摘要:
The present invention provides a semiconductor device including a silicon substrate; a heat insulating layer including a silicon oxide film; and a heat detecting portion, in which the heat insulating layer includes a closed cavity and/or a hole, an interior of the hole has a greater diameter than an opening of the hole, and at least a portion of the closed cavity or the hole is formed within the silicon oxide film. The invention also provides a method of manufacturing this semiconductor device.
摘要:
The present invention provides a semiconductor device including a silicon substrate; a heat insulating layer including a silicon oxide film; and a heat detecting portion, in which the heat insulating layer includes a closed cavity and/or a hole, an interior of the hole has a greater diameter than an opening of the hole, and at least a portion of the closed cavity or the hole is formed within the silicon oxide film. The invention also provides a method of manufacturing this semiconductor device.
摘要:
In a MOS type sensor including a floating diffusion (FD) amplifier in each pixel, the number of pulse lines is reduced, so as to improve the numerical aperture. For this purpose, a read pulse for a read transistor of a first pixel and a reset pulse for a reset transistor of a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel in a column direction are supplied through a common gate line; a LOW level potential of a drain line connected to a drain region (a region for supplying a pulse voltage to an FD portion through the reset transistor) of the first pixel is set to a potential higher than a potential depth of a photodiode of the first pixel in resetting the second pixel; and potential below the gate of the reset transistor of the first pixel obtained by applying a LOW level voltage to this gate is set to a potential higher than the LOW level potential of the drain line.
摘要:
The consumed power of a MOS type sensor including a floating diffusion (FD) amplifier in each pixel is reduced. For this purpose, drain regions (regions for supplying a pulse voltage to FD portions through reset transistors) of unit pixels are connected to different drain lines row by row, so as to selectively supply a power pulse to each row. The power pulse is set to a HIGH level potential at least during a period when signal charge stored in the FD portion is reset and a period when the signal charge stored in the FD portion is detected.
摘要:
In a solid-state imaging device, a plurality of vertical charge transfer paths is arranged at a horizontal pitch A within a photoelectric conversion region, and at a pitch B that is smaller than the pitch A in a portion where the signals are input into the horizontal charger transfer path. A read-out amplifier and a horizontal charge transfer path for receiving signals from vertical charge transfer paths are provided for each photoelectric conversion block into which the photoelectric conversion region has been partitioned. The read-out amplifiers have the same shape and their positional relation is one of parallel displacement in regions that are obtained by changing the pitch of the vertical charge transfer portions. Thus, a solid-state imaging device is achieved that is not so easily influenced by mask misalignments or skewed ion implantation angles, and in which signal read-out at high speeds is possible.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging device includes forming a transfer channel portion and a light-receiving portion in a silicon substrate; forming a silicon oxide film on the silicon substrate; forming a silicon nitride film on the silicon oxide film, the silicon nitride film acting as a gate insulating film together with the silicon oxide film above the transfer channel portion and acting as an anti-reflection film above the light-receiving portion; forming a protection film on the silicon nitride film; forming a polysilicon film above the silicon nitride film via the protection film at least above the light-receiving portion; and etching the polysilicon film so as to form a transfer electrode above the transfer channel portion. The etching of the polysilicon film is carried out so that the polysilicon film is removed above the light-receiving portion while the protection portion remains.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide a small solid-state image sensor which realizes significant improvement in sensitivity. The solid-state image sensor of the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate in which photoelectric conversion units are formed, a light-blocking film which is formed above the semiconductor substrate and has apertures formed so as to be positioned above respective photoelectric conversion units, and a high refractive index layer formed in the apertures. Here, each aperture has a smaller aperture width than a maximum wavelength in a wavelength of light in a vacuum converted from a wavelength of the light entering the photoelectric conversion unit through the apertures, and the high refractive index is made of a high refractive index material having a refractive index which allows transmission of light having the maximum wavelength through the aperture.
摘要:
A wavelength separation filter 206 is composed of λ/4 multilayer films 302 to 304 that are sequentially laminated on a multilayer interference filter 301. The multilayer interference filter 301 is composed of two λ/4 multilayer films with a dielectric layer sandwiched therebetween. Also, the multilayer interference filter 301 is composed of parts 301B, 301G, 301R that transmit blue light, green light, and red light, respectively. The multilayer interference filter 301 wavelength-separates visible light. The λ/4 multilayer films 302 to 304 reflect light having a wavelength within wavelength ranges having set-wavelengths of 800 nm, 900 nm, and 1000 nm respectively. In other words, the λ/4 multilayer films 302 to 304 reflect near infrared light.
摘要:
A first semiconductor chip includes a fixed electrode formed on a first semiconductor substrate and a plurality of first metal spacers formed on a first interlayer dielectric. A second semiconductor chip includes a vibrating electrode formed on a second semiconductor substrate and a plurality of second metal spacers formed on a second interlayer dielectric. The first and second semiconductor chips are metallically bonded to each other using the first and second metal spacers. An air gap is formed in a region of the condenser microphone located between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip except bonded regions of the first and second metal spacers.
摘要:
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a substrate; an imaging region which is formed at part of the substrate and in which photoelectric conversion cells including photoelectric conversion sections are arranged in the form of an array; a control-circuit region which is formed at part of the substrate and in which the imaging region is controlled and a signal from the imaging region is outputted; and a copper-containing interconnect layer formed above the substrate and made of a material containing copper. Furthermore, a first anti-diffusion layer and a second anti-diffusion layer are formed, as anti-diffusion layers for preventing the copper from diffusing into each photoelectric conversion section, on the photoelectric conversion section and the copper-containing interconnect layer, respectively.