Charge Transfer Device Patents (Class 257/215)
- Having a conductive means in direct contact with channel (e.g., non-insulated gate) (Class 257/217)
- High resistivity channel (e.g., accumulation mode) or surface channel (e.g., transfer of signal charge occurs at the surface of the semiconductor) or minority carriers at input (i.e., surface channel input) (Class 257/218)
- Impurity concentration variation (Class 257/219)
- Responsive to non-electrical external signal (e.g., imager) (Class 257/222)
- Channel confinement (Class 257/224)
- Sensor element and charge transfer device are of different materials or on different substrates (e.g., "hybrid") (Class 257/226)
- With specified dopant (e.g., photoionizable, "extrinsic" detectors for infrared) (Class 257/227)
- Light responsive, back illuminated (Class 257/228)
- Having structure to improve output signal (e.g., exposure control structure) (Class 257/229)
- 2-dimensional area architecture (Class 257/231)
- Single strip of sensors (e.g., linear imager) (Class 257/234)