Invention Application
- Patent Title: IMAGING DEVICE
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Application No.: US15719456Application Date: 2017-09-28
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Publication No.: US20180020171A1Publication Date: 2018-01-18
- Inventor: YASUO MIYAKE , MASASHI MURAKAMI , TOKUHIKO TAMAKI , YOSHIAKI SATOU
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Priority: JP2015-236858 20151203
- Main IPC: H04N5/353
- IPC: H04N5/353 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/369

Abstract:
An imaging device includes: unit pixel cells each including first and second electrodes, a photoelectric conversion layer therebetween, a charge accumulation region, and a signal detection circuit; and a voltage supply circuit, the voltage supply circuit supplying a first voltage to the second electrode in an exposure period. The start and end of the exposure period is common to the unit pixel cells. The photoelectric conversion layer has a photocurrent characteristic including first to third voltage ranges. In the third voltage range between the first and second voltage ranges, an absolute value of a rate of change of a current density relative to a bias voltage is less than in the first and second voltage ranges. The voltage supply circuit supplies a second voltage to the second electrode in a non-exposure period such that the bias voltage applied to the photoelectric conversion layer falls within the third voltage range.
Public/Granted literature
- US09986182B2 Imaging device Public/Granted day:2018-05-29
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