US 12,237,346 B2
Detection device with stacked photodiodes
Keiichi Saito, Tokyo (JP); Takashi Nakamura, Tokyo (JP); Gen Koide, Tokyo (JP); Takao Someya, Tokyo (JP); and Tomoyuki Yokota, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Japan Display Inc., Tokyo (JP); and The University of Tokyo, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Japan Display Inc., Tokyo (JP); and The University of Tokyo, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/225,809.
Application 18/225,809 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/002773, filed on Jan. 26, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-010589 (JP), filed on Jan. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0369355 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H01L 27/144 (2006.01); H01L 31/101 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 27/1446 (2013.01) [H01L 31/1013 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A detection device comprising
a plurality of optical sensors arranged on a substrate in first and second directions along a plane of the substrate which has a normal direction orthogonal to the plane of the substrate, wherein
each of the optical sensors comprises:
a first photodiode; and
a second photodiode that is coupled in series and in an opposite direction to the first photodiode, wherein
the first photodiode is stacked on the second photodiode in the normal direction,
the optical sensors are configured such that a first electrode, an electron transport layer, a first active layer, a hole transport layer, a second active layer, and a second electrode are stacked in the normal direction of the substrate in the order as listed,
the first active layer includes a p-n heterojunction of the first photodiode,
the second active layer includes a p-n heterojunction of the second photodiode,
the first active layer is in direct contact with the hole transport layer, and
the second active layer is in direct contact with the hole transport layer.