US Patent Issued to Vishay Semiconductor on Nov. 3 for "Photodetector with enhanced ultra violet light sensitivity" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,457, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Vishay Semiconductor GmbH (Heilbronn, Germany).

"Photodetector with enhanced ultra violet light sensitivity" was invented by Ardeshir Esteki (Aachen, Germany), Christoph Gebauer (Heilbronn, Germany), Heinrich Gottlob (Nordheim, Germany) and Max Lemme (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector and method of making the same including a semiconductor and a 2D material. The space charge region is located directly at the surface of the semiconductor. A photon with a small wavelength, once it enters the semiconductor, is immediately inside the space charge region in which an elect...