Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Kyoko Izuha

Kouichi Harada

Koji Kadono

Tomoo Mitsunaga

Keisuke Shimizu

Nozomi Kimura

Hayato Wakabayashi

Yoshiaki Kitano

Toshiyuki Kobayashi

Shunichi Shibuki

Hiroaki Ammo

Takashi Sakairi

Naoki Komai

Kenichi Okumura

Tomonori Masuno

Masashi Bando

Shinichiro Izawa

Keiichi Maeda

Yoshiyuki Enomoto

Yasunobu Hitomi

Tatsushiro Hirata

Daisuke Iso

Hiromi Okazaki

Hiromi Wano

A light control deviceincludes a pair of electrodesandand a stacked structure body' of a plurality of light control layerssandwiched by the pair of electrodesand; and each light control layerhas a stacked structure of a first insulating layer, a first nanocarbon filmdoped with an n-type impurity or not doped with an impurity, a second insulating layer, and a second nanocarbon filmdoped with a p-type impurity or not doped with an impurity.

Light control device, imaging element, and imaging device, and light transmittance control method for light control device

The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus comprising an image sensor that includes an imaging surface in which many pixels are arranged vertically and horizontally, a pixel control unit that controls the image sensor, selects a pixel corresponding to a sampling function among pixels configuring a block by applying the sampling function for each block acquired by partitioning the imaging surface of the image sensor into a plurality of blocks, and outputs a sampling signal based on a pixel value of the selected pixel, and a reduced image generating unit that generates a reduced image on the basis of the sampling signal for each block output from the image sensor.

Imaging apparatus which performs compressive sensing reading data for a partitioned block output from an image sensor

An imaging device includes imaging elementsarranged in two-dimensional matrix in a first direction and a second direction, an analog-digital (AD) converter, and a pixel signal reading device. The pixel signal reading deviceselects spatially at random the imaging elementthat outputs a pixel signal to the AD converter, and randomly outputs the pixel signal of the imaging elementfrom the AD converter

Imaging device and pixel signal reading method

A light control device according to the present disclosure includes: stacked M (provided that M&#x2265;1) light control layersM in each of which a first nanocarbon film, a first intermediate layerA, a dielectric material layer, and a second intermediate layerB are stacked; and a second nanocarbon filmformed on the second intermediate layerB included in an M-th light control layerM. A voltage is applied to the first nanocarbon filmand the second nanocarbon film

Light control device with stacked light control layers

Disclosed herein is a capacitive element formed by multilayer wirings, wherein a total capacitance, intralayer capacitance and interlayer capacitance are calculated for a plurality of device structures by changing parameters relating to the multilayer wirings in an integrated circuit, a device structure is identified, from among the plurality of device structures, whose difference in the total capacitance between the device structures is equal to or less than a predetermined level and at least either of whose ratio of the intralayer capacitance to the total capacitance or ratio of the interlayer capacitance to the total capacitance satisfies a predetermined condition, and the parameters of the device structure satisfying the predetermined condition are determined as the parameters of the multilayer wirings.

Designing method of capacitive element in multilayer wirings for integrated circuit devices based on statistical process

There is provided an optical modulator capable of electrically controlling intensity of transmitted light in a desired wavelength range at a high speed and reducing the size of a device containing the optical modulator. The optical modulator includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a dielectric layer provided between the first and second electrodes. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises at least one layer of graphene. There are also provided an imaging device and a display apparatus each containing the optical modulator.

Optical modulator, imaging device and display apparatus including a dielectric layer and an electrode comprising graphene

There are provided a transparent conductive film, as well as a heater, a touch panel, a solar battery, an organic EL device, a liquid crystal device, and an electronic paper that are provided with the transparent conductive film, the transparent conductive film being capable of easing a decline in optical transmittance when graphene is laminated, and of achieving optical transmittance higher than an upper limit of optical transmittance of a single layer of graphene. The transparent conductive film includes a single-layered conductive graphene sheet. The single-layered conductive graphene sheet includes a first region and a second region, the first region being configured of graphene, and the second region being surrounded by the first region and having optical transmittance that is higher than optical transmittance of the first region.

Transparent conductive film, heater, touch panel, solar battery, organic EL device, liquid crystal device, and electronic paper

Provided is an imaging element including: a light receiving elementand a stacked structure bodythat is placed on a light incident side of the light receiving elementand in which a semiconductor layerand a nanocarbon filmto which a prescribed electric potential is applied are stacked from the light receiving element side. The semiconductor layeris made of a wide gap semiconductor with an electron affinity of 3.5 eV or more, or is made of a semiconductor with a band gap of 2.0 eV or more and an electron affinity of 3.5 eV or more.

Imaging element and imaging device

Disclosed herein is a presumably defective portion decision apparatus, including: an arithmetic operation section configured to divide a level difference included in level difference data which indicate a level difference distribution on the surface of a semiconductor device into two or more unit level differences in the depthwise direction of the level difference and determine, for each of the unit level differences obtained by the division, a relationship between the height of a contour line at a level difference position of an upper face and an area of an opening surrounded by the contour line to decide presence or absence of a presumably defective portion.

Presumably defective portion decision apparatus, presumably defective portion decision method, fabrication method for semiconductor device and program

A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate including a light receiving surface which is divided according to pixels arranged in a matrix shape and is formed with a photoelectric converting section; an electrochromic film which is formed on the semiconductor substrate on a light incident path corresponding to the photoelectric converting section, in a portion of pixels selected from the pixels, and has light transmittance changing from a first transmittance to a second transmittance according to voltage applied thereto; a lower electrode which is formed below the electrochromic film; and an upper electrode which is formed above the electrochromic film.

Solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof and electronic apparatus

A solid-state imaging device including pixel photododes on a light-receiving surface of a substrate; a first insulating film on the substrate covering a multilayer wiring on and in contact with the substrate. The first insulating film comprises material of a first refractive index lower than a refractive index of the substrate for at least bottom and top surface portions of the first insulating film. A second insulating film with a second refractive index higher than the first refractive index is on the first insulating film. A third insulating film with a third refractive index higher than the second refractive index is on the second insulating film. For each pixel, a color filter is on the third insulating film.

Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method and designing method thereof, and electronic device

A solid-state image capturing device including: a semiconductor substrate having a photosensitive surface including a matrix of pixels as respective photoelectric converters; and a photochromic film disposed in a light path through which light is applied to each of the photoelectric converters, the photochromic film being made of a photochromic material having a light transmittance variable depending on the intensity of applied light in a predetermined wavelength range; wherein the light transmittance has a half-value period shorter than one frame during which pixel signals generated by the pixels are read from all the pixels.

Solid-state image capturing device and electronic device

A solid-state imaging device includes: a substrate; a photoelectric conversion unit that is formed on the substrate and generates signal charge in correspondence with a light amount of incident light; and a transparent electrode that is formed in an upper portion of the substrate and includes a first area formed from a nano carbon material and a second area that is brought into contact with the first area and has light transmittance higher than that of the first area.

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Kyoko Izuha