Owner General Electric Company

Inventors Ahmad, Faisal Razi; Korevaar, Bastiaan Arie; Bray, James William; Metzger, Wyatt Keith

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-A-2011204838

Priority 12/844,931 28.07.10 US

Filing date 19 July 2011

Wipo publication date 16 February 2012

H01L 31/06 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation - characterised by at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier

H01L 31/0224 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation - Electrodes

H01L 31/0256 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation - characterised by the material

H01L 31/0296 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation