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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2004
Hideshi Kuwabara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Yuzurihara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayuki Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Mahito Shinohara, Tokyo, JP;
Hideshi Kuwabara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Yuzurihara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayuki Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Mahito Shinohara, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a photoelectric conversion device having a buried layer in a part of an anode and a cathode of a photodiode, such as a CCD having a sensor structure and a CMOS sensor, well of the same conduction type as the conduction type of the buried layer can be disposed in a peripheral circuit and the potential of each well is independently controlled. In a photoelectric conversion device which is constructed in such a manner that on the whole area of a substrate of a specific conduction type there are disposed a buried layer of a conduction type opposite to the conduction type of the substrate and an epitaxial layer of the same conduction type as the conduction type of the substrate and that well of a conduction type opposite to the conduction type of the substrate are present in a part of the epitaxial layer, buried layer for well isolation of the same conduction type as the conduction type of the substrate which have a higher concentration than the epitaxial layer is disposed between the lower part of the well and the buried layer.