Photodiode comprising a resonator structure for increasing absorption

US4665421A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Borner
• Gert Trommer · Munich, DE
• Reinhard Muller · Baden, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 13, 1984
• Grant date: May 12, 1987
• Expiry date: Aug 13, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/52

Abstract

A photodiode having optical resonators tuned different from one another and adjacent one another in a semiconductor body, whereby the resonators are in optical wave-coupling with one another.