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US 4,069,492 AGranted
Electroluminescent semiconductor device having a body of amorphous silicon
AssigneeRCA Corporation
InventorsJacques Isaac Pankove, David Emil Carlson
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Abstract
A PIN or Schottky barrier semiconductor device having a body of amorphous silicon fabricated by a glow discharge is operated under forward bias conditions resulting in the emission of radiation from the device.
Claims14
An electroluminescent semiconductor device comprising:
- a body of amorphous silicon fabricated by a glow discharge, said body having a semiconductor junction either at the surface or in said body;
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- means for forward biasing said body with a voltage so as to generate radiation in said body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.