Abstract:
An optoelectronic signal recording and storage medium including a base layer, a conductive layer, a photoconductive layer and storage layer has a coherent crystal morphology throughout, even though the chemical and electrical properties of its layers are by choice dramatically different. The base layer is preferably made of monocrystalline sapphire grown in a manner as to allow the growth of the other layers directly on a surface of the base layer without the need to grind and polish that surface, thereby minimizing internal defects in the medium. The monocrystalline base layer also allows the acceptance of exeptionally uniformly distributed charges over wide areas of the medium, thereby enabling the medium to locally record and store minutely differing optoelectronic signals on a background of minimal noise, thus facilitating low light level electronic or optical recording and long term storage of signals and minimal energy readout of those stored signals. The medium base layer can be thin enough to be flexible and transparent and yet to have great strength to provide a firm foundation for the other medium layers. A method of making the medium is also disclosed.
Abstract:
In the faceplate structure of image pickup tube having an organic coat, an inorganic transparent conductive film and an inorganic photoconductive film sequentially laminated on the central part of a transparent glass base, the inorganic transparent conductive film and the inorganic photoconductive film are formed so that they are non-porous in at least part of their respective sub-layers in the direction of lamination. Further, the transparent conductive film and the photoconductive film have a larger area than that of the organic coat so that they will completely cover the organic coat.
Abstract:
A light-sensitive target for a color television system which includes a transparent carrier plate such as the front plate of a color television camera, having discrete strips of interference filter material disposed thereon. The strips are disposed in parallel relation on the inside surface of the transparent carrier. An intermediate layer is formed over these strips to eliminate abrupt or sharp edges presented by the strip to the inside surface of the tube. A conductive layer is formed over the intermediate layer and finally a light sensitive medium is disposed over the entire inside surface of the system. By means of the intermediate layer, the contour between the light-sensitive and the conductive layers are caused to have generally rounded configurations, thereby eliminating interferences.
Abstract:
High quantum yields of gain photocurrent provided by sandwiching an insulating layer in contact with a photoconductor between two electrodes, applying an electrical potential thereacross, and directing excitation light upon the photoconductor are increased by simultaneously impinging the photoconductor with infrared radiation during exposure to the excitation light where the photoconductor comprises selenium or a selenium alloy. In cyclical operation of gain photocurrent devices having a photoconductive layer comprising selenium or a selenium alloy, fatigue effects are overcome by irradiation with infrared radiation.
Abstract:
A photoelectric transducer element having high photo and spectral sensitivity in which a material with an energy band gap larger than that of a photoelectric transducer film is interposed between the photoelectric transducer film and a transparent conductive film.
Abstract:
A photosensitive charge storage electrode comprises a photoconductive substrate having a bulk region with a surface region of reduced conductivity. On the surface region is a selectively insulating layer of a composition such that the top of the valence band of the layer is essentially at the same energy level as the top of the valence band in the bulk region of the photoconductive substrate.
Abstract:
IN THE FABRICATION OF SILICON DIODE ARRAY TARGETS FOR VIDEO CAMERA TUBES THE INITIAL PN JUNCTION DIODE DIFFUSION HEAT TREATMENTS USING A BORON SOURCE, PRODUCES A P TYPE SHEET RESISTANCE IN THE RANGE OF 10 TO 500 OHMS PER SQUARE. VALUES BELOW THIS RANGE PRODUCE A BORON RICH GLASS WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO REMOVE WITHOUT PRODUCING DEFECTS. VALUES ABOVE THIS RANGE DO NOT PRODUCE SUFFICIENT BORON RICH GLASS TO BE EFFECTIVE IN GETTERING CERTAIN IMPURITIES. THIS DIFFUSION IS FOLLOWED BY TREATMENT AT A TEMPERATURE COMPARABLE TO THE DIFFUSION TEMPERATURE, FOR AN APPRECIABLE PERIOD IN A NITROGEN ATMOSPHERE TO MINIMIZE THE OCCURRENCE OF CERTAIN DEFECTS. THE HEAT TREATMENT OF THE SEMICONDUCOR SLICE MAY, ALTERNATIVELY, TERMINATE WITH A RAPID COOLING OR QUENCHING STEP. FOLLOWING THE SECOND IMPURITY DIFFUSION INTO THE LIGHT SENSITIVE FACE OF THE TARGET AN ANNEALING TREATMENT IS PERFORMED FOR ABOUT ONE HOUR AT A RELATIVELY LOW TEMPERATURE IN A REDUCING ATMOSPHERE, TYPICALLY HYDROGEN, TO MINIMIZE DARK CURRENT.
Abstract:
A photoconductive structure includes first layers of a photoconductive material having one spectral response region and second layers of a different photoconductive material having a different spectral response region laminated one on another either alternately or in a predetermined order at least two times, the thickness of each layer being such that light penetrates therethrough, i.e., less than 2 Mu . Low-resistivity photoconductive materials can be used to provide multilayer structures having a high sensitivity to a predetermined range of wavelengths of light, for example, to the red-light region and a wide spectral region.