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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Yoichi Ootsuka, Kumamoto, JP;
Tomoyuki Yamashita, Kumamoto, JP;
Kiyotaka Tabuchi, Kumamoto, JP;
Yoshinori Toumiya, Kumamoto, JP;
Akiko Ogino, Kumamoto, JP;
Yoichi Ootsuka, Kumamoto, JP;
Tomoyuki Yamashita, Kumamoto, JP;
Kiyotaka Tabuchi, Kumamoto, JP;
Yoshinori Toumiya, Kumamoto, JP;
Akiko Ogino, Kumamoto, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device with microlenses having a first lens layer and a second lens layer, the second lens layer being formed at least at a periphery of each microlens with either a portion of the second lens layer present at a central portion of each of the microlenses being thinner than a portion of the second lens layer present at the periphery of the microlens or no portion of the second lens layer being present at the central portion of each of the first microlenses. Between first pixel portions there is an interpixel gap, and the solid-state imaging device includes light blocking layers in alignment with the gaps.