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Patent No.:

US 8310575 B1

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Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012

Filed:

Apr. 14, 2010
Applicant:

Kimihiko Sato, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kimihiko Sato, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; photoelectric conversion units formed in array on the semiconductor substrate and forming a light receiving unit; and wiring sections formed in positions among the photoelectric conversion units. The wiring sections include wiring bodies formed by superimposing wiring layers on the light receiving unit and including a bottom wiring body on the semiconductor substrate side, a top wiring body on an uppermost side, and an intermediate wiring body between the bottom wiring body and the top wiring body, and contacts connecting the wiring bodies in order of vertical overlap, and in at least one of the wiring sections, the wiring bodies other than the bottom wiring body are superimposed while being shifted from a position right above the bottom wiring body, and amounts of shift of the intermediate wiring body and the contacts connected to the intermediate wiring body are the same.


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