Methods of fabricating back-illuminated imaging sensors

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8652937
APP PUB NO 20120190150A1
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13418841

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A back-illuminated semiconductor imaging device on a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate is disclosed. The device includes an insulator layer, a semiconductor substrate having an interface with the insulator layer, an epitaxial layer grown on the semiconductor substrate; and one or more imaging components in the epitaxial layer. The semiconductor substrate and the epitaxial layer exhibit a net doping concentration profile having a maximum value at a predetermined distance from the interface which decreases monotonically on both sides of the profile. The doping profile between the interface with the insulation layer and the peak of the doping profile functions as a “dead band” to prevent dark current carriers from penetrating to the front side of the device.

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Alan, Levine Peter West Windsor, US 1 1
Bhaskaran, Mahalingam Lawrenceville, US 14 155
Swain, Pradyumna Gaithersburg, US 5 104

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