Image sensor structure and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12433042-B2
Application number	US-202217861276-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 11, 2022
Priority date	May 31, 2022
Publication date	Sep 30, 2025
Grant date	Sep 30, 2025

Abstract

An image sensor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; an interconnection layer on the semiconductor substrate; nano-pillar structures, each including a first doped layer, a second doped layer and a third doped layer stacked in sequence; conductive structures, respectively electrically connected to the first doped layer and the interconnection layer, the second doped layer and the interconnection layer, and the third doped layer and the interconnection layer; a first insulating layer on the interconnection layer and wrapping the nano-pillar structures and the conductive structures, wherein the first doping layer is exposed on the first insulating layer; a transparent barrier layer on the first insulating layer; and a photoelectric thin film structure on the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the interconnection layer. The photoelectric thin film structure includes photoconductive film portions. The image sensor structure has a good isolation effect between adjacent pixels and effectively avoids optical crosstalk.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image sensor structure, comprising:
a semiconductor substrate;
at least one interconnection layer, disposed on the semiconductor substrate;
a plurality of nano-pillar structures, wherein each of the nano-pillar structures comprises a first doped layer, a second doped layer and a third doped layer stacked in sequence, the third doped layer is adjacent to the at least one interconnection layer, and the first doped layer is away from the at least one interconnection layer;
a plurality of first conductive structures, wherein each of the first conductive structures is electrically connected to the first doped layer and the at least one interconnection layer;
a plurality of second conductive structures, wherein each of the second conductive structures is electrically connected to the second doped layer and the at least one interconnection layer;
a plurality of third conductive structures, wherein each of the third conductive structures is electrically connected to the third doped layer and the at least one interconnection layer;
a first insulating layer, formed on the at least one interconnection layer to wrap the nano-pillar structures, the first conductive structures, the second conductive structures and the third conductive structures, wherein the first doped layer of each of the nano-pillar structures is exposed on the first insulating layer;
a transparent barrier layer, formed on the first insulating layer to cover the exposed first doped layer; and
an optoelectronic thin film structure, disposed on the transparent barrier layer and electrically connected to the at least one interconnection layer, wherein the optoelectronic thin film structure comprises a plurality of photoconductive film portions corresponding to the nano-pillar structures respectively.

2. The image sensor structure according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first conductive structures comprises a first doped layer electrode and a first conductive plug, the first doped layer electrode surrounds and is connected to a sidewall of the first doped layer, and the first conductive plug penetrates through the first insulating layer and is electrically connected to the first doped layer electrode and the at least one interconnection layer.

3. The image sensor structure according to claim 1 , wherein each of the second conductive structures comprises a second doped layer electrode and a second conductive plug, the second doped layer electrode surrounds and is connected to a sidewall of the second doped layer, and the second conductive plug penetrates through the first insulating layer and is electrically connected to the second doped layer electrode and the at least one interconnection layer.

4. The image sensor structure according to claim 1 , wherein each of the third conductive structures comprises a third conductive plug penetrating through the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the third doped layer and the at least one interconnection layer.

5. The image sensor structure according to claim 1 , wherein the first doped layer and the second doped layer form a blue light image sensor, the second doped layer and the third doped layer form a red light image sensor, and the photoelectric thin film structure is a green light image sensor.

6. The image sensor structure according to claim 1 , wherein the first doped layer and the third doped layer have a same first doping type, the second doped layer has a second doping type, and the second doping type is different from the first doping type.

7. The image sensor structure according to claim 1 , wherein each of the photoconductive film portions comprises a conductive pillar and a first transparent electrode, a hole transport portion, an absorbing material portion, an electron transfer portion, and a second transparent electrode stacked in sequence, the conductive pillar penetrates through the transparent barrier layer and the first insulating layer, a first end of the conductive pillar is electrically connected to the at least one interconnection layer, and a second end of the conductive pillar is electrically connected to the first transparent electrode.

8. The image sensor structure according to claim 7 , wherein the photoelectric thin film structure is a green light image sensor, and the absorbing material portion comprises perovskite or organic photoelectric material.

9. The image sensor structure according to claim 1 , wherein the photoelectric thin film structure further comprises a second insulating layer and a transparent package, the second insulating layer is disposed on the transparent barrier layer and filled between the photoconductive film portions, and the transparent package wraps the second insulating layer and the photoconductive film portions.

10. The image sensor structure according to claim 1 , wherein the transparent barrier layer is an oxide layer.

11. A manufacturing method of an image sensor structure, comprising:
forming a semiconductor stack structure, wherein the semiconductor stack structure comprises a first doped material layer, a second doped material layer and a third doped material layer stacked in sequence, the first doped material layer comprises a first portion and a second portion, the second portion is located on the first portion and is between the second doped material layer and the first portion;
forming a mask layer on the semiconductor stack structure, patterning the mask layer and the semiconductor stack structure, forming a plurality of first trenches penetrating through the mask layer, the third doped material layer, the second doped material layer and the second portion, so as to form a plurality of nano-pillar structures and a plurality of mask portions on the first portion, and exposing the first portion through the first trenches, wherein each of the nano-pillar structures comprises a first doped layer, a second doped layer and a third doped layer stacked on the first portion in sequence, and each of the mask portions is located on the third doped layer;
forming a plurality of first doped layer electrodes and a plurality of second doped layer electrodes in the first trenches, wherein each of the first doped layer electrodes is connected to a sidewall of the first doped layer, and each of the second doped layer electrodes is connected to a sidewall of the second doped layer;
forming a first insulating layer to cover the nano-pillar structures and the first trenches;
forming a plurality of conductive plugs to penetrate the first insulating layer, wherein first ends of the conductive plugs are respectively electrically connected to the first doped layer electrodes, the second doped layer electrodes and the third doped layer of each of the nano-pillar structures, and second ends of the conductive plugs are exposed on the first insulating layer;
forming at least one interconnection layer on the first insulating layer, wherein the conductive plugs are electrically connected to the at least one interconnection layer;
bonding a semiconductor substrate on the at least one interconnection layer;
removing the first portion to expose at least the first doped layer of each of the nano-pillar structures;
forming a transparent barrier layer to cover the exposed first doped layer; and
forming an optoelectronic thin film structure on the transparent barrier layer, wherein the optoelectronic thin film structure is electrically connected to the at least one interconnection layer, and the optoelectronic thin film structure comprises a plurality of photoconductive film portions corresponding to the nano-pillar structures respectively.

12. The manufacturing method of the image sensor structure ac

Assignees

• United Microelectronics Corp

Inventors

• Zhan Zhaoyao
• Feng Jing
• Jiang Xiaohong
• Tey Ching Hwa

Classifications

• H10F39/8033

  Photosensitive area · CPC title

• H10F39/811 Primary

  Interconnections · CPC title

• H10F39/011

  Manufacture or treatment of image sensors covered by group H10F39/12 · CPC title

• H10F39/182 Primary

  Colour image sensors · CPC title