DETECTION APPARATUS AND RADIATION DETECTION SYSTEM

• US 20120080605A1
• Filed: 09/13/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kawanabe, Jun, Mochizuki, Chiori, Watanabe, Minoru, Ishii, Takamasa, Fujiyoshi, Kentaro, Wayama, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US13/231,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20120080605A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 250/370.08
• CPC Class Codes: G01T 1/243 Modular detectors, e.g. arrays formed from self contained units constructional or manufacturing details H01L25/00

Abstract

A stacked-type detection apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged at small intervals in row and column directions and has small signal line capacitance that allows a high-speed driving operation. Each pixel includes a conversion element configured to convert radiation or light into an electric charge and a switch element disposed on an insulating substrate. A driving line is disposed on the insulating substrate and is connected to switch elements arranged in the row direction; and a signal line is connected to switch elements arranged in the column direction. Each conversion element is disposed above a corresponding switch element. The driving line is realized using a conductive layer embedded in an insulating layer located below an uppermost surface portion of the driving line located below an uppermost surface portion of a main electrode of the switch element located below the conversion element.

Claims

1. A detection apparatus comprising:

a plurality of pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction on an insulating substrate, each pixel including a conversion element configured to convert radiation or light into an electric charge and a switch element disposed on the insulating substrate and configured to output an electric signal corresponding to the electric charge, the conversion element being disposed above the switch element;

a driving line connected to a plurality of switch elements arranged in the row direction; and

a signal line connected to a plurality of switch elements arranged in the column direction,

wherein an uppermost surface portion of a main electrode of the switch element is located below the conversion element,

wherein the driving line is located on the insulating substrate and an uppermost surface portion of the driving line is located below the uppermost surface portion of the main electrode of each switch element,

and wherein the signal line is formed by a conductive layer embedded in an insulating member in a layer located lower than the uppermost surface portion of the driving line.

2. The detection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the insulating member is the insulating substrate or an insulating layer disposed between the insulating substrate and the driving line.

3. The detection apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the driving line includes a conductive layer located between the insulating substrate and the uppermost surface portion of the main electrode of each switch element.

4. The detection apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a control electrode of each switch element includes a conductive layer embedded in an insulating layer located between the insulating substrate and the uppermost surface portion of the main electrode of the switch element.

5. The detection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

when a width of an upper portion of the signal line is denoted by ST and a maximum width thereof is denoted by SM, the following condition is satisfied:

ST<

SM.

6. The detection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a width of a lower portion of the driving line is denoted by GB and a maximum width thereof is denoted by GM, the following condition is satisfied:

GB<

GM.

7. The detection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a width of an upper portion of the driving line is denoted by GT, the following condition is satisfied:

GT<

GM.

8. The detection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the signal line and the driving line is embedded in a plurality of insulating layers.

9. A radiation detection system comprising:

the detection apparatus according to claim 1;

a signal processing unit configured to process a signal supplied from the detection apparatus;

a storage unit configured to store a signal supplied from the signal processing unit;

a display unit configured to display the signal supplied from the signal processing unit;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the signal supplied from the signal processing unit; and

a radiation source configured to generate the radiation.