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Wafer level lens, production method of wafer level lens, and imaging unit

a production method and technology applied in the field of wafer level lens, can solve the problems of increasing the production cost corresponding to this process, affecting the quality of the lens, so as to prevent the generation of light transmission and reflection at a region other than the lens surface, and prevent the transmission of light

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-05-31
FUJIFILM CORP
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[0009]Originally, the wafer level lens has a big profit of suppressing production cost since a plurality of lenses are simultaneously molded on a substrate, and the substrate is diced and connected to a semiconductor substrate carrying thereon an imaging device, and the like. However, if a light shielding member is separately attached, an increase in the production cost corresponding to this process is inevitable.
[0026]The present invention is capable of providing a wafer level lens with which a sufficient light shielding property is obtained, generation of defects such as ghosts, flares and the like due to a reflected light can be prevented, and an increase in the production cost can be suppressed; a production method of a wafer level lens, and an imaging unit.

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Owing to this constitution, if a wafer level lens is diced and placed on an imaging device to give an imaging unit and when light transmission and reflection occur at a region other than the lens surface of the lens, there is a fear of tendency of defects in optical performances such as ghosts and flares in taking an image.
However, if a light shielding member is separately attached, an increase in the production cost corresponding to this process is inevitable.

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[0041]First, the constitutions of a wafer level lens and an imaging unit will be explained.

[0042]FIG. 1 is a plane view showing one example of the constitution of a wafer level lens. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken in a line A-A of the constitution of the wafer level lens shown in FIG. 1.

[0043]The wafer level lens has a lens module having a substrate 1 and a plurality of lenses 10 formed on the substrate 1. The plurality of lenses 10 are arranged on the substrate 1 in one-dimensional mode or two-dimensional mode. In this constitution example, an example of a constitution in which the plurality of lenses 10 are arranged on the substrate 1 in two-dimensional mode as in FIG. 1 will be explained. The lens 10 is constituted of the same material as for the substrate 1, and molded on the substrate 1.

[0044]As shown in FIG. 2, the lens 10 has a concave-shaped lens surface 10a and a lens marginal part 10b around the lens surface 10a. Here, the lens surface 10a has an optical property o...

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A sufficient light-shielding property is obtained by a wafer level lens having at least one lens module having a substrate and a plurality of lenses formed on the substrate in which the wafer level lens has a black resist layer formed on the surface of the lens module or on the surface of the substrate and the black resist layer is formed with a pattern having an opening at a part intersecting the optical axis of the lens, and generation of defects such as ghosts, flares and the like due to a reflected light can be prevented and an increase in the production cost can be suppressed.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a wafer level lens, a production method of a wafer level lens, and an imaging unit.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Presently, a portable terminal of electronic instruments such as cellular phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and the like is loaded with a small and thin imaging unit. Such an imaging unit is generally equipped with a solid state imaging device such as a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor, a CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor and the like, and a lens for forming a subject image on the solid state imaging device.[0003]With reduction in size and thickness of a portable terminal, reduction in size and thickness of an imaging unit is requested. For lowering the cost of a portable terminal, an efficient production process is desired. As the method of producing a lot of such small lenses, there is known a method in which a wafer level lens having a constitution containing a plurality of lenses mo...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G02B7/02B05D5/06
CPCG02B3/0031G02B7/022G02B13/001H01L27/14627G02B1/11G02B13/0085B29D11/00009B29D11/00307B29D11/00G02B13/18H01L27/146H04N23/55B29D11/00096
Inventor MARUYAMA, YOICHI
Owner FUJIFILM CORP
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