Patent ID: 7906824

Claim:
A solid state imaging device comprising: a plurality of photodetector parts that are arranged in matrix on a semiconductor substrate and that convert incident light into signal charge, a plurality of vertical charge transfer parts that read out the signal charge from the photodetector parts and transfer the signal charge in the vertical direction, and a first light-shielding film that shields the plural vertical charge transfer parts from the incident light; wherein each of the plural vertical charge transfer parts comprises: a transfer channel provided on the semiconductor substrate along the vertical array of the plural photodetector parts, a plurality of first transfer electrodes that are provided on the transfer channel so as to traverse the transfer channel and that are coupled to each other in the horizontal direction in spacing between the photodetector parts, and a second transfer electrode that is provided at least on the transfer channel and arranged between the first transfer electrodes; and the first light-shielding films having electroconductivity are formed continuously in the horizontal direction, with openings on the photodetector parts and isolation regions formed between the photodetector parts so as to extend in the horizontal direction, the first light-shielding films being connected electrically to the second transfer electrode.