Patent ID: 7750354

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a color filter that is composed of an inorganic material and configured to transmit a specific wavelength component of incident light; a light shielding film configured to shield incident light; and a photoelectric converter configured to generate an electrical signal according to a quantity of light transmitted by the color filter, wherein the light shielding film has an aperture at a position opposing the photoelectric converter, the color filter is disposed in the aperture of the light shielding film, a film thickness of the color filter is less than or equal to a film thickness of the light shielding film, the color filter is a multilayer interference filter, the multilayer interference filter is composed of a pair of λ/4 multilayer films and a spacer layer sandwiched therebetween, each multilayer film being constituted from two types of alternately laminated dielectric layers that are of different materials and have a same optical thickness, and the spacer layer having a different optical thickness from the dielectric layers constituting the λ/4 multilayer films, and the dielectric layers that constitute the λ/4 multilayer films consist of two materials selected from the group consisting of monosilicon dioxide, monotitanium dioxide, ditantalum pentoxide, monozirconium dioxide, monosilicon mononitride, trisilicon tetranitride, dialuminum trioxide, monomagnesium difluoride, monohafnium trioxide and monomagnesium dioxide.