Patent ID: 7859586
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state imaging apparatus being one of pieces diced from an assembly, the solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a light-receiving chip having a plurality of light-receiving cells arranged either one dimensionally or two dimensionally on a main surface of a base substrate, the main surface being made up of a light-receiving area on which the light-receiving cells are arranged and a periphery area surrounding the light-receiving area; a transparent protection plate, at least a part thereof that corresponds to the light-receiving area being transparent; and a collective lens of the light-receiving cells, wherein the transparent protection plate has a skirt portion at a periphery thereof, the skirt portion is positioned on the periphery area of the main surface thereby forming a space between the light-receiving cells and the transparent protection plate, the assembly is comprised of two layers, the two layers being a sheet of transparent protection plates and a semiconductor wafer of light-receiving chips that are attached to each other such that each transparent protection plate is combined with a corresponding light-receiving chip, and the diced pieces have such diced edges that result by cutting the two layers simultaneously, the skirt portion is formed of a sealing material, and the thickness of a space between the transparent protection plate and the light-receiving cells is greater than a height of the collective lens by 10μm-100μm.