US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Oct. 27 for "Solid-state imaging element including nanoparticles" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,770, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element including nanoparticles" was invented by Michinori Shiomi (Tokyo), Syuuiti Takizawa (Tokyo), Yuta Okabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Osamu Enoki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yosuke Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a photoelectric conversion layer including first semiconductor nanoparticles; and a buffer layer including second semiconductor nanoparticles. A p-n junction surface is formed at...