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US 10,950,641 B2Granted
Image sensor and electronic device including the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYong Wan Jin, Gae Hwang Lee, Seon-Jeong Lim, Sung Young Yun, Kwang Hee Lee
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Abstract
An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photo-sensing devices, a photoelectric conversion device disposed on the semiconductor substrate and absorbing the mixed light of a first color and a second color, and a color filter disposed on one side of the photoelectric conversion device and configured to selectively transmit a mixed light including a third color, and an electronic device including the image sensor is provided.
Claims10
An image sensor comprising:
- a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photo-sensing devices,
- a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices on the semiconductor substrate, the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices comprising a first photoelectric conversion device configured to absorb light of a first color or a second color, and
- a color filter layer including at least a color filter, the color filter layer overlapping the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices and configured to transmit at least a third color, the color filter layer being closer to an incident of light than the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices,
- wherein the color filter comprises a first color filter overlapping the first photoelectric conversion device configured to selectively transmit a combination of the first color and the third color, or a second color filter overlapping the first photoelectric conversion device configured to selectively transmit a combination of the second color and the third color, and
- the first color, the second color and the third color being different from one another,
- wherein the color filter layer further comprises a third color filter configured to transmit a combination of the first color, the second color, and the third color, the first color filter or the second color filter and the third color filter are alternately located along at least one of at least one row and at least one column, and
- wherein the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices further comprises a second photoelectric conversion device overlapping the third color filter and configured to convert the combination of the first color and the second color.
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An image sensor comprising:
- a color filter layer including color filters configured to transmit light,
- a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices overlapping the color filter layer including the color filters and configured to absorb at least a portion of the light transmitting through the color filter layer including the color filters, the at least a portion of the light including light of a first color or a second color, and
- a plurality of photo-sensing devices overlapping the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices and configured to sense light of a third color, the light of the third color being light transmitting through the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices, wherein the first color, the second color and the third color being different from one another,
- wherein the color filters include:
- a first color filter configured to selectively transmit a combination of the first color and the third color, or
- a second color filter configured to selectively transmit a combination of the second color and the third color;
- wherein the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices includes,
- a first photoelectric conversion device overlapping the first color filter or the second color filter and configured to selectively absorb light of the first color or the second color;
- and
- a second photoelectric conversion device not overlapping the first color filter or the second color filter and configured to selectively absorb the combination of the first color and the second color.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.