Photo-sensitive silicon package embedding self-powered electronic system

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PATENT NO 11177246
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16546475

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A self-powered electronic system comprises a first chip of single-crystalline semiconductor embedded in a second chip of single-crystalline semiconductor shaped as a container bordered by ridges. The assembled chips are nested and form an electronic device assembled, in turn, in a slab of weakly p-doped low-grade silicon shaped as a container bordered by ridges. The flat side of the slab includes a heavily n-doped region forming a pn-junction with the p-type bulk. A metal-filled deep silicon via through the p-type ridge connects the n-region with the terminal on the ridge surface as cathode of the photovoltaic cell with the p-region as anode. The voltage across the pn-junction serves as power source of the device.

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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDDALLAS TX

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Grebs, Thomas Eugene Bethlehem, US 18 86
Lopez, Osvaldo Jorge Annandale, US 48 396
Molloy, Simon John Allentown, US 47 604
Noquil, Jonathan Almeria Bethlehem, US 41 116
Schroen, Walter Hans Paul Dallas, US 4 9

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