERA on May 19 for "Method for making image sensor devices including a superlattice" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,271, issued on May 19, was assigned to ATOMERA Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Method for making image sensor devices including a superlattice" was invented by Hideki Takeuchi (San Jose, Calif.), Yi-Ann Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Nyles Wynn Cody (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making an image sensor device may include forming a pixel region within a semiconductor substrate comprising a first dopant having a first conductivity type, forming a first pinning layer on a surface of the substrate and including a second dopant having a second conductivity type different the first conductivity type, and forming a second ...