US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 11 for "Image sensor and method of fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,746, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Kook Tae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jingyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byeongtaek Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunghwi Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor comprises a substrate having first and second surfaces opposite to each other, a fixed charge layer in contact with the second surface, an interlayer dielectric layer covering the first surface, a device isolation part adjacent to the first surface in the substrate, and a pixel i...