Image sensor based on germanium p-i-n photodiode and manufacturing method thereof

Abstract

The invention provides an image sensor based on a germanium p-i-n photodiode and a manufacturing method of the image sensor, and relates to the technical field of semiconductors, in particular to a method for manufacturing and integrating the germanium p-i-n photodiode into an image sensor structure, and the germanium p-i-n photodiode is a vertical p-i-n photodiode for manufacturing a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor. According to the invention, the production and manufacturing process of the short-wave infrared image sensor with high speed and small pixel size is realized by a relatively simpler manufacturing process; and the short-wave infrared image sensor which is low in cost and compatible with the CMOS and is produced and manufactured in batches and with a high production qualification rate is realized. The image sensor manufactured by the production process has lower dark current from visible light to short wave infrared wavelength and higher sensitivity.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductors, and relates to an image sensor based on a germanium p-i-n photodiode and a manufacturing method thereof, in particular to a method for manufacturing and integrating a germanium p-i-n photodiode into an image sensor structure, the germanium p-i-n photodiode is used for Fabrication of vertical p-i-n photodiodes for CMOS image sensors. Background technique [0002] At present, SWIR CMOS Image Sensor has been widely used in small unmanned aerial vehicle systems, motor vehicle systems, intelligent agricultural systems, monitoring systems and other fields. As is well known in the art, using silicon material as photodiode has low quantum efficiency for infrared absorption, especially for wavelength bands above 1 μm with almost no absorption; compared with silicon, germanium-based short-wave infrared CMOS image sensors can capture images from visible light ( 0.4μm - 0.75μm) and further wavelength...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] When manufacturing germanium-based CMOS image sensors, the existing technology generally uses direct epitaxial growth of germanium on a silicon target wafer, but due to the 4.2% lattice mismatch between germanium and silicon, epitaxial growth will produce misfit dislocations and Penetrating dislocation (thread dislocation), so there are more defects and lower quality, which affects the detection signal-to-noise ratio and detection sensitivity

Although this problem can be improved by some technical means, it will increase the complexity of the device structure and / or process, such as the use of narrow aperture selective manufacturing growth

In addition, since germanium is grown on a silicon wafer at a low temperature by direct epitaxial growth of germanium on a silicon target wafer, the quality of the germanium layer is directly reduced.

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