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

    CPC classification number: H04N23/55 G02B3/0056 G02B2207/101

    Abstract: 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

    Abstract: 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

    Abstract: 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.

    SPECTRAL FILTER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20250093562A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-20

    申请号:US18812546

    申请日:2024-08-22

    Abstract: A spectral filter includes a first resonance structure and a meta device disposed on the first resonance structure. The meta device includes a plurality of first beam steering regions, in which an incidence angle of an incident light is adjusted differently to be emitted, wherein each first beam steering region of the plurality of first beam steering regions includes a plurality of nanostructures, each nanostructure of the plurality of nanostructures having a shape dimension corresponding to a sub-wavelength of the incident light.

    Optical sensor including planar nano-photonic microlens array and electronic apparatus including the same

    公开(公告)号:US12255259B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-18

    申请号:US17701019

    申请日:2022-03-22

    Abstract: An optical sensor including a planar nano-photonic microlens array and an electronic apparatus including the same are provided. The optical sensor may include: a sensor substrate including a plurality of photosensitive cells for sensing light; a filter layer provided on the sensor substrate; and a planar nano-photonic microlens array provided on the filter layer, and including a plurality of planar nano-photonic microlenses, wherein the plurality of planar nano-photonic microlenses are two-dimensionally arranged in a first direction and a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, and each of the planar nano-photonic microlenses include nano-structures arranged such that the light transmitting through each of the planar nano-photonic microlenses has a phase profile in which a phase change curve is convex in the first direction and the second direction.

    IMAGE SENSOR HAVING NANO-PHOTONIC LENS ARRAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20250022899A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-16

    申请号:US18440696

    申请日:2024-02-13

    Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a plurality of pixels that are two-dimensionally disposed in a first direction and a second direction; and a nano-photonic lens array including a first pixel corresponding region, a second pixel corresponding region, a third pixel corresponding region, and a fourth pixel corresponding region respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels, wherein each of the first to fourth pixel corresponding regions includes a plurality of nano-structures that are arranged to condense light of a first wavelength, light of a second wavelength, and light of a third wavelength respectively onto the plurality of pixels, and in each of the second pixel corresponding region and the fourth pixel corresponding region, cross-sectional area sizes of the plurality of nano-structures are distributed asymmetrically in the first direction, the second direction, and a first diagonal direction, and are distributed symmetrically in a second diagonal direction that crosses the first diagonal direction.

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