IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING NANO-PHOTONIC MICROLENS ARRAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240145509A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US18380914

    申请日:2023-10-17

    IPC分类号: H01L27/146 G02B3/00

    CPC分类号: H01L27/14627 G02B3/0006

    摘要: An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a plurality of pixels for sensing incident light, and a nano-photonic microlens array including a plurality of nano-photonic microlenses corresponding respectively to the plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of nano-photonic microlenses includes a plurality of nano-structures that are arranged two-dimensionally to condense incident light onto corresponding pixels, and a gap between two nano-structures that are arranged directly facing each other across a boundary between two adjacent nano-photonic microlenses is greater than an arrangement period of the plurality of nano-structures in each of the plurality of nano-photonic microlenses.

    IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING NANO-PHOTONIC MICROLENS ARRAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240015383A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-11

    申请号:US18216014

    申请日:2023-06-29

    IPC分类号: H04N23/55 G02B3/00

    摘要: An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a plurality of pixels for sensing incident light, and a nano-photonic microlens array arranged to face a light incident surface of the sensor substrate, and including a plurality of nano-photonic microlenses for condensing incident light. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of photosensitive cells that are two-dimensionally arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and are configured to independently sense the incident light, and an isolation for electrically isolating the plurality of photosensitive cells, each of the nano-photonic microlenses includes a plurality of nano-structures that are arranged such that the light transmitting each of the nano-photonic microlenses has a convex phase profile, and the plurality of nano-structures are arranged in the form of a two-dimensional array in a diagonal direction between the first direction and the second direction.

    IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING META PATTERN LAYER HAVING LIGHT RESONANCE FUNCTION

    公开(公告)号:US20230031010A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17841777

    申请日:2022-06-16

    IPC分类号: H01L27/146 G02B1/00

    摘要: Provided is an image sensor including a metasurface having a light resonance function. The image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion layer, an interlayer material layer on the photoelectric conversion layer, and a single meta pattern layer on the interlayer material layer, wherein the meta pattern layer includes a metasurface, the metasurface having a same phase profile as that of a lens, and the meta pattern layer has a height that causes a resonance at a given wavelength of incident light to block transmission of the given wavelength through the meta pattern layer.

    IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING COLOR SEPARATION ELEMENT AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20170092676A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-30

    申请号:US15274502

    申请日:2016-09-23

    IPC分类号: H01L27/146

    摘要: An image sensor includes a first color separation element configured to separate an incident light, the incident light being separated into a mixture of a first color light and a third color light, and separated into a second color light; and a sensor array unit including a plurality of pixels configured to sense the separated incident light, the sensor array including a first pixel region and a second pixel region that are alternately arranged in a first direction and a second direction, the second direction crossing the first direction, wherein a stack of a first light sensing layer configured to sense the first color light and a third light sensing layer configured to sense the third color light is provided in the first pixel region, and a second light sensing layer configured to sense the second color light is provided in the second pixel region.