An integrated circuit (IC) package product, e.g., system-on-chip (SoC) or system-in-package (SiP) product, may include at least one integrated inductor having a core magnetic field (B field) that extends parallel to the substrate major plane of at least one die or chiplet included in or mounted to the product, which may reduce the eddy currents within each die/chiplet substrate, and thereby reduce energy loss of the indictor. The IC package product may include a horizontally-extending IC package substrate, a horizontally-extending die mount base arranged on the IC package substrate, at least one die mounted to the die mount base in a vertical orientation, and an integrated inductor having a B field extending in a vertical direction parallel to the silicon substrate of each vertically-mounted die, thereby providing a reduced substrate loss in the integrated inductor, which provides an increased quality factor (Q) of the inductor.

A semiconductor apparatus includes a plurality of semiconductor devices. The semiconductor devices each include a ferroelectric layer, a conductive metal oxide layer, and a semiconductor layer, between two electrodes. The conductive metal oxide layer may be between the ferroelectric layer and the semiconductor layer. The ferroelectric layer, the conductive metal oxide layer, and the semiconductor layer may all include a metal oxide. The conductive metal oxide layer may include one or more materials selected from the group consisting of an indium oxide, a zinc oxide, a tin oxide, and any combination thereof.

A semiconductor apparatus includes a plurality of semiconductor devices. The semiconductor devices each include a ferroelectric layer, a conductive metal oxide layer, and a semiconductor layer, between two electrodes. The conductive metal oxide layer may be between the ferroelectric layer and the semiconductor layer. The ferroelectric layer, the conductive metal oxide layer, and the semiconductor layer may all include a metal oxide. The conductive metal oxide layer may include one or more materials selected from the group consisting of an indium oxide, a zinc oxide, a tin oxide, and any combination thereof.

A solid-state imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first electrode including a plurality of electrodes, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the first electrode has, at least in a portion, an overlap section where the plurality of electrodes overlap each other with a first insulation layer interposed therebetween.

A solid-state imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first electrode including a plurality of electrodes, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the first electrode has, at least in a portion, an overlap section where the plurality of electrodes overlap each other with a first insulation layer interposed therebetween.

An imaging device includes a first electrode, a charge accumulating electrode arranged with a space from the first electrode, an isolation electrode arranged with a space from the first electrode and the charge accumulating electrode and surrounding the charge accumulating electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer formed in contact with the first electrode and above the charge accumulating electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, and a second electrode formed on the photoelectric conversion layer. The isolation electrode includes a first isolation electrode and a second isolation electrode arranged with a space from the first isolation electrode, and the first isolation electrode is positioned between the first electrode and the second isolation electrode.

Disclosed are a memristor device, a method of fabricating the same, a synaptic device including a memristor device, and a neuromorphic device including a synaptic device. The disclosed memristor device may comprise a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to be spaced apart from the first electrode; and a resistance changing layer including a copolymer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The copolymer may be a copolymer of a first monomer and a second monomer, and the first polymer formed from the first monomer may have a property that diffusion of metal ions is faster than that of the second polymer formed from the second monomer. The second polymer may have a lower diffusivity of metal ions as compared with the first polymer. The first monomer may include vinylimidazole (VI). The second monomer may include 1,3,5-trivinyl-1,3,5-trimethylcyclotrisiloxane (V3D3). The copolymer may include p(V3D3-co-VI).

A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, in which each pixel has a first photoelectric conversion region formed above a semiconductor layer, a second photoelectric conversion region formed in the semiconductor layer, a first filter configured to transmit a light in a predetermined wavelength region corresponding to a color component, and a second filter having different transmission characteristics from the first filter, one photoelectric conversion region out of the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in a visible light region, the other photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in an infrared region, the first filter is formed above the first photoelectric conversion region, and the second filter has transmission characteristics of making wavelengths of lights in an infrared region absorbed in the other photoelectric conversion region formed below the first filter the same.

An organic image sensor may be configured to obtain a color signal associated with a particular wavelength spectrum of light absorbed by the organic image sensor may omit a color filter. The organic image sensor may include an organic photoelectric conversion layer including a first material and a second material. The first material may absorb a first wavelength spectrum of light, and the second material may absorb a second wavelength spectrum of light. The organic photoelectric conversion layer may include stacked upper and lower layers, and the respective material compositions of the lower and upper layers may be first and second mixtures of the first and second materials. A ratio of the first material to the second material in the first mixture may be greater than 1/1, and a ratio of the first material to the second material in the second mixture may be less than 1/1.

An image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion film that performs photoelectric conversion on light having entered therein; at least two electrodes, including a first electrode and a second electrode, disposed at a surface of the photoelectric conversion film; and at least two electrodes, including a third electrode and a fourth electrode, disposed at another surface of the photoelectric conversion film.