Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device
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Application No.: US15446545Application Date: 2017-03-01
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Publication No.: US10341591B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Junji Hirase , Yoshihiro Sato , Yoshinori Takami , Masayuki Takase , Masashi Murakami
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2016-049973 20160314
- Main IPC: H04N5/359
- IPC: H04N5/359 ; H04N5/361 ; H04N5/363 ; H04N5/369 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a semiconductor layer and a pixel cell. The pixel cell includes an impurity region of a first conductivity type, the impurity region located in the semiconductor layer, a photoelectric converter electrically connected to the impurity region and located above the semiconductor layer, a first transistor having a first gate, a first source and a first drain, one of the first source and the first drain electrically connected to the impurity region, a second transistor having a second gate of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, a second source and a second drain, the second transistor including the impurity region as one of the second source and the second drain, the second gate electrically connected to the impurity region, and a third transistor having a third gate, a third source and a third drain, the third gate electrically connected to the photoelectric converter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170264840A1 IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-09-14
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