IP Library Granted Patent US 8,546,262
Granted Patent B2
US 8,546,262 · App. 13/523,417 · Granted Oct 1, 2013

Solid-state image pickup device, method of manufacturing the same and electronic apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,546,262
App. No.
13/523,417
Granted
Oct 1, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including: a trench formed in an insulating film above a light-receiving portion; a first waveguide core portion provided on an inner wall side of the trench; a second waveguide core portion filled in the trench via the first waveguide core portion; and a rectangular lens formed of the same material as that of the second waveguide core portion and provided integrally with the second waveguide core portion.

Claims (11)

1. A solid-state image pickup device manufacturing method comprising:

forming a trench in an insulating film formed above a light-receiving portion;

forming a first waveguide core portion on an inner wall side of the trench;

filling the trench with a photosensitive material via the first waveguide core portion; and

forming a second waveguide core portion with the photosensitive material partially left in the trench through exposure and development of the photosensitive material and forming a rectangular lens with the photosensitive material partially rectangularly left above the trench.

2. A solid-state image pickup device manufacturing method comprising:

forming a trench in an insulating film formed above a light-receiving portion;

forming a first waveguide core portion on an inner wall side of the trench;

filling the trench with an organic material via the first waveguide core portion;

coating a photosensitive material on the organic material and exposing and developing the photosensitive material to leave a pattern of the photosensitive material above the trench; and

etching the organic material by use of the pattern of the photosensitive material as a mask to form a second waveguide core portion with the organic material partially left in the trench and to form a rectangular lens with the organic material partially rectangularly left above the trench.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 19, 2016
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
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