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公开(公告)号:US12177589B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-24
申请号:US18154770
申请日:2023-01-13
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Bill Phan , Duli Mao , Yuanliang Liu , Heesoo Kang , Yifei Du , Woon Il Choi
Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a photodiode configured to photogenerate image charge in response to incident light. A floating diffusion is coupled to receive the image charge from the photodiode. A transfer transistor is coupled between the photodiode and the floating diffusion. The transfer transistor is configured to transfer the image charge from the photodiode to the floating diffusion. A reset transistor is coupled between a reset voltage and the floating diffusion. A plurality of capacitor-switch pairs is coupled between the reset transistor and a bias voltage source. Each of the plurality of capacitor-switch pairs includes a lateral overflow integration capacitor (LOFIC) and a switch transistor coupled to the LOFIC.
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公开(公告)号:US11750906B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-05
申请号:US17558199
申请日:2021-12-21
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Gang Chen , Yuanwei Zheng , Qin Wang , Cunyu Yang , Guannan Chen , Duli Mao , Dyson H. Tai , Lindsay Alexander Grant
Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate. An array of photodiodes is disposed in the substrate. A plurality of spacers is arranged in a spacer pattern. At least one spacer of the plurality of spacers has an aspect ratio of 18:1 or greater. A buffer layer is disposed between the substrate and the spacer pattern. An array of color filters is disposed in the spacer pattern.
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公开(公告)号:US11245823B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-08
申请号:US16539931
申请日:2019-08-13
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Gang Chen , Yuanwei Zheng , Qin Wang , Cunyu Yang , Guannan Chen , Duli Mao , Dyson H. Tai , Lindsay Alexander Grant
IPC: H04N5/225 , G02B7/00 , G02B5/20 , G02B3/00 , H01L27/146
Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate. An array of photodiodes is disposed in the substrate. A plurality of spacers is arranged in a spacer pattern. At least one spacer of the plurality of spacers has an aspect ratio of 18:1 or greater. A buffer layer is disposed between the substrate and the spacer pattern. An array of color filters is disposed in the spacer pattern.
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公开(公告)号:US11217613B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-04
申请号:US16687660
申请日:2019-11-18
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Bill Phan , Yuanliang Liu , Duli Mao , Seong Yeol Mun , Alireza Bonakdar
IPC: H01L27/146 , H04N5/378
Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate material. The substrate material includes a plurality of photodiodes disposed therein. The plurality of photodiodes includes a plurality of small photodiodes (SPDs) and a plurality of large photodiodes (LPDs) larger than the SPDs. An array of color filters is disposed over the substrate material. A buffer layer is disposed between the substrate material and the array of color filters. A metal pattern is disposed between the color filters in the array of color filters, and between the array of color filters and the buffer layer. An attenuation layer is disposed between the substrate material and the array of color filters. The attenuation layer is above and aligned with the plurality of SPDs and a portion of each of the plurality of LPDs. An edge of the attenuation layer is over one of the plurality of LPDs.
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公开(公告)号:US11211421B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-28
申请号:US16255194
申请日:2019-01-23
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Xianmin Yi , Jingming Yao , Philip Cizdziel , Eric Webster , Duli Mao , Zhiqiang Lin , Jens Landgraf , Keiji Mabuchi , Kevin Johnson , Sohei Manabe , Dyson H. Tai , Lindsay Grant , Boyd Fowler
IPC: G01S17/89 , H01L27/146 , H01L31/107 , H01L31/02 , H01L27/148 , G01S17/10
Abstract: A sensor includes a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor material to receive light and convert the light into charge, and a first floating diffusion coupled to the photodiode to receive the charge. A second floating diffusion is coupled to the photodiode to receive the charge, and a first transfer transistor is coupled to transfer the charge from the photodiode into the first floating diffusion. A second transfer transistor is coupled to transfer the charge from the photodiode into the second floating diffusion, and an inductor is coupled between a first gate terminal of the first transfer transistor and a second gate terminal of the second transfer transistor. The inductor, the first gate terminal, and the second gate terminal form a resonant circuit.
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公开(公告)号:US20210051250A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-18
申请号:US16539931
申请日:2019-08-13
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Gang Chen , Yuanwei Zheng , Qin Wang , Cunyu Yang , Guannan Chen , Duli Mao , Dyson H. Tai , Lindsay Alexander Grant
Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate. An array of photodiodes is disposed in the substrate. A plurality of spacers is arranged in a spacer pattern. At least one spacer of the plurality of spacers has an aspect ratio of 18:1 or greater. A buffer layer is disposed between the substrate and the spacer pattern. An array of color filters is disposed in the spacer pattern.
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公开(公告)号:US20200235158A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-23
申请号:US16255194
申请日:2019-01-23
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Xianmin Yi , Jingming Yao , Philip Cizdziel , Eric Webster , Duli Mao , Zhiqiang Lin , Jens Landgraf , Keiji Mabuchi , Kevin Johnson , Sohei Manabe , Dyson H. Tai , Lindsay Grant , Boyd Fowler
IPC: H01L27/146 , H01L31/107 , H01L31/02 , H01L27/148 , G01S17/10
Abstract: A sensor includes a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor material to receive light and convert the light into charge, and a first floating diffusion coupled to the photodiode to receive the charge. A second floating diffusion is coupled to the photodiode to receive the charge, and a first transfer transistor is coupled to transfer the charge from the photodiode into the first floating diffusion. A second transfer transistor is coupled to transfer the charge from the photodiode into the second floating diffusion, and an inductor is coupled between a first gate terminal of the first transfer transistor and a second gate terminal of the second transfer transistor. The inductor, the first gate terminal, and the second gate terminal form a resonant circuit.
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公开(公告)号:US20190355778A1
公开(公告)日:2019-11-21
申请号:US15984136
申请日:2018-05-18
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Yuanwei Zheng , Gang Chen , Duli Mao , Dyson Tai , Lindsay Grant
IPC: H01L27/146 , H04N5/378 , H04N5/359
Abstract: An image sensor pixel includes a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor material to generate image charge in response to light incident on a backside of the semiconductor material, and a pinning layer disposed in the semiconducting material and coupled to the photodiode. The pixel also includes a vertical overflow drain disposed in the semiconductor material and coupled to the pinning layer such that the pinning layer is disposed between the vertical overflow drain and the photodiode. A floating diffusion disposed in the semiconductor material proximate to the photodiode, and a vertical transfer transistor is disposed in part in the semiconductor material and coupled to the photodiode to transfer the image charge from the photodiode to the floating diffusion in response to a transfer signal applied to the gate terminal of the vertical transfer transistor.
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公开(公告)号:US20190181173A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-13
申请号:US16276561
申请日:2019-02-14
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Yuanwei Zheng , Gang Chen , Duli Mao , Dyson H. Tai , Lequn Liu
IPC: H01L27/146
CPC classification number: H01L27/14625 , H01L27/14605 , H01L27/14621 , H01L27/14643 , H01L27/14685
Abstract: A resonant-filter image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels and a microresonator layer above the pixel array. The microresonator layer includes a plurality of microresonators formed of a first material with an extinction coefficient less than 0.02 at a free-space wavelength of five hundred nanometers. Each of the plurality of pixels may have at least one of the plurality of microresonators at least partially thereabove. The resonant-filter image sensor may further include a layer covering the microresonator layer that has a second refractive index less than a first refractive index, the first refractive index being the refractive index of the first material. Each microresonator may be one of a parallelepiped, a cylinder, a spheroid, and a sphere.
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公开(公告)号:US10312391B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-04
申请号:US15285201
申请日:2016-10-04
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Gang Chen , Duli Mao , Vincent Venezia , Dyson H. Tai , Bowei Zhang
IPC: H01L31/0352 , H01L31/02 , H01L31/107 , H01L31/0224 , H01L27/144
Abstract: An avalanche photodiode has a first diffused region of a first diffusion type overlying at least in part a second diffused region of a second diffusion type; and a first minority carrier sink region disposed within the first diffused region, the first minority carrier sink region of the second diffusion type and electrically connected to the first diffused region. In particular embodiments, the first diffusion type is N-type and the second diffusion type is P-type, and the device is biased so that a depletion zone having avalanche multiplication exists between the first and second diffused regions.
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