Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state image sensor and camera
- Patent Title (中): 固态图像传感器和相机
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Application No.: US13644773Application Date: 2012-10-04
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Publication No.: US08885082B2Publication Date: 2014-11-11
- Inventor: Tomoyuki Noda , Koichiro Iwata , Takeshi Akiyama , Taro Kato , Yoichi Wada
- Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2011-231093 20111020
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335 ; H01L27/146 ; H01L31/0232 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
A solid-state image sensor has a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit including a plurality of pixels, and a charge-voltage converter shared by the plurality of pixels. The sensor includes a structural portion including a plurality of wiring layers, an interlayer insulating film, and light waveguides configured by embedding, in portions of the interlayer insulating film located above the photoelectric converters, a material having a refractive index higher than that of the interlayer insulating film. A dummy pattern is formed in the structural portion to reduce a difference between a sensitivity of a first pixel and that of a second pixel, which is produced by a difference between a structure in a periphery of the light waveguide arranged above the photoelectric converter of the first pixel and that of the second pixel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130100322A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND CAMERA Public/Granted day:2013-04-25
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