Patent ID: 7999291

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a solid state imaging device comprising a photo-electric conversion portion array including a plurality of photo-electric conversion parts and a transfer electrode array including a plurality of transfer electrodes, said photo-electric conversion portion array and said transfer electrode array being provided in parallel to each other, upper surfaces and side wall surfaces of said transfer electrode array being covered with a light-shielding layer, and a transparent layer showing an oxidizing property at the time of film formation, said transparent layer being formed on said photo-electric conversion parts and said light-shielding layer, wherein said method includes the steps of: forming a light-shielding layer material layer on a semiconductor substrate provided with said photo-electric conversion portion array and said transfer electrode array, wherein the light-shielding material layer extends only partially down vertical sides of the transfer electrode adjacent the photo-electric conversion parts; forming an etching mask on said light-shielding layer material layer, and etching said light-shielding layer material layer so as to provide said light-shielding layer material layer with openings corresponding to said photo-electric conversion parts; forming an anti-oxidizing passivation layer on said photo-electric conversion parts and said light-shielding layer; and forming said transparent layer on said passivation layer.