Optical filter and solid-state imaging device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9664830-B2
Application number	US-201313972056-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2013
Priority date	Aug 27, 2012
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

An optical filter including a near infrared absorbing layer on a glass substrate, in which adhesiveness between the glass substrate and the near infrared absorbing layer is firm, high reliability is enabled in uses under a high temperature and high humidity environment, and manufacturing yield is secured, and a high reliability solid-state imaging device having the optical filter are provided. An optical filter includes: a glass substrate; and a near infrared absorbing layer formed on one principal surface of the glass substrate, wherein the near infrared absorbing layer is obtained by reacting a composition for forming the near infrared absorbing layer on the glass substrate and the composition contains a transparent resin having a fluorene skeleton and a reactivity group; a near infrared absorbing dye; and a silane coupling agent and/or oligomer thereof having a hydrolyzable group and a functional group which have reactivity for the reactivity group.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An optical filter, comprising:
a glass substrate; and
a near infrared absorbing layer formed on one principal surface of the glass substrate;
wherein:
the near infrared absorbing layer is obtained by reacting a composition for forming the near infrared absorbing layer on the glass substrate; and
the composition contains comprises a transparent resin having a fluorene skeleton and a reactivity group; group, a near infrared absorbing dye, and a silane coupling agent and/or oligomer thereof having a hydrolyzable group and a functional group which has reactivity for the reactivity group.

2. The optical filter according to claim 1 , wherein the transparent resin is selected from an acrylic resin, a polycarbonate resin, and a polyester resin.

3. The optical filter according to claim 1 , wherein the transparent resin is a polyester resin.

4. The optical filter according to claim 1 , wherein:
the composition comprises the near infrared absorbing dye in an amount of 0.2 parts by mass to 10 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the transparent resin; and
the composition comprises the silane coupling agent and/or oligomer thereof in an amount of 0.1 parts by mass to 30 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the transparent resin.

5. The optical filter according to claim 1 , wherein the composition comprises the silane coupling agent and/or oligomer thereof in an amount of 0.5 pans by mass to 15 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the transparent resin.

6. The optical filter according to claim 1 , wherein:
the near infrared absorbing dye comprises a near infrared absorbing dye (B1) having an absorption spectrum of light in wavelength region of 400 nm to 1000 nm measured by dissolving into a solvent for the dye having refractive index (n 20 d) of less than 1.500;
the absorption spectrum has a maximum absorption peak;
the maximum absorption peak has a maximum absorption at a wavelength within a region of 695 nm to 720 nm;
the maximum absorption peak has a full width at half maximum of 60 nm or less;
if an absorbance at the maximum absorption peak is assigned a value of 1 dividing a difference between the absorbance at the maximum peak and an absorbance at 630 nm by a difference between the wavelength at the maximum absorption peak and 630 nm yields a value of 0.01 to 0.05;
a refractive index (n 20 d) of the transparent resin is 1.54 or more; and
a transmittance of visible light of the near infrared absorbing layer at 450 nm to 600 nm is 70% or more;
a transmittance of light of the near infrared absorbing layer in a wavelength region of 695 nm to 720 nm is 10% or less; and
a variation D of transmittance of the near infrared absorbing layer expressed by expression (1) is −0.8 or less;
D (%/nm)=[ T 700 (%)− T 630 (%)]/[700 (nm)−630 (nm)]  (1)

where T 700 is a transmittance at a wavelength of 700 nm in a transmission spectrum of the near infrared absorbing layer, and T 630 is a transmittance at a wavelength of 630 nm in the transmission spectrum of the near infrared absorbing layer.

7. The optical filter according to claim 6 , wherein:
the maximum absorption peak in the absorption spectrum of the near infrared absorbing dye (B1) has the maximum absorption at a wavelength within a region of 700 nm to 720 nm; and
the variation D of the transmittance of the near infrared absorbing layer expressed by the expression (1) is −0.86 or less.

8. The optical filter according to claim 6 , wherein the near infrared absorbing dye (B1) consists of at least one squarylium-based compound according to formula (F1):

where:
R 4 and R 6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or —NR 7 R 8 ;
R 7 and R 8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or —C(═O) R 9 ;
R 9 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group or an alanyl group having 6 to 11 carbon atoms which may have a substituent;
where R 1 and R 2 , R 2 and R 5 , and R 1 and R 3 may each independently form a heterocycle A, a heterocycle B, and a heterocycle C respectively having 5 or 6 members including a nitrogen atom by coupling with each other;
the formula (F1) has at least one ring structure selected from the heterocycle A, the heterocycle B, and the heterocycle C;
R 1 and R 2 when the heterocycle A is formed are a divalent group -Q- in which they are bonded, and represent an alkylene group or an alkyleneoxy group in which a hydrogen atom may be substituted by an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms;
R 2 and R 5 when the heterocycle B is formed and R 1 and R 3 when the heterocycle C is formed are respectively divalent groups —X 1 —Y 1 — and X 2 —Y 2 in which they are bonded, X 1 and X 2 being bonded to nitrogen;
X 1 and X 2 are each expressed by the following formula (1x) or (2x), and Y 1 and Y 2 are each expressed by any one selected from the following formulas (1y) to (5y), and when each of X 1 and X 2 is expressed by the formula (2x), each of Y 1 and Y 2 may be a single bond;

each Z independently represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or —NR 28 R 29 ;
R 28 and R 29 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms);
R 21 to R 26 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms;
R 27 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atom;
R 7 , R 8 , R 9 , R 4 , R 6 , R 21 to R 27 , R 1 to R 3 when the heterocycle is not formed, and R 5 may form a 5-membered ring or a 6-membered ring by being bonded to any of the others among these with each other;
R 21 and R 26 and R 21 and R 27 may be bonded directly;
where R 1 and R 2 when the heterocycle is not formed each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms which may have a substituent, an allyl group, an aryl group or an alanyl group having 6 to 11 carbon atoms; and
R 3 and R 5 when the heterocycle is not formed each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or an alkyl group or an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

9. The optical filter according to claim 8 , wherein the functional group of the silane coupling agent and/or oligomer thereof is an epoxy group or a (metha)acryloxy group.

10. The optical filter according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the near infrared-absorbing layer is 0.5 μm to 100 μm.

11. The optical filter according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a dielectric multilayered film on a surface of the near infrared-absorbing layer which is opposite to a surface on the glass substrate.

12. A solid-state imaging device, comprising:
a lens;
the optical filter according to claim 1 ; and
a solid-state image sensor disposed on an optical axis of light incident from an object side or a light source side in this sequence.

Assignees

• Asahi Glass Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hasegawa Makoto
• Sekikawa Kenta
• Kashiwabara Satoshi
• Shimoda Hiroshi
• Kaida Yuriko
• Kumai Hiroshi

Classifications

• C09B23/0066

  the polymethine chain being part of a carbocyclic ring,(e.g. benzene, naphtalene, cyclohexene, cyclobutenene-quadratic acid) · CPC title

• G02B5/223

  containing organic substances, e.g. dyes, inks or pigments · CPC title

• G02B5/208

  for use with infrared or ultraviolet radiation, e.g. for separating visible light from infrared and/or ultraviolet radiation · CPC title

• H04N25/00

  Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof · CPC title

• G02B1/115

  Multilayers · CPC title