Patent ID: 8900904

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a multitude of micro-optoelectronic devices, comprising: providing a first wafer comprising a semiconductor material; providing a second wafer comprising an optically transparent material; producing a multitude of light sensor arrangements in the semiconductor material of the first wafer for each of the micro-optical devices to be manufactured; structuring the second wafer such that a multitude of micro-optical elements are formed therein for each of the micro-optoelectronic devices to be manufactured; producing a wafer stack by means of wafer bonding, said wafer stack comprising the first wafer and the second wafer arranged above same, each of the micro-optical elements being arranged and optically structured such that different portions of light beams incident onto the micro-optical element are directed onto different light sensor elements of a light sensor arrangement at least partly arranged below said micro-optical element; and dicing the wafer stack into the multitude of micro-optoelectronic devices so that each micro-optoelectronic device comprises a single one-piece portion of the wafer stack, the single one-piece portion comprising a multitude of micro-optical elements, arranged in a two-dimensional array, and a multitude of light sensor arrangements with each micro-optical element having a light sensor arrangement at least partially arranged below the respective micro-optical element, each light sensor arrangement comprising a plurality of light sensor elements, arranged in a further two-dimensional array, and each micro-optical element being configured to direct different portions of light beams incident onto the respective micro-optical element onto different ones of the plurality of light sensor elements of the light sensor arrangement at least partly arranged below the respective micro-optical element; and producing an optically transparent window in the first wafer so that light of a light source located beyond a side of the first wafer which faces away from the second wafer may pass through the first wafer.