EP2207204A3

Solid-state image pickup element and driving method thereof

Abstract

A solid-state image pickup element includes: (A) a light receiving/charge accumulating region (120) formed in a semiconductor layer (11) and formed by laminating M (where M ≥ 2) light receiving/charge accumulating layers (121,122,123); (B) a charge outputting region (140) formed in the semiconductor layer (11); (C) a depletion layer forming region (150) formed of a part of the semiconductor layer (11), the part of the semiconductor layer (11) being situated between the light receiving/charge accumulating region (120) and the charge outputting region (140); and (D) a control electrode region (160) for controlling a state of formation of a depletion layer in the depletion layer forming region (150), wherein the solid-state image pickup element further includes light receiving/charge accumulating layer extending section (121A,122A,123A) extending from each light receiving/charge accumulating layer (121,122,123) to the depletion layer forming region (150).

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US2007102740A1	Cites	United States of America	X	Search report	1-3,11
US2007131987A1	Cites	United States of America	X	Search report	1-3,7,11,12
US2007148808A1	Cites	United States of America	X	Search report	1-3,11
US2008296641A1	Cites	United States of America	X	Search report	1-3,11
EP2133918A2	Cites	European Patent Office (EPO)	XP	Search report	1-3,7,11
JPH10284714A	Cites	Japan	X	Search report	1-3,11,12

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2009003164	Japan	A	2009-01-09
2009003164	Japan	A	2009-01-09
2009003164	Japan	–	2009-01-09
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EP2207204A2	European Patent Office (EPO)	A2	2010-07-14
US2010176277A1	United States of America	A1	2010-07-15
KR20100082715A	Republic of Korea	A	2010-07-19
JP2010161254A	Japan	A	2010-07-22
CN101794796A	China	A	2010-08-04
TW201034175A	Taiwan Province of China	A	2010-09-16
EP2207204A3This record	European Patent Office (EPO)	A3	2012-03-14
JP4905468B2	Japan	B2	2012-03-28
CN101794796B	China	B	2012-11-14
US8362412B2	United States of America	B2	2013-01-29
TWI427778B	Taiwan Province of China	B	2014-02-21
EP2207204B1	European Patent Office (EPO)	B1	2015-09-09
KR101660980B1	Republic of Korea	B1	2016-09-29

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Solid-state image pickup element and driving method thereof

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