IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240243148A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-18

    申请号:US18405539

    申请日:2024-01-05

    CPC classification number: H01L27/14627 H04N25/13

    Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a first pixel and a fourth pixel each detecting green light, a second pixel detecting blue light, and a third pixel detecting red light, and a color separation lens array configured to separate incident light according to wavelengths and condense the incident light onto the first to fourth pixels. The color separation lens array includes first, second, third, and to fourth pixel correspondence regions respectively facing the first to fourth pixels, and the first to fourth pixel correspondence regions respectively include a plurality of first to fourth nanoposts that are arranged in different arrangement patterns in the first to fourth pixel correspondence regions.

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

    公开(公告)号:US20250048766A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-06

    申请号:US18674307

    申请日:2024-05-24

    Abstract: Provided is an image sensor including a sensor substrate including a plurality of pixels configured to sense light, and a nano-photonic lens array configured to separate incident light based on color and condense the separated incident light onto the plurality of pixels, wherein the nano-photonic lens array includes a plurality of supercells two-dimensionally disposed and including first unit patterns and second unit patterns, respectively including a plurality of pixel corresponding regions corresponding to the plurality of pixels, and wherein each of the plurality of pixel corresponding regions includes a plurality of nano-structures configured to separate the incident light based on color and condense the incident light onto the plurality of pixels, and wherein a cross-sectional size or a cross-sectional shape of a first nano-structure is different from a cross-sectional size or a cross-sectional shape of a second nano-structure.

    IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240079430A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18236122

    申请日:2023-08-21

    Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor substrate includes first, second, and third pixels respectively sensing first, second and third wavelengths of light, A color separating lens array changes phase of light of the first, second, and third wavelengths, and condenses the phase-changed light onto the first, second and third pixels, respectively. The color separating lens array includes first to third pixel corresponding regions respectively facing the first to third pixels. The first pixel corresponding region includes a plurality of first nanoposts, the second pixel corresponding region includes a plurality of second nanoposts, and the third pixel corresponding region includes a plurality of third nanoposts, a second center nanopost having a greatest cross-sectional width among the second nanoposts overlaps a center of the second pixel, and a third center nanopost having a greatest cross-sectional width among the third nanoposts does not overlap a center of the third pixel.

    IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING PATTERNED ANTIREFLECTION LAYER AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240063241A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-22

    申请号:US18235547

    申请日:2023-08-18

    CPC classification number: H01L27/14627 H01L27/14645

    Abstract: Provided are an image sensor including a patterned antireflection layer and an electronic apparatus including the image sensor. The image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a plurality of first pixels sensing light having a first wavelength and a plurality of second pixels sensing light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, a nano-photonic lens array including a plurality of nanostructures configured to condense an incident light onto the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels, and an antireflection layer disposed on a light incident surface of the nano-photonic lens array and including a plurality of holes arranged periodically and two-dimensionally, wherein the plurality of holes include a plurality of first holes arranged along a boundary between first and second pixels adjacent to each other and a plurality of second holes disposed to face an inner region of the first pixel or the second pixel.

    IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240250102A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-25

    申请号:US18412026

    申请日:2024-01-12

    CPC classification number: H01L27/14627 H01L27/14645

    Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including first to third pixel groups, and a color separation lens array configured to separate incident light according to wavelengths, multi-condense blue light onto a plurality of continuously arranged first pixels of the first pixel group, multi-condense green light onto the plurality of continuously arranged second pixels of the second pixel group, and multi-condense red light onto the plurality of continuously arranged third pixels of the third pixel group. The color separation lens array includes first to third pixel correspondence regions respectively facing the first to third pixel groups and including a plurality of nanoposts. A blue light phase profile viewed in a cross-section immediately after passing through the first pixel correspondence region includes a plurality of maximum points having positions that are not aligned with a center of the plurality of first pixels.

    IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240230960A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18405938

    申请日:2024-01-05

    CPC classification number: G02B3/0043 H04N23/55 G02B2207/101

    Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a plurality of pixels that detect light, and a nano-optical microlens array arranged on the sensor substrate and including a plurality of nano-optical microlenses that focus incident light on the plurality of pixels, wherein the nano-optical microlens array includes a plurality of lens groups, each of the plurality of lens groups includes first, second, third, and fourth nano-optical microlenses, and each of the first, second, third, and fourth nano-optical microlenses includes a plurality of nanostructures arranged to focus incident light on a corresponding pixel, and centers of the first, second, third, and fourth nano-optical microlenses in each of the plurality of peripheral groups in the plurality of lens groups are offset with respect to a center of the corresponding pixel, and offset distances of at least two of the first, second, third, and fourth nano-optical microlenses are different from each other.

    IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240079429A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18236652

    申请日:2023-08-22

    CPC classification number: H01L27/14625 H01L27/14605 H01L27/14621

    Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a plurality of unit pixel groups each including a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel arranged in a Bayer pattern, and a color separating lens array which separates incident light according to wavelengths and condenses the light on each of the first to fourth pixels, wherein the color separating lens array a plurality of pixel corresponding groups respectively corresponding to the plurality of unit pixel groups, and the plurality of pixel corresponding groups each include first to fourth pixel corresponding regions corresponding to the first to fourth pixels and a plurality of nanoposts. From among the plurality of pixel corresponding groups, relative positional relationships between the nanoposts of the first to fourth pixel corresponding regions in each of the plurality of peripheral groups that are located out of the center of the color separating lens array may be different from each other.

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