IMAGE SENSOR CONTROLLING A CONVERSION GAIN, IMAGING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20220224849A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17711809

    申请日:2022-04-01

    Abstract: Provided is an image sensor including a first pixel including a first floating diffusion region and a second floating diffusion region, a second pixel including a first floating diffusion region, a second floating diffusion region, and a third floating diffusion region, a third pixel including a first floating diffusion region and a second floating diffusion region, and a fourth pixel including a first floating diffusion region, a second floating diffusion region, and a third floating diffusion region, wherein the second floating diffusion region of the first pixel and the second floating diffusion region of the second pixel are connected through a first metal line, and wherein the third floating diffusion region of the second pixel and the third floating diffusion region of the third pixel are connected through a second metal.

    IMAGE SENSOR, IMAGING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210144315A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-13

    申请号:US16997234

    申请日:2020-08-19

    Abstract: Provided is an image sensor including a first pixel including a first floating diffusion region and a second floating diffusion region, a second pixel including a first floating diffusion region, a second floating diffusion region, and a third floating diffusion region, a third pixel including a first floating diffusion region and a second floating diffusion region, and a fourth pixel including a first floating diffusion region, a second floating diffusion region, and a third floating diffusion region, wherein the second floating diffusion region of the first pixel and the second floating diffusion region of the second pixel are connected through a first metal line, and wherein the third floating diffusion region of the second pixel and the third floating diffusion region of the third pixel are connected through a second metal.

    IMAGE SENSOR
    4.
    发明公开
    IMAGE SENSOR 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230207583A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-29

    申请号:US17946271

    申请日:2022-09-16

    CPC classification number: H01L27/14607 H04N5/369 H01L27/14645

    Abstract: An image sensor includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels; and a logic circuit acquiring a pixel signal from the plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a photodiode and a pixel circuit region disposed on the photodiode, wherein the pixel array includes a plurality of pixel groups each having four or more pixels, among the plurality of pixels, adjacent to each other in the first direction and the second direction, wherein the pixel circuit region in each of the plurality of pixel groups includes a plurality of transistors, wherein at least one of the plurality of transistors is a driving transistor including a first active region, a second active region, and a gate structure disposed between the first active region and the second active region in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction.

    Pixel array and devices including the same

    公开(公告)号:US12069390B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17984086

    申请日:2022-11-09

    CPC classification number: H04N25/77 H01L27/1463 H04N25/75

    Abstract: A pixel array including pixels arranged in a matrix shape is provided. The pixels have a same structure and are separated from each other by front deep trench isolation (FDTI). A first pixel among the pixels includes a first floating diffusion region, a first group of photoelectric conversion elements, a first group of charge transfer transistors, a first source follower transistor, and a first transistor, a second transistor, and a first reset transistor connected in series between the first floating diffusion region and a voltage supply line. One of the first transistor, the second transistor, and the first reset transistor is formed in a first sub-pixel region. At least another one of the first transistor, the second transistor, and the first reset transistor is formed in a second sub-pixel region. The first sub-pixel region and the second sub-pixel region are separated from each other by the FDTI.

    Image sensors
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11490039B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-01

    申请号:US17470302

    申请日:2021-09-09

    Abstract: An image sensor includes first conductive patterns on a first surface of a substrate, and second conductive patterns between the first conductive patterns and the first surface, in which at least one of the first conductive patterns or the second conductive patterns includes a time constant adjustment pattern and neighboring conductive patterns, in which the time constant adjustment pattern extends in a first direction that is parallel to the first surface and the neighboring conductive patterns extend in the first direction and are most adjacent to the time constant adjustment pattern. The time constant adjustment pattern includes one or more time constant adjustment portions that protrude in a second direction that is parallel to the first surface and is perpendicular to the first direction, and the one or more time constant adjustment portions do not overlap the neighboring conductive patterns in the second direction.

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