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Published May 10, 2017 | Supplemental Material
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Visible Wavelength Color Filters using Dielectric Subwavelength Gratings for Backside-illuminated CMOS Image Sensor Technologies

Abstract

We report transmissive color filters based on subwavelength dielectric gratings that can replace conventional dye-based color filters used in backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor (BSI CIS) technologies. The filters are patterned in an 80-nm-thick poly-silicon film on a 115-nm-thick SiO_2 spacer layer. They are optimized for operating at the primary RGB colors, exhibit peak transmittance of 60-80%, and an almost insensitive response over a ±20° angular range. This technology enables shrinking of the pixel sizes down to near a micrometer.

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© 2017 American Chemical Society. Received: February 14, 2017; Revised: March 30, 2017; Published: April 7, 2017. This work was supported by Samsung Electronics. Part of the device nanofabrication was developed at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at California Institute of Technology. Y. H. was supported by a Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) fellowship. S. M. K. was supported by the DOE Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award no. DE-SC0001293. We thank H. A. Atwater and B. Fultz for providing the transmission-type microscope and the spectrometer. The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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