US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 16 for "Systems and methods for hybrid pin PbSe mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) photodetectors" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,361, issued on June 16, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..

"Systems and methods for hybrid pin PbSe mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) photodetectors" was invented by Richard S. Kim (Irvine, Calif.), Jeung Hun Park (Palisades Park, N.J.) and Russell Dahl (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for photodetectors employing a hybrid PIN or PN Lead Selenium (PbSe) junction. In some examples, the PbSe junction can include one or more semiconducting layers, including n-type layers, n+-type layers, p(i)-type layers, and/or p+-type layers, as a list of non-limiting examples. Photodetectors emp...