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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2018
Tohoku University, Miyagi, JP;
Shigetoshi Sugawa, Miyagi, JP;
Rihito Kuroda, Miyagi, JP;
TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, Miyagi, JP;
Abstract
A light-receiving device that achieves both high saturation performance and high sensitivity performance includes a light-receiving pixel including a light-receiving element, a first capacitive element that accumulates a photoelectric charge produced by light received by the light-receiving element, a second capacitive element that accumulates a transferred portion of an amount of the photoelectric charge accumulated in the capacitive element, a switch means for turning on and off a photoelectric charge transfer operation from the capacitive element to the capacitive element, a resetting switch means for resetting the capacitive element and the capacitive element, a pixel selecting switch means, and a source follower switch means. An effective saturation capacity of the capacitive element is 10 to 5,000 times an effective saturation capacity of the capacitive element.