US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries Singapore on May 12 for "Photodiode devices, photodetectors, and methods of forming photodiode devices" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,440, issued on May 12, was assigned to GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Photodiode devices, photodetectors, and methods of forming photodiode devices" was invented by Khee Yong Lim (Singapore), Kiok Boone Elgin Quek (Singapore), Kian Ming Tan (Singapore), Wei Sin Phang (Singapore) and Xiaoping Wang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodiode device may include a semiconductor substrate, a multiplication layer disposed in the semiconductor substrate and having a first width, a dielectric layer disposed over the multiplication layer, a charge layer coupled to the multiplication layer and having a second width...