Patent ID: 8704156

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a solid-state image pickup apparatus, comprising: forming a photoelectric converter on a substrate; forming a drive element on the substrate, forming an insulating film on the drive element, and flattening a surface formed; forming a wiring layer with a waveguide portion by forming, on the insulating film, a wiring embedded in an interlayer insulating film, a concave portion provided in a part of the interlayer insulating film above the photoelectric converter, and the waveguide portion formed by embedding, in the concave portion, a material having a refractive index larger than the interlayer insulating film; and performing at least one additional forming of an additional wiring layer with an additional waveguide portion, wherein the at least one additional forming is by forming, over the interlayer insulating film, an additional wiring embedded in an additional interlayer insulating film, an additional concave portion provided in a part of the additional interlayer insulating film, and the additional waveguide portion formed by embedding, in the additional concave portion, a material having a refractive index larger than the additional interlayer insulating film, to form an optical waveguide through the formation of the wiring layer and each of the additional wiring layer formed by the at least one additional forming and connection of the waveguide portion and each of the additional waveguide portion formed by the at least one additional forming, the optical waveguide extending from a position at a last formed wiring layer of the each of the additional wiring layer formed up to a position of the wiring in the wiring layer.