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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2020
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Nao Yoshimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric conversion unit in the semiconductor substrate and generates charge corresponding to the amount of received light by photoelectric conversion, a charge holding unit on a side closer to a first surface of the semiconductor substrate than to the photoelectric conversion unit, and holds the charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a charge transfer unit which transfers the charge from the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge holding unit, a vertical electrode in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate, the vertical electrode transmitting the charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge transfer unit, and a first light control member at a position overlapping the vertical electrode when the semiconductor substrate is seen in a plan view from a normal direction of the first surface, and in a pixel region without straddling a boundary between pixels.