Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ihara Hisanori

Yoondong Park

Junemo Koo

Tae Eung Yoon

Sangjun Choi

HyungJin Bae

HoonSang Oh

Sungkwon Hong

In image sensors and methods of manufacturing the same, a substrate has a photoelectric conversion area, a floating diffusion area and a recess between the photoelectric conversion area and the floating diffusion area. A plurality of photodiodes is vertically arranged inside the substrate in the photoelectric conversion area. A transfer transistor is arranged along a surface profile of the substrate having the recess and configured to transfer electric charges generated from the plurality of photodiodes to the floating diffusion area. The transfer transistor includes a gate insulation pattern on a sidewall and a bottom of the recess and on a surface of the substrate around the recess, and a gate conductive pattern including polysilicon doped with impurities and positioned on the gate insulation pattern along the surface profile of the substrate having the recess, wherein a cavity is in an upper surface of the gate conductive pattern.

Image sensors and methods of manufacturing the same

Image sensors

An image sensor includes an active region including a photoelectric conversion region and a floating diffusion region, which are separated from each other, defined by a device isolation region on a semiconductor substrate, and a transfer transistor including a first sub-gate provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and a second sub-gate extending within a recessed portion of the semiconductor substrate on the active region between the photoelectric conversion region and the floating diffusion region, wherein the photoelectric conversion region includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, which vertically overlap each other within the semiconductor substrate and are spaced apart from the recessed portion.

Image sensor

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Ihara Hisanori