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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2021
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Takafumi Takatsuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuki Hizu, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A light receiving element capable of reducing at least either power consumption or a dead time while reducing an input voltage to a readout circuit is proposed. There is provided a light receiving element () including a photon response multiplication part () that includes a charge multiplication region capable of multiplying a charge generated in response to incidence of a photon, a first resistor part () that is connected at one end to one end of the photon response multiplication part and has a resistance value larger than a resistance value of the photon response multiplication part, a second resistor part () that is connected at one end to the other end of the first resistor part, and a readout unit () that is connected to the other end of the first resistor part and reads an output from the photon response multiplication part via the first resistor part.