US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on May 12 for "Electromagnetic wave detector and electromagnetic wave detector array" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,988, issued on May 12, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electromagnetic wave detector and electromagnetic wave detector array" was invented by Masaaki Shimatani (Tokyo), Shimpei Ogawa (Tokyo), Shoichiro Fukushima (Tokyo) and Satoshi Okuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic wave detector includes a semiconductor layer, a two-dimensional material layer, a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion, and a ferroelectric layer. Two-dimensional material layer is electrically connected to semiconductor layer. First electrode portion is electrically connected to two-dimensional material layer....