Charge coupled device having a back electrode
AssigneeThe University of Liverpool
InventorWilliam Eccleston
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Abstract
A charge coupled device (CCD) is disclosed which has a semiconductor body (20) comprising polymer or oligomer semiconductor material in place of the conventional silicon. A back electrode (22) of the device is electrically coupled to the semi-conductor body through a Schottky junction, reducing the availability of holes in the semiconductor body. Shift electrodes forming a shift register are driven by negative electrical potentials and accumulations of holes in p type semiconductor material represent data.
Claims19
A charge coupled device (CCD) comprising a semiconductor body, a set of storage electrodes separated from the semiconductor body by a dielectric, and a back electrode, wherein the semiconductor body comprises polymer or oligomer material and the back electrode forms a Schottky junction with the semiconductor body by virtue of which the semiconductor body is depleted of majority charge carriers, so that when in use the storage electrodes are charged such as to attract the majority charge carriers, they create storage sites in the semiconductor body which can take either of a first state, in which there is an accumulation of majority charge carriers at the site, and a second state, in which such an accumulation is not present at the site.
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