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US 4,063,276 AGranted
Semiconductor photoelectron emission device
AssigneeHamamatsu Terebi Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKatsuo Hara, Minoru Hagino, Tokuzo Sukegawa
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Abstract
Semiconductor photoelectron emission device comprising mixed crystals of two or more different semiconductors forming a heterojunction with direct transition type defining a first region in which may be excited by photoelectrons and an indirect transition type defining a second region whose forbidden band gap is wider than that of the first region and the surface of which is a photoelectron emission surface.
Claims6
A semiconductor photoelectron emission device comprising
- a transparent substrate;
- a first layer of direct transition type semiconductor of p-type GaSb;
- a second layer of Al.sub.x Ga.sub.(l-x)Sb wherein x is a positive number less than one, having high resistance and wide forbidden band on a selected portion of said first layer and defining a heterojunction therewith;
- said first and second layers having similar crystal structures at said junction and small differences in lattice constants;
- a third layer on other selected portions of said first layer and comprising an insulator or high resistance;
- a pair of electrodes disposed on non-covered areas of said first layer;
- a fourth layer of indirect transition type semiconconductor of p-type Al.sub.x Ga(l-x)Sb, wherein x is a positive number less than one, having a narrower forbidden band than said second layer of high impurity concentration on selected portions of said third layer and covering said second layer, said fourth layer having an emissive surface on the opposite side, whereby a transmission type device is formed.
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