Abstract:
The fabrication of two semiconductor structures such as a high speed, optimum sensitivity photodiode and a maximum gainbandwidth transistor on the same wafer is described. A thin, low resistivity layer is formed on a higher resistivity substrate and the diode junction is then formed in one part of the wafer by diffusing the junction-forming region through the layer and down into the substrate. This provides a diode of low capacitance and optimum light sensitivity. The transistor is then formed in another part of the same wafer by first diffusing the basecollector junction into the thin layer followed by a diffusion therein of the emitter-base junction. This diffusion into the layer is very shallow and results in a high gain-bandwidth transistor. The photodiode structure is affected very little by the processing required to form the transistor, thus allowing each structure to be independently optimized.
Abstract:
A hand mixer 30 is formed with a housing 32 and a handle 34 extending in one direction from the housing. A pair of beaters 58 and 60 can be assembled with the hand mixer 30 and rotated by a motor 88 under the control of a sensory actuator 92. A slidable compliant switch pad 44 provides an external facility for an operator to selectively position the sensory actuator 92 to operate the motor 88, and the beaters 58 and 60, at the different speeds. The sensory actuator 92 provides a tactile response to the operator during selection of the different speeds. The hand mixer 30 is provided with a first embodiment of a beater ejection mechanism 192, or a second embodiment of a beater ejection mechanism 242, for facilitating ejection of the beaters 58 and 60 from the hand mixer. A button 52 located externally on top of the housing 32 provides operational access to the operator to initiate the beater ejection process.
Abstract:
Quantum mechanical method and apparatus for detecting and modulating electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range of from about 5 to about 50 Mu . A potential difference (gate voltage) is impressed across a channel formed in a siliconsilicon dioxide MOS assembly. The magnitude of the gate voltage is used to adjust the energy levels of the electrons in the channel and when resonant photons are introduced into the channel there occurs photoresistance along the channel, the magnitude of which is a function of the number of resonant photons entering the channel. The photoresistive effects are the result of the interaction between the quantized electrons in the channel and photons in the radiation introduced into the channel. The device may be voltage-tunable over the wavelength range and may be used as a detector set to sense radiation of a given wavelength or as a multispectral rapid scanning device. When a gate voltage is used to maximize the photoresistive effect for radiation of a given wavelength, the radiation may be amplitude modulated by superimposing a small auxiliary ac gate voltage on the dc gate voltage to periodically reduce the photoresistive effect, thus alternately absorbing and transmitting radiation.
Abstract:
A quadrant photodiode including a flat substrate of high resistivity semiconductor material, such as silicon, of one conductivity type having a thin region of the one conductivity type within and extending across one surface thereof and four quadrant shaped regions of the opposite conductivity type in its other surface. The quadrant shaped regions are arranged in a circle with the straight edges of adjacent quadrants being in closely spaced relation. The surface of the substrate having the one conductivity type region therein is provided with V-shaped grooves which are directly opposed to and extend along the spaces between the edges of the quadrant-shaped regions. The surfaces of the grooves serve to refract the light which is incident on the surface toward the quadrant-shaped regions so as to prevent optical cross-talk between the quadrant-shaped regions.
Abstract:
A solid-state relay utilizing a light-emitting diode to transmit optical energy steadily to a photo-sensitive solid-state device to control the conductivity of solid -state elements. A relatively low power source of AC or DC can be used to operate photo-sensitive uni-junction transistor or a pair of lightactivated silicon-controlled rectifiers.
Abstract:
A controllable semiconductor switch comprises an anode, a cathode and a switchable amorphous semiconductor element interposed between the anode and cathode. The switchable amorphous semiconductor element has a high electrical resistance for substantially blocking current between the anode and cathode, and it, upon the application of a voltage above a threshold voltage value to the anode and cathode of the semiconductor switch, is capable of having at least portions thereof between the anode and cathode substantially instantaneously changed to a low electrical resistance for substantially conducting current between the anode and cathode. The anode or cathode or both may comprise a semiconductor which regulates the threshold voltage value of the semiconductor switch. Where the cathode or anode comprises a semiconductor and the other a metal, the semiconductor switch may be asymmetric in its operation, it having a higher threshold voltage value for one polarity of the voltage applied to the anode or cathode than for the opposite polarity. By controlling the semiconductor anode and/or cathode the threshold voltage value of the semiconductor switch may be varied or regulated to desired values.
Abstract:
This thyristor utilizes the emitter gate heretofore described and claimed in our copending U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 602,837, filed Dec. 19, 1966, and assigned to the assignee of the present invention (now Pat. No. 3,489,962). According to that disclosure, part of an electrode-less auxiliary region in one end layer (the emitter) of A PNPN semiconductor body is exposed to suitable triggering means for turning on the device According to the present improvement, an island of electroconductive material remote from the cathode and separate from the triggering means is disposed on another part of the auxiliary region between said exposed part and a laterally adjacent main region of the emitter, and the other part is connected to the main region in a manner to ensure a high turn-on di/dt capability when the referenced device is triggered by a ''''soft'''' gate drive.