US Patent Issued to ESPROS Photonics on Nov. 3 for "Charge transfer device having a taper at the gate for clock frequencies from 100 MHz" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,369, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ESPROS Photonics AG (Sargans, Switzerland).

"Charge transfer device having a taper at the gate for clock frequencies from 100 MHz" was invented by Beat De Coi (Maienfeld, Switzerland) and Chongqi Yu (Bad Ragaz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge transfer device having a charge transfer channel in a semiconductor substrate. A doped conduction layer is provided for movably accepting the charge carriers, and a sequence of at least two electrically isolated gates which adjacently succeed one another for transferring the charge carriers in the conduction layer in a flow direction is p...