Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Photoelectric – Panel or array
Patent
1984-11-05
1986-11-25
Weisstuch, Aaron
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Photoelectric
Panel or array
357 15, 357 30, H01L 3106
Patent
active
046250719
ABSTRACT:
A semiconductor device in which particles of semiconductive material extend as separate chains from respective first and second contacts. When one of the contacts is of p-type material, the conductive materials that extend from it are of likewise p-material. Similarly, when the contact is of n-type material, the chain that extends from it is also of n-material. In any case the particles can include both p-type and n-type. One of the contacts can have a prescribed work function and the other contact have a lower work function in order to produce a prescribed junction between the two contacts. In addition the contacts may be polymeric. The particulate bodies may range in size from 10 to about 3000 angstroms in diameter. The n-type particles provide a continuous path for electrons and the p-type particles provide a continuous path for holes. The particles are adhered to one another by an inorganic or organic binder, pressure, heat treatment or thermal fusion. Particles for the semiconductive device can be produced by introducing a gaseous phase semiconductane into a reaction chamber, creating particles from the semiconductane and collecting the particles thus created.
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Delahoy Alan E.
Ellis, Jr. Frank B.
Rose Albert
Chronar Corp.
Kersey George E.
Weisstuch Aaron
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