H10F 71/1212
Consisting of germanium
Official title: {consisting of germanium}
H10F71/1212 (Consisting of germanium) appears on 301 US grants and 362 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 301
- Published applications
- 362
- Assignees
- 116
- Inventors
- 514
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2022 | 9 | 24 |
| 2023 | 24 | 20 |
| 2024 | 17 | 25 |
| 2025 | 16 | 18 |
| 2026 | 6 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical sensing apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,733,289 B2Artilux, Inc.
- Photo detector and manufacturing method thereof16 Jun 2026US 12,660,370 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Current-assisted photonic demodulator including doped modulation and collection regions arranged vertically and located in a compressive zone17 Mar 2026US 12,578,530 B2Commissariat A L' Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
- Photodetectors with a light-absorbing layer at least partially wrapped about a waveguide core17 Feb 2026US 12,557,431 B2GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Doped semiconductor structure for NIR sensors20 Jan 2026US 12,532,554 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Photodetectors for a photonic chip27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255698 A1GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Highly-textured thin films9 Jul 2026US 2026/0198128 A1University of Houston System
- Method of manufacturing a microelectronic device4 Jun 2026US 2026/0156961 A1Commissariat à I' énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
- Photonic chips including a hybrid plasmonic photodetector26 Mar 2026US 2026/0090115 A1GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same5 Feb 2026US 2026/0040724 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Image sensor with microcrystalline germanium photodiode layer178US 7,276,749 B2e-Phocus, Inc. · 2007
- Ge photodetectors101US 6,812,495 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2004
- Method for making semiconductors for solar cells90US 3,993,533 ACarnegie Mellon University · 1976
- Optoelectronic device with germanium photodetector76US 7,790,495 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2010
- Lattice-mismatched semiconductor structures with reduced dislocation defect densities and related methods for device fabrication71US 8,324,660 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd · 2012