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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2021
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yoshihiro Sato, Osaka, JP;
Junji Hirase, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device including: a semiconductor substrate; pixels arranged in a first direction; and a signal line that extends in the first direction. Each of the pixels includes: a photoelectric converter that generates signal charge by photoelectric conversion, a region into which the signal charge is input, a first transistor that outputs a signal to the signal line according to an amount of the signal charge input into the region, and a capacity circuit that is coupled to a gate of the first transistor and that includes a first capacitive element, the first capacitive element including a first electrode, a second electrode and a first insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode containing a metal. Further, the signal line is located closer to the semiconductor substrate than the first capacitive element is.