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US08154480B2 Photoelectric conversion device and electronic device having the same
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光电转换装置和具有该光电转换装置的电子装置
- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion device and electronic device having the same
- Patent Title (中): 光电转换装置和具有该光电转换装置的电子装置
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Application No.: US12176732Application Date: 2008-07-21
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Publication No.: US08154480B2Publication Date: 2012-04-10
- Inventor: Hideaki Shishido , Atsushi Hirose
- Applicant: Hideaki Shishido , Atsushi Hirose
- Applicant Address: JP Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken
- Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JP2007-193015 20070725; JP2007-193151 20070725
- Main IPC: G01J1/02
- IPC: G01J1/02 ; H01L31/10 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
A plurality of transistors in which ratios of a channel length L to a channel width W, α=W/L, are different from each other is provided in parallel as output side transistors 105a to 105c in a current mirror circuit 101 which amplifies a photocurrent of a photoelectric conversion device and an internal resistor is connected to each of the output side transistors 105a to 105c in series. The sum of currents which flow through the plurality of transistors and the internal resistor is output, whereby a transistor with large amount of α can be driven in a linear range with low illuminance, and a transistor with small amount of α can be driven in a linear range with high illuminance, so that applicable illuminance range of the photoelectric conversion device can be widened.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090027372A1 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2009-01-29
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