A new three-dimensional (3D) integration technology for realizing
a highly parallel image-processing chip has been developed.
Several LSI wafers are vertically stacked and glued to each other
after thinning them using this new technology. This technology can
be considered as both 3D LSI technology and wafer-scale 3D
chip-on-chip packaging technology. The effective packaging
density can be significantly increased by stacking the chips in a
vertical direction. Several key techniques for this 3D
integration have been developed. In this paper, we demonstrate
the highly parallel image sensor chip with a 3D structure. The 3D
image sensor test chip was fabricated using this new 3D
integration technology and its basic performance was evaluated.
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