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Photocathode

US4907051A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 12, 1988
Grant dateMar 6, 1990
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Expiry dateMay 12, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01J2201/3423
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A photocathode with high photoelectric conversion ratio over an extended wavelength range of incident light has a hetero junction formed between thin films of a p-type amorphous silicon alloy having energy gap matching the energy of the incident light and an n-type semiconductor with small work function or large coefficient of secondary electron emission.

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