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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a back-illuminated solid-state image sensor which is capable of improving image quality by suppressing image deterioration due to an etalon phenomenon.SOLUTION: The back-illuminated solid-state image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate 4 having a light incident surface on the back side and a plurality of charge transfer electrodes 2 provided on a light detection surface opposite to the light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate 4. A plurality of openings OP for light transmission are formed between adjacent charge transfer electrodes 2. The openings OP are arranged in a staggered manner along a charge transfer direction.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor photodetection element using silicon and having spectral sensitivity characteristics sufficient for the near-infrared wavelength band.SOLUTION: A photodiode PD3 includes an n-type semiconductor substrate 1, and is back-illuminated type. The n-type semiconductor substrate 1 has a first principal surface 1a and a second principal surface 1b facing each other, and a P-type semiconductor region 3 is formed on the first principal surface 1a side. Irregular protrusions and recesses 10 are formed in at least a region facing the P-type semiconductor region 3 in the second principal surface 1b of the n-type semiconductor substrate 1. On the second principal surface 1b of the n-type semiconductor substrate 1, an accumulation layer 11 having an impurity concentration higher than that of the n-type semiconductor substrate 1 is formed. The region in the second principal surface 1b of the n-type semiconductor substrate 1 where the irregular protrusions and recesses 10 are formed is exposed optically.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a back-illuminated solid-state image sensor capable of improving image quality by suppressing image deterioration due to an etalon phenomena. SOLUTION: The back-illuminated solid-state image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate 4 including a light incidence surface at backside, and a charge transfer electrode 2 provided on a light detection surface at a side opposite to the light incidence surface of the semiconductor substrate 4. In the back-illuminated solid-state image sensor, the light detection surface includes an uneven surface, allows light reflected on the uneven surface to have a dispersed phase difference to the phase of incident light, and mutually cancels interference light to suppress the etalon phenomenon, thereby acquiring a high quality image by the back-illuminated solid-state image sensor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical element that can compensate wavelength dispersion of laser beam easier than before. SOLUTION: The optical element 20A is made of a medium having optical transparency, and includes a larger refractive index than air and propagates incident laser beam inside while reflecting it with a wall surface 20a a plurality of times. The optical element includes an incident window 21 disposed at part of the wall surface 20a for making laser beam incident, a projection window 22 disposed at part of the wall surface 20a for projecting the laser beam propagated inside, and wavelength dispersion compensating means 31 and 32 disposed integrally at part of the medium for transmitting or reflecting the laser beam at least twice to compensate wavelength dispersion. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rear irradiation semiconductor energy detector which can transfer charges at high speed and with high efficiency. SOLUTION: Aluminum wiring patterns of low resistance, which have auxiliary wiring (101-103, etc.), in zigzag patterns to help to supply transfer voltage to transfer electrodes, having an applied transfer voltage, and additional wiring (111, 112, 122, and 123, etc.), for the auxiliary supply of transfer voltage, independent of the auxiliary wiring, are made on the surface side of the transfer electrodes of the vertical shift registors of CCD made on the surface side of a substrate, and they are severally connected to corresponding transfer electrodes. Hereby, the charge transfer of at high speed and with high efficiency can be materialized by solving the problem of the wiring resistance in the transfer electrodes made of polycrystalline silicon. Moreover, it becomes possible to enlarge the width of the wiring to more than the width of a pixel with such a wiring pattern.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor energy detector which corrects wavelength-dependent output characteristics by a simple forming method of high yield, and has a high sensitivity over the whole wavelength region. SOLUTION: In a rear incidence type CCD, a full frame transfer type CCD 5 is formed on one surface of a P-type silicon substrate 1, and the other surface is made a light receiving surface. An aluminum film 32 for rear potential which has an incidence window 31 for transmitting a light is deposited on the light receiving surface. The incidence window 31 has an almost trapezoidal form wherein the side for detecting a light in the ultraviolet region is wide, and the side for detecting a light in the near infra-red region is narrow. Thereby the amount of light reaching the light receiving part is adjusted, and spectral sensitivity characteristics of a detector are corrected. By applying a voltage to the aluminum film 32, the potential of the light receiving surface is stabilized, so that measurement of low noise is enabled at a high S/N ratio. Further change of process is little and introduction is easy.
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PURPOSE:To enable an ultraviolet sensor to be lessened in sensitivity to unnecessary ray which is of certain wavelengths and absorbed in an Si substrate, enhanced in sensitivity to ultraviolet ray, and lessened in sensitivity to visible ray to infrared ray by a method wherein a conductive film is provided between an amorphous semiconductor junction diode and a semiconductor substrate. CONSTITUTION:An ITO film 2 is formed on a single crystal Si substrate 1 as a transparent conductive film, and an N-type a-SiC: H film 3, an intrinsic a-SiC: H film 4, and a P-type a-SiC: H film 5 are successively formed for the formation of an amorphous semiconductor diode. Then, an ITO film 6 is formed as a transparent conductive film. The ITO film 2 is large in optical gap and transmissive to visible to infrared ray transmitted through an amorphous semiconductor layer to produce photocarriers inside the semiconductor substrate 1. The ITO film 2 serves to prevent photocarriers from being reflected to an amorphous semiconductor junction so as not to make photocarriers detected as a photocurrent. By this setup, an ultraviolet sensor of this constitution can be enhanced in optical sensitivity to ultraviolet ray.
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PURPOSE:To lessen a trapping level near a photodetective face by a method wherein a thermal oxide film is formed on a silicon substrate, which is etched to form an injection protective film, and a doping process is carried out through the intermediary of the protective film concerned. CONSTITUTION:A thermal oxide film 2 is formed on a P-type silicon substrate 1, a polysilicon film 3 is formed thereon, and the polysilicon film 3 is patterned through a photolithography technique to form a polysilicon mask 31 provided with an opening. Then, the exposed part of the thermal oxide film 2 is etched through the intermediary of the polysilicon 31 until it becomes as thin as tOX, which is made to serve as an injection protective mask 21, and arsenic ions are implanted through the intermediary of the implantation protective film 21 using the polysilicon mask 31 as an implantation mask. An N-type injection layer 5 formed in the P-type silicon substrate as a photodetective section 4 is set as thick as a required thickness of x1 by the control of the implantation energy. By this setup, the interface between the silicon substrate 1 and the implantation protective film 21 is fully shielded from a pollution source and the like, so that a trapping level can be restrained near the surface of a photodiode of this design.