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Charge coupled device for transferring electric charge

Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co Ltd
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Filing: 1985-02-06
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Granted: 1987-03-10
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Expires: 2005-02-06
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Abstract

Abstract An insulating film O is formed on a semiconductor substrate S. On the insulating film O, first electrodes M 1 are disposed in parallel and second electrodes M 2 are also disposed in parallel. The first electrodes M 1 are insulated from the second electrodes M 2 and the first electrodes M 1 and the second electrodes M 2 are disposed such that one side of a first electrode M 1 and one side of a second electrode M 2 are adjacent to each other. On the surface regions of the semiconductor substrate S between the respective other sides of the first electrodes M 1 and the second electrodes M 2 , high concentration regions S 3 are formed using the first and second electrodes M 1 and M 2 as a mask without causing deviation in positioning. To the first electrodes M 1 and the second electrodes M 2 , a first clock pulse φ 1 and a second clock pulse φ 2 are applied respectively and electric charges are transferred in response to these clock pulses.

Inventors

  • 👤 Yuji Kitamura
  • 👤 Nobuhiro Mitani

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10D; H10D44/00; H10D44/40; H10D44/45; H10D44/472; H10D44/474

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim 193 words
A charge coupled device for transferring electric charges successively in response to first and second clock pulses, comprising: a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film formed on said semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first electrodes disposed in parallel at almost equal intervals on said insulating film and each having a first and second edge, a plurality second electrodes disposed in parallel on said insulating film and each having a first and second edge, the first edge of each of said second electrodes being in partial overlapping relationship with the first edge of one of said first electrodes and being insulated therefrom, the second edges of said first and second electrodes being free of overlap with and spaced from any other electrode, and impurity regions of high concentration of the same conductive type as that of said semiconductor substrate, formed respectively in a surface region of said semiconductor substrate in a space between the second edges of a first electrode and said second electrode which do not overlap, means for coupling said first clock pulse to each of said first electrodes, and means for coupling said second clock pulse to each of said second electrodes.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 193 words
A charge coupled device for transferring electric charges successively in response to first and second clock pulses, comprising: a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film formed on said semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first electrodes disposed in parallel at almost equal intervals on said insulating film and each having a first and second edge, a plurality second electrodes disposed in parallel on said insulating film and each having a first and second edge, the first edge of each of said second electrodes being in partial overlapping relationship with the first edge of one of said first electrodes and being insulated therefrom, the second edges of said first and second electrodes being free of overlap with and spaced from any other electrode, and impurity regions of high concentration of the same conductive type as that of said semiconductor substrate, formed respectively in a surface region of said semiconductor substrate in a space between the second edges of a first electrode and said second electrode which do not overlap, means for coupling said first clock pulse to each of said first electrodes, and means for coupling said second clock pulse to each of said second electrodes.

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