Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor devices with single-photon avalanche diodes and light scattering structures with different densities
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Application No.: US16948105Application Date: 2020-09-03
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Publication No.: US11652176B2Publication Date: 2023-05-16
- Inventor: Swarnal Borthakur , Marc Allen Sulfridge , Andrew Eugene Perkins
- Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Scottsdale
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Joseph F. Guihan
- Main IPC: H01L27/146
- IPC: H01L27/146 ; H01L31/02 ; H01L31/055 ; H01L31/107 ; H01L31/0232 ; G02B3/06 ; H04N25/63

Abstract:
An imaging device may include single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). To improve the sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio of the SPADs, light scattering structures may be formed in the semiconductor substrate to increase the path length of incident light through the semiconductor substrate. The light scattering structures may include a low-index material formed in trenches in the semiconductor substrate. One or more microlenses may focus light onto the semiconductor substrate. Areas of the semiconductor substrate that receive more light from the microlenses may have a higher density of light scattering structures to optimize light scattering while mitigating dark current.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210175272A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES AND LIGHT SCATTERING STRUCTURES Public/Granted day:2021-06-10
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