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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2014
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Mikiko Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Sanghoon Ha, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a transfer gate electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate; a photoelectric conversion unit including an electric charge storage area that is formed from a surface side of the semiconductor substrate in a depth direction, a transfer auxiliary area formed of a second conductive type impurity area that is formed in such a manner as to partially overlap the transfer gate electrode, and a dark current suppression area that is a first dark current suppression area formed in an upper layer of the transfer auxiliary and formed so as to have positional alignment in such a manner that the end portion of the transfer auxiliary area on the transfer gate electrode side is at the same position as the end portion of the transfer auxiliary area; and a signal processing circuit configured to process an output signal output from the solid-state imaging apparatus.