Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photo-detection apparatus including light-shielding film, optically-coupled layer, photodetector, and optical system
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Application No.: US15825041Application Date: 2017-11-28
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Publication No.: US10605586B2Publication Date: 2020-03-31
- Inventor: Seiji Nishiwaki , Kenji Narumi , Yasuhiko Adachi
- 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: JP2016-238794 20161208
- Main IPC: G01B9/02
- IPC: G01B9/02 ; H01L27/146 ; G01J1/04

Abstract:
A photo-detection apparatus includes a light-shielding film, an optically-coupled layer, a photodetector, and an optical system. In the light-shielding film, light-transmitting regions and light-shielding regions are alternately arranged in at least a first direction within a plane. The optically-coupled layer faces the light-shielding film and includes a grating that propagates light in the first direction. The photodetector includes first photo-detection cells and second photo-detection cells arranged on an imaging area. The optical system is disposed between the optically-coupled layer and the photodetector. An image of light transmitted by parts of the optically-coupled layer that face each of the light-transmitting regions and light-shielding regions is enlarged or reduced by the optical system and formed on a corresponding one of the first and second photo-detection cells.
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