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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yoshiya Moriyama, Osaka, JP;
Hiromasa Fujimoto, Toyama, JP;
Kosaku Saeki, Osaka, JP;
Nobuyoshi Takahashi, Toyama, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a pixel unit formed on the semiconductor substrate; and a peripheral circuit unit formed on the semiconductor substrate, at a periphery of the pixel unit, in which the pixel unit includes: a photoelectric conversion film which converts incident light into charges; and a floating diffusion which holds the charges, the peripheral circuit unit includes a transistor including a gate electrode and two source and drain diffusion regions, and the two source and drain diffusion regions have a higher impurity concentration than an impurity concentration of the floating diffusion.