Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Making device or circuit responsive to nonelectrical signal – Responsive to electromagnetic radiation
Patent
1998-01-09
1999-11-02
Chaudhuri, Olik
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Making device or circuit responsive to nonelectrical signal
Responsive to electromagnetic radiation
257 59, 438 70, H01L 31036, H01L 7904
Patent
active
059769076
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a solid state imaging device with high photosensitivity. A lens resin coated on the surface of the device is subjected to an exposing treatment using lens masks and a developing treatment, thereby forming lens patterns. After improving the light transmittance of the lens patterns through irradiation of UV, the lens patterns are heated so as to form micro lenses each in the shape of a hemisphere. At this point, the heating temperature is set at a temperature lower than a temperature at which the lens patterns are completely melted. As a result, the lens patterns are prevented from flowing out, and a distance between the adjacent micro lenses becomes equal to a distance between the adjacent lens patterns. Accordingly, by making small the distance between the adjacent lens patterns, the light receiving area of each micro lens can be enlarged.
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Ichikawa Michiyo
Shigeta Yoko
Tsukamoto Akira
Chaudhuri Olik
Coleman William David
Matsushita Electronics Corporation
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