US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 7 for "Imaging device including an electrode having a tantalum nitride layer and another layer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,857, issued on April 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device including an electrode having a tantalum nitride layer and another layer" was invented by Shunsuke Isono (Osaka, Japan), Yuuko Tomekawa (Osaka, Japan) and Ryota Sakaida (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion film and an electrode. The photoelectric conversion film converts light to charge. The electrode collects the charge. The electrode includes two or more layers. The two or more layers include a first layer containing tantalum nitride. An uppermost ...