Image sensor
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsGwi-Deok Ryan Lee, Taeyon Lee
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Abstract
An image sensor may include a substrate including a plurality of unit pixel regions and having first and second surfaces facing each other. Each of the unit pixel regions may include a plurality of floating diffusion parts spaced apart from each other in the substrate, storage nodes provided in the substrate to be spaced apart from and facing the floating diffusion parts, a transfer gate adjacent to a region between the floating diffusion parts and the storage nodes, and photoelectric conversion parts sequentially stacked on one of the first and second surfaces. Each of the photoelectric conversion parts may include common and pixel electrodes respectively provided on top and bottom surfaces thereof and each pixel electrode may be electrically connected to a corresponding one of the storage nodes.
Claims19
An image sensor, comprising:
- a substrate comprising a plurality of unit pixel regions, the substrate having first and second surfaces facing each other,
- wherein each of the unit pixel regions comprises:
- a plurality of floating diffusion parts spaced apart from each other in the substrate;
- a plurality of storage nodes provided in the substrate and spaced apart from the floating diffusion parts, wherein each of the storage nodes faces a corresponding one of the floating diffusion parts;
- a single transfer gate adjacent to a region between the floating diffusion parts and the storage nodes;
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- a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts sequentially stacked on one of the first and second surfaces, wherein each of the photoelectric conversion parts comprises a common electrode and a pixel electrode,
- the common electrode being provided at a top surface of its photoelectric conversion part,
- the pixel electrode being provided at a bottom surface of its photoelectric conversion part, and electrically connected to a corresponding one of the storage nodes,
- wherein the single transfer gate includes a first portion, which is provided on the first surface of the substrate, and a second portion which is extended from the first portion and is inserted into the substrate, and
- wherein a signal from a first one of the storage nodes to a corresponding a first one of the floating diffusion parts is simultaneously transferred with a signal from a second one of the storage nodes to a corresponding second one of the floating diffusion parts by the single transfer gate in one of the unit pixel regions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.