US Patent Issued to Wuhan Optical Valley Information Optoelectronics Innovation Center on June 16 for "Laterally structured avalanche photodetector and manufacturing method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,332, issued on June 16, was assigned to Wuhan Optical Valley Information Optoelectronics Innovation Center Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Laterally structured avalanche photodetector and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Xiao Hu (Wuhan, China), Xi Xiao (Wuhan, China), Daigao Chen (Wuhan, China), Lei Wang (Wuhan, China), Yuguang Zhang (Wuhan, China) and Miaofeng Li (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laterally structured avalanche photodetector and a manufacturing method therefor. The laterally structured avalanche photodetector comprises: a substrate, comprising a first semiconductor material region (103), an avala...