Imaging element and semiconductor chip
AssigneeSony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
InventorHitoshi Okano
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Abstract
The present technology relates to an imaging element and a semiconductor chip that enable the imaging element to be shorter. A first chip including a photodiode, and a second chip including a circuit configured to process a signal from the photodiode are laminated, and an impurity layer is provided on a second surface opposite to a first surface of the second chip on which the first chip is laminated. The impurity layer is formed to have an impurity concentration higher than an impurity concentration of a semiconductor substrate constituting the second chip. In the present technology, for example, an imaging element that is configured by laminating a plurality of chips and is shorter and smaller can be applied.
Claims15
An imaging element, comprising:
- a first chip including a photodiode;
- and
- a second chip including a circuit configured to process a signal from the photodiode, the first and second chips being laminated,
- wherein an impurity layer is provided on a second surface opposite to a first surface of the second chip on which the first chip is laminated,
- wherein two or more second chips are disposed with respect to the first chip, and
- wherein at least two of the two or more second chips are arranged side by side in a horizontal direction and have different thicknesses.
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