US Patent Issued to LFOUNDRY on Oct. 7 for "Method for manufacturing a backside illumination optical sensor with improved detection parameters" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,708, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LFOUNDRY S.R.L. (Avezzano, Italy).

"Method for manufacturing a backside illumination optical sensor with improved detection parameters" was invented by Paolo Organtini (Avezzano, Italy) and Giovanni Margutti (Avezzano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a backside illumination (BSI) CMOS optical sensor and more specifically to a method of reducing the cross talk and enhance the photon detection efficiency (PDE) in a backside illumination (BSI) CMOS optical sensor. In particular the claimed method comprises the step of creating an isolat...