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Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2023
Applicant:

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Shunsuke Maruyama, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshiaki Inada, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 25/46 (2023.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 25/76 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 25/46 (2023.01); H01L 27/14607 (2013.01); H04N 25/76 (2023.01);
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device including a photoelectric conversion film provided over a plurality of pixels, a first electrode electrically coupled to the photoelectric conversion film and provided to each pixel, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, the photoelectric conversion film being interposed between the second electrode and the first electrode, a first electric charge accumulation section, a reset transistor that is provided to each pixel, and an electric potential generator that applies, during a period in which the signal electric charges are accumulated in the first electric charge accumulation section, an electric potential VPD to the first electrode of each of at least one or more pixels, an electric potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode when the electric potential VPD is applied to the first electrode being smaller than an electric potential difference when a reset electric potential is applied to the first electrode.


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