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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2024
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Li-Wen Huang, Changhua, TW;
Chung-Liang Cheng, Changhua, TW;
Ping-Hao Lin, Tainan, TW;
Kuo-Cheng Lee, Tainan, TW;
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An electrode controls transmittance of a blocking layer over a photodiode of a pixel sensor (e.g., a photodiode of a small pixel detector) by changing oxidation of a metal material included in the blocking layer. By using the electrode to adjust transmittance of the blocking layer, pixel sensors for different uses and/or products may be produced using a single manufacturing process. As a result, power and processing resources are conserved that otherwise would have been expended in switching manufacturing processes. Additionally, production time is decreased (e.g., by eliminating downtime that would otherwise have been used to reconfigure fabrication machines.
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