Nanoparticle Color Filter Composition for Heat- and Light-Stable Sensors

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing coloring compositions for image sensor color filters suffer from poor light resistance and heat resistance, necessitating improved photostability and heat stability.

Innovation Solution

A coloring composition for color filters comprising nanoparticles, such as titanium dioxide, with a colorant adsorbed on their surface, including compounds like perylene, diketopyrrolopyrrole, or azo compounds with carboxyl groups, enhancing photostability and heat stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional coloring compositions are used in color filters, then manufacturing is simple, but photostability and heat stability are poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephotostability and heat stabilityVSAvoidcomplexity of coloring composition structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses composite materials by combining colorants with nanoparticles (such as metal oxides or non-metal oxides) to create a coloring composition that achieves both improved photostability and heat stability while maintaining manufacturing feasibility. The composite structure allows the colorant to be supported by the nanoparticle, enhancing reliability without excessive complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the chemical and physical parameters of the coloring composition by selecting specific colorant molecules with particular functional groups (such as carboxyl groups) that can interact with nanoparticle surfaces. This parameter optimization improves photostability and heat stability while keeping the composition manageable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If colorant is adsorbed on nanoparticle surface, then photostability and heat stability improve, but transmittance control becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephotostability and heat stabilityVSAvoidtransmittance control precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by controlling the adsorption of colorant molecules at specific locations on the nanoparticle surface. By optimizing the distribution and orientation of colorant molecules locally on the nanoparticle surface, the patent achieves improved stability while maintaining precise control over the overall transmittance properties of the coloring composition

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The composition achieves high transmittance and improved reliability, maintaining stability under heat and light conditions, ensuring effective optical properties and reduced light scattering.

Implementation Method 1

a colorant adsorbed on the surface of the nanoparticle

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdsorption: Adsorption

Data Source

PatentUS20260028483A1Coloring composition for color filters and method of manufacturing the same, and color filter for image sensors manufactured using the coloring composition for color filters
Publication Date: 2026.01.29 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A coloring composition for a color filter, a method of manufacturing the same, and a color filter for an image sensor manufactured using the coloring composition for a color filter are provided. The coloring composition includes a coloring composite including: a nanoparticle including a metal oxide or a non-metal oxide; and a colorant adsorbed on a surface of the nanoparticle, wherein the colorant includes one selected from a perylene compound including a carboxyl group (—COOH) at the para position of a benzene ring, a diketopyrrolopyrrole compound including a carboxyl group (—COOH) at the para position of a benzene ring, and an azo compound including a carboxyl group (—COOH) at the para position of a benzene ring.