Patent ID: 6326654
Filing Date: 2001-12-04
Classification: H01L,Y02E

Abstract:
Periodic table group III-Nitride solar blind ultraviolet photodetector apparatus comprising the combination of:a laterally-elongated group III-Nitride first semiconductor material layer structure;an optically exposed photon reception surface region comprising said laterally-elongated group III-Nitride first semiconductor material layer structure and commencing at a first lateral extremity of said first semiconductor material layer structure;an optically obscured second semiconductor material layer structure charge carrier avalanche multiplication region vertically disposed in a downstream charge carrier location at a second lateral extremity of said first semiconductor material layer structure and on a surface of said first semiconductor material layer structure;first and second charge carrier collection metallic electrode members disposed on a layer of said avalanche multiplication region at said second lateral extremity and on a surface of said first semiconductor material layer structure respectively.