ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,563, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic wave detector includes a first ferroelectric layer, a two-dimensional material layer, a first electrode pair, and a second electrode pair. The first electrode pair includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The second electrode pair includes a third electrode and a fourth electrode. The first electrode pair and the second...