Patent ID: 6794692
Filing Date: 2004-09-21
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
A solid-state image pick-up device having a plurality of photoelectric converting devices arranged like a tetragonal grid in a row direction and a column direction orthogonal thereto over a surface of a semiconductor substrate, comprising:a plurality of vertical transfer sections provided corresponding to a plurality of photoelectric converting device strings having the photoelectric converting devices arranged in the column direction respectively and serving to transfer a charge of the photoelectric converting device in the column direction; a horizontal transfer section for transferring the charge from the vertical transfer section in the row direction; and an output section for outputting a signal corresponding to the charge to be transferred by the horizontal transfer section, wherein the vertical transfer section includes a vertical transfer channel and a plurality of vertical transfer electrodes provided on an upper layer of the vertical transfer channel, the vertical transfer channel is provided in winding shape between the photoelectric converting devices constituting the corresponding photoelectric converting device string, the vertical transfer electrode includes a first vertical transfer electrode having a first conductive layer formed on the upper layer of the vertical transfer channel between the photoelectric converting devices and a second vertical transfer electrode having a second conductive layer formed on the upper layer of the vertical transfer channel on a side of the photoelectric converting device, and the first vertical transfer electrode and the second vertical transfer electrode corresponding to the photoelectric converting devices for the same row are driven in response to driving signals having the same phase, respectively.