Optical sensor device and method for manufacturing the optical sensor device

    公开(公告)号:US10594966B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-17

    申请号:US15472367

    申请日:2017-03-29

    发明人: Henning Feick

    摘要: An optical sensor device comprising a conversion region to convert an electromagnetic signal into photo-generated charge carriers is shown. The optical sensor device comprises a read-out node configured to read-out the photo-generated charge carriers and a control electrode which is separated by an isolating material from the conversion region. Furthermore, the optical sensor device comprises a doping region in the semiconductor substrate between the control electrode and the conversion region, wherein the doping region comprises a higher doping concentration compared to a minimum doping concentration of the conversion region, wherein the doping concentration is at least 1000 times higher than the minimum doping concentration of the conversion region and wherein the doping region extends into the semiconductor substrate. Moreover, a projection of the control electrode towards the conversion region overlaps the doping region or is located in the doping region. Embodiments show the optical sensor device as a time-of-flight sensor.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CHARGE PUMP CIRCUIT

    公开(公告)号:US20230029591A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17873742

    申请日:2022-07-26

    IPC分类号: H01L27/02 G05F3/20

    摘要: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes: a first doped region of a first doping type arranged in a first semiconductor layer of a second doping type complementary to the first doping type; an insulation layer formed on top of the first semiconductor layer and adjoining the first doped region; at least two active device regions arranged in a second semiconductor layer formed on top of the insulation layer; and an electrical connection between one of the at least two active device regions and the first doped region. Each of the at least two active device regions is arranged adjacent to the first doped region and separated from the first doped region by the insulation layer.

    Controlling of photo-generated charge carriers

    公开(公告)号:US10707362B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US15881100

    申请日:2018-01-26

    摘要: Embodiments related to controlling of photo-generated charge carriers are described and depicted. At least one embodiment provides a semiconductor substrate comprising a photo-conversion region to convert light into photo-generated charge carriers; a region to accumulate the photo-generated charge carriers; a control electrode structure including a plurality of control electrodes to generate a potential distribution such that the photo-generated carriers are guided towards the region to accumulate the photo-generated charge carriers based on signals applied to the control electrode structure; a non-uniform doping profile in the semiconductor substrate to generate an electric field with vertical field vector components in at least a part of the photo-conversion region.

    Optical sensor device with deep and shallow control electrodes

    公开(公告)号:US10545225B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-28

    申请号:US15783062

    申请日:2017-10-13

    摘要: An optical sensor device configured to detect a time of flight of an electromagnetic signal includes a semiconductor substrate with a conversion region configured to convert at least a portion of the electromagnetic signal into photo-generated charge carriers. A deep control electrode is formed in a trench extending into the semiconductor substrate. The deep control electrode extends deeper into the semiconductor substrate than a shallow control electrode. A control circuit is configured to apply to the deep control electrode and to the shallow control electrode varying potentials having a fixed phase relationship to each other, to generate electric potential distributions in the conversion region, by which the photo-generated charge carriers in the conversion region are directed. The directed photo-generated charge carriers are detected at at least one readout node.

    Optical sensor device and method for operating a time-of-flight sensor

    公开(公告)号:US10455178B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-22

    申请号:US15472340

    申请日:2017-03-29

    发明人: Henning Feick

    摘要: An optical sensor device, which may be a time-of-flight sensor, comprises a pixel array having a plurality of pixels. Moreover, the optical sensor device comprises a read-out node configured to provide photo-generated charge carriers from a first pixel and a second pixel for read-out and a first transfer gate configured to enable a read-out of the first pixel using the read-out node and a second transfer gate to disable a read-out of the second pixel during read-out of the first pixel.

    Semiconductor device, pressure sensor, microphone, and acceleration sensor

    公开(公告)号:US10329140B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-25

    申请号:US15892102

    申请日:2018-02-08

    IPC分类号: B81B3/00 H01L27/00

    摘要: A semiconductor device includes at least one suspension region of a membrane structure, where the suspension region lies laterally in a first region of a surface of a semiconductor substrate; and a membrane region of the membrane structure, where a cavity is arranged vertically between the membrane region and at least one part of the semiconductor substrate, and the first region of the surface of the semiconductor substrate is formed by a surface of a shielding doping region of the semiconductor substrate.