Patent 7977666 was granted and assigned to Academia Sinica on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is disclosed that a device capable of normal incident detection of infrared light to efficiently convert infrared light into electric signals. The device includes a substrate, a first contact layer formed on the substrate, an active layer formed on the first contact layer, a barrier layer formed on the active layer and a second contact layer formed on the barrier layer, wherein the active layer includes multiple quantum dot layers.