Canadian Intellectual Brevet-Patent - Method and Apparatus for Monolithic Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Using Selective Epitaxy (2001)

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Patent Number: 2,225,930
Date of Patent: March, 27, 2001

Inventor: Abhay M. Joshi
Assignee: Discovery Semiconductors, Inc.

ABSTRACT

A monolithic Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit including a photodiode and a CMOS readout circuit is described in which the diode is formed by compositionally graded layers of InxGa1-xAs selectively epitaxially grown between a substrate of Si and an absorption layer of InxGa1-xAs, the areas of said layers being less than 500 µm2 and wherein a readout circuit on said substrate is coupled to said diode.

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