Patent ID: 8691614

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a photosensitive detector unit cell of a detection device, comprising: depositing a separation layer outwardly from an absorber layer, the absorber layer operable to absorb incident photons such that the absorbed photons excite photocurrent comprising first charged carriers and second charged carriers, the second charged carriers having an opposite polarity of the first charged carriers, the separation layer operable to separate the first charged carriers and the second charged carriers; depositing a contact layer outwardly from the separation layer, the contact layer comprising a first contact operable to conduct the first charged carriers from the separation layer; and interconnecting the first contact to an integrated circuit with a direct bond interconnect operable to conduct the first charged carriers to the integrated circuit in order to facilitate image processing; and wherein the contact layer further comprises a second contact and wherein the method further comprises connecting the second contact to ground using a ground interconnect, the ground interconnect operable to conduct the second charged carriers from the unit cell and other unit cells of the detection device.