Patent ID: 7705374

Claim:
A solid-state image pickup device comprising: a pixel region on a substrate including (a) a sensor region for photoelectrically converting incident light, (b) a vertical charge transfer region formed on one side of said sensor region with a readout region interposed between said sensor region and said vertical charge transfer region, (c) a channel stop region formed on a side of said vertical charge transfer region opposite from said sensor region with said vertical charge transfer region interposed between said sensor region and said channel stop region, and (d) a vertical transfer electrode on said vertical charge transfer region with an insulating film interposed between said vertical transfer electrode and said vertical charge transfer region, said vertical transfer electrode being formed above said vertical charge transfer region such that said vertical transfer electrode is within said readout region and said channel stop region with said channel stop region extending past an end surface of said vertical transfer electrode; and a light shielding electrode over said vertical transfer electrode and with a second base extension portion that partially extends over said channel stop region from one side of said vertical transfer electrode and another smear resistance enhancing portion that extends over said sensor region from an opposite side of said vertical transfer electrode, wherein, said smear resistance enhancing portion of said light shielding electrode extends farther from said vertical transfer electrode than does said second base extension portion.