Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Hiizu Ohtorii

Shuzo Sato

Yutaka Ozawa

Yasuharu Ohkawa

Taiichi Kusano

Hiroshi Horikoshi

Ken Kikuchi

Naoki Komai

Eiji Otani

Yusuke Oyama

Kaori Tai

Takeshi Nogami

Hiroshi Morita

Takahiro Igarashi

Katsuhiro Tomoda

Tomoko Katsuhara

Kei Tsukamoto

Shuichi Oka

Akiyoshi Aoyagi

Shun Mitarai

Kiwamu Adachi

Shingo Takahashi

Kousuke Seki

Hiroyuki Shigeta

Naoki Kakoiyama

Yuto Tanaka

Provided is a semiconductor device capable of maintaining the flatness of a glass substrate and sufficiently protecting an end portion of the glass substrate. The semiconductor device includes a glass substrate including a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a first side surface between the first surface and the second surface. The semiconductor device further includes wirings provided provided on the first and second surfaces, a first insulating film that covers the first surface, a second insulating film that covers the second surface, and a third insulating film that covers the first side surface, the third insulating film being continuous with at least one of the first or second insulating films.

Semiconductor device

The present technology relates to a light source apparatus that makes it possible to provide a widely applicable light source apparatus. A light source apparatus includes a transmissive board that transmits light emitted by a light-emitting element, a circuit board that drives the light-emitting element and is joined to the transmissive board, and a light-emitting board that has the light-emitting element and is connected to the circuit board via a first bump. Further, in the light source apparatus, the circuit board and an organic board are configured to be connected by sandwiching the light-emitting board via second bumps. The present technology can be applied to a light source apparatus that emits light.

Light source apparatus

An optical sensor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a light emitting substrate and a circuit board. The light emitting substrate includes a light emitting device. The circuit board is provided at a position opposing the light emitting device. The circuit board includes a light transmitting section and one or multiple light receiving devices. The light transmitting section transmits light of the light emitting device. The one or multiple light receiving devices receive light reflected by a reflective layer of the light of the light emitting device exiting through the light transmitting section. For example, the one or multiple light receiving devices are formed on a first major surface of the circuit board. For example, the light emitting substrate is disposed at a position opposing a second major surface, of the circuit board, on an opposite side to the first major surface, and is stacked on the circuit board with a first bump interposed therebetween.

Optical sensor and optical sensor module

The present disclosure relates to a ranging device and a ranging module that allow a light emitting element and a light receiving element to be integrated with a simple structure. A light emitting substrate having a light emitting element is connected to a circuit substrate through first bumps, and a light receiving substrate having a single light emitting element or light emitting elements that are two-dimensionally disposed is connected to the circuit substrate through second bumps. The optical axis of a lens, the optical axis of the light emitting element, and the center axis of the light receiving element are disposed on substantially the same axis. The present technique can be applied to a ranging device that carries out ranging, and so forth.

Ranging device and ranging module

Disclosed herein is a display panel including a mounting substrate in which one or more light-emitting devices each including one or more light-emitting elements are mounted on a circuit substrate; and a transparent substrate disposed to face the light-emitting device side of the mounting substrate, wherein the transparent substrate has a transparent base material and a resin layer formed on the mounting substrate side of the transparent base material, and the resin layer is in contact with the light-emitting device and has, formed on an upper surface or a side surface of the light-emitting device, an inclined part which spreads from the light-emitting device side toward the transparent base material side.

Display panel, display device, illumination panel and illumination device, and methods of manufacturing display panel and illumination panel

Disclosed herein is a substrate with chip mounted thereon, including: a solder pattern having a plan-view shape in which projected parts are projected radially from a central part; and a chip fixed in the state of being aligned to the central part of the solder pattern.

Substrate with chips mounted thereon, method of manufacturing substrate with chips mounted thereon, display, and method of manufacturing display

Disclosed herein is a method of transferring elements, including the steps of: holding a plurality of elements made at a first pitch on an element formation substrate on a temporary holding substrate in a state; forming a plurality of element mounting bases and obtaining an element disposition substrate; disposing an uncured adhesive agent layer on each of the bearing surfaces of the element mounting bases; making the temporary holding substrate and the element disposition substrate close to each other and causing some of the plurality of elements to come in contact with the uncured adhesive agent layer; curing the uncured adhesive agent layer, fixing the elements contacting the adhesive agent layer to the element mounting bases; and separating the temporary holding substrate and the element disposition substrate from each other with the elements contacting the adhesive agent layer being left on the respective element mounting bases.

Method of transferring elements, element disposition substrate, device and method of manufacturing the same

An optical-electrical transmission connector having resistance to optical axis misalignment, having small loss, easily increasing the number of buses, and capable of being formed of a commonly-used material is provided. In a male connector, one collimating lens facing the other collimating lens when connecting the male connector to a female connector is arranged, and a light guide is arranged corresponding to the focal point of the one collimating lens. A positioning section is arranged corresponding to surroundings of the one collimating lens, and the positioning section has one inclined surface coming into contact with the other inclined surface when connecting the male connector to the female connector.

Optical-electrical transmission connector, optical-electrical transmission device and electronic device

A photoelectric conversion element array having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (emitting optics, receiving optics) arranged in an array, and the photoelectric conversion elementsare arranged alternately at different positions so that every second one is aligned on the same line in the direction of array. A mounted structure of photoelectric conversion element array, having the emitting optics array and the receiving optics array in the photoelectric conversion element array of this invention, arranged on an interposer substrateso as to oppose therewith, and these arrays are mounted on the interposer substratethrough the external connection terminals. An optical information processing apparatushaving the photoelectric conversion element array of the present invention, and an optical wave guideopposed to the respective optics of the photoelectric conversion element arrays. These configurations not only allow high-density integration of optical interconnects, but also reduce optical interference or crosstalk due to the photoelectric conversion element, and can thereby provide a photoelectric conversion element array allowing efficient propagation of light, an integrated apparatus thereof, a mounted structure of them, and an optical information processing apparatus.

Photo-electric conversion apparatus with alternating photoelectric conversion elements

Disclosed herein is an optical waveguide device including a cladding having first and second surfaces opposite to each other, a core laminated to the first surface of the cladding for guiding light in a longitudinal direction thereof, the core having a pair of light incident and emergent portions at the opposite ends, and a pair of light collimating or focusing members bonded to the second surface of the cladding at the opposite ends corresponding to the light incident and emergent portions of the core.

Optical waveguide device, manufacturing method thereof, optical information processing apparatus, and electronic equipment

A photoelectric transducer has an optical waveguide and a photoelectric transducer element array of photoelectric transducer elements optically coupled to the optical waveguide. The photoelectric transducer element array has a common conductive layer, and the photoelectric transducer elements are mounted on the common conductive layer in alignment with entrance or exit ends of the optical waveguide. The photoelectric transducer elements having respective first poles, and the photoelectric transducer element array has a second pole disposed in opposite relation to the first poles and connected as a reference potential setting electrode through the common conductive layer to at least two of the photoelectric transducer elements.

Photoelectric transducer and photoelectric transducer element array

A polishing method and a polishing apparatus by which excess portions of a metallic filmcan be removed easily and efficiently in planarizing the metallic filmby polishing and which is high in accuracy of polishing, are provided. Also, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device by use of the polishing method and the polishing apparatus is provided. A substrateprovided with the metallic filmand a counter electrodeare disposed oppositely to each other in an electrolytic solution E, an electric current is passed to the metallic filmthrough the electrolytic solution E, and the surface of the metallic filmis polished with a hard pad

Polishing method, polishing apparatus, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

An etching solution includes an anticorrosive for copper or a benzotriazole based anticorrosive in a hydrofluoric acid aqueous solution. An etching method makes use of the etching solution set out above. Moreover, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which should include the step of removing copper by the etching method. The method includes the steps of forming copper through a barrier layer made of a metal or metal compound, which is greater in ionization tendency than copper, so as to bury a wiring groove formed in an insulating film with the copper, followed by polishing additional copper and barrier layer formed on the insulating film, and etching a surface layer of the insulating film by use of the etching solution to remove an insulating defective layer made mainly of the barrier layer on the insulating film along with the surface layer of the insulating film.

Etching solution, etching method and method for manufacturing semiconductor device

Disclosed is a polishing system used for polishing a surface to be polished of an object to be polished by a polishing pad, which is capable of improving uniformity of the surface to be polished of the object to be polished by positively, accurately adjusting a polishing pressure, and a polishing method using the polishing system. Concretely, the surface to be polished of a wafer as the object to be polished is polished by relatively moving, along a plane, a polishing surface of the rotating polishing pad and the surface to be polished of the wafer in slide-contact with each other, and adjusting a pressing force applied from the polishing pad to the wafer in accordance with a polishing pressure previously set depending on a relative-positional relationship between the polishing surface of the polishing pad and the surface to be polished of the wafer.

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Hiizu Ohtorii