The invention relates to a gettering method through implantation of carbon ions. The method comprises the following steps that high-energy carbon ions are implanted on an exposed layer on the back face of a
silicon wafer or a
silicon dioxide layer on the back face of the
silicon wafer by the adoption of the
ion implantation process, and a
crystal defect area is formed on the implantation layer of the silicon
wafer; the annealing is carried out, the
crystal defect area is converted to be a gettering area, and
metal ions in the silicon wafer are captured to form an
impurity removing area; the
impurity removing area is removed according to the chemical and mechanical
grinding method. The
ion implantation gettering process and the manufacturing process of a
photodiode are high in compatibility and can be easily added into the prior art, the
carbon ion implantation has no
side effect on the performance of a device, and the device is not polluted in the gettering process of the
ion implantation; meanwhile, the
ion implantation gettering process parameters are optimized and controlled, so that the
metal ion gettering effect is good, the performance of the gettered
photodiode is better remarkably,
dark current and white pixels are reduced remarkably, and the imaging effect of a
CMOS sensor is improved.