Patent 11024659 was granted and assigned to Samsung on June, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image sensor and a method of fabricating an image sensor are provided, the image sensor including a plurality of color filters spaced apart from each other on a semiconductor substrate; a protective layer covering sidewalls of the color filters and top surfaces of the color filters; and a low-refractive pattern filling a space between the color filters.