Image sensor device with silicon microstructures and fabrication method thereof

1. An image sensor device, comprising:

a semiconductor substrate having a first pixel region and a second pixel region;

a first photo-conversion device disposed within the first pixel region of the semiconductor substrate to receive a first light source; and

a second photo-conversion device disposed within the second pixel region of the semiconductor substrate to receive a second light source different from the first light source,

wherein the surface of the semiconductor substrate corresponding to the first photo-conversion device and the second photo-conversion device has a first microstructure and a second microstructure, respectively, permitting a reflectivity of the first pixel region with respect to the first light source to be lower than a reflectivity of the second pixel region with respect to the first light source.

2. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first microstructure and the second microstructure permit a reflectivity of the second pixel region with respect to the second light source to be lower than a reflectivity of the first pixel region with respect to the second light source.

3. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first microstructure permits a reflectivity of the first pixel region with respect to the second light source to be equal to the reflectivity of the first pixel region with respect to the first light source.

4. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second microstructure permits a reflectivity of the second pixel region with respect to the second light source to be equal to a reflectivity of the second pixel region with respect to a third light source different from the first and second light sources.

5. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and second microstructures comprise a plurality of islands, respectively, formed of the semiconductor substrate.

6. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein each island is rectangular-shaped from a top view and each island of the first microstructure has a width different from that of each island of the second microstructure.

7. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the first microstructure has an island spacing different from that of the second microstructure.

8. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein each island of the first microstructure has a shape from a top view that is different from that of each island of the second microstructure.

9. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the plurality of islands of the first microstructure has an arrangement that is different from that of the plurality of islands of the second microstructure.

10. The image sensor device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises silicon.

11. A method for fabricating an image sensor device, comprising:

providing a semiconductor substrate having a first pixel region and a second pixel region;

forming a first photo-conversion device within the first pixel region of the semiconductor substrate to receive a first light source; and

forming a second photo-conversion device within the second pixel region of the semiconductor substrate to receive a second light source different from the first light source,

wherein a first microstructure and a second microstructure are formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate corresponding to the first photo-conversion device and the second photo-conversion device, respectively, to permit a reflectivity of the first pixel region with respect to the first light source to be lower than a reflectivity of the second pixel region with respect to the first light source.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the first and second microstructures are formed by performing a lithography process on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and followed by performing an etching process thereon.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the first microstructure and the second microstructure permit a reflectivity of the second pixel region with respect to the second light source to be lower than a reflectivity of the first pixel region with respect to the second light source.

14. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the first microstructure permits a reflectivity of the first pixel region with respect to the second light source to be equal to the reflectivity of the first pixel region with respect to the first light source.

15. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the second microstructure permits a reflectivity of the second pixel region with respect to the second light source to be equal to a reflectivity of the second pixel region with respect to a third light source different from the first and second light sources.

16. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the first and second microstructures comprise a plurality of islands, respectively, formed the semiconductor substrate.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16 , wherein each island is rectangular-shaped from a top view and each island of the first microstructure has a width different from that of each island of the second microstructure.

18. The method as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the first microstructure has an island spacing different from that of the second microstructure.

19. The method as claimed in claim 16 , wherein each island of the first microstructure has a shape from a top view that is different from that of each island of the second microstructure.

20. The method as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the plurality of islands of the first microstructure has an arrangement that is different from that of the plurality of islands of the second microstructure.

21. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises silicon.