Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Incoherent light emitter structure – In combination with or also constituting light responsive...
Patent
1994-09-27
1995-09-05
Mintel, William
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Incoherent light emitter structure
In combination with or also constituting light responsive...
257 94, 257101, 257185, 257191, H01L 3300, H01L 3112
Patent
active
054480825
ABSTRACT:
An infrared LED can function efficiently as both an emitter and a detector at a common wavelength without undesirable characteristics found in avalanche diodes. The LED comprises a graded-bandgap Ga.sub.1-x Al.sub.x As semiconductor material with two semiconductive regions that form a p-n junction. The value of x (the amount of aluminum in the semiconductive material Ga.sub.1-x Al.sub.x As) is varied monotonically as the material is grown so that x decreases monotonically from a value greater than 0.08 at the diode surface on the N side of the p-n junction to a value not less than zero at the diode surface on the P side of the junction. The value of x at the p-n junction is greater than 0 and less than 0.08 as a result of a high initial growth temperature of at least about 930 degrees Celsius. A wavelength matched emitter and detector system is realized by adjusting the present diode's initial growth temperature so that its detector response curve substantially overlaps the emission curve of a second diode.
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Mintel William
Opto Diode Corporation
Tran Minhloan
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