Patent ID: 8384175

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a solid state imaging device, the method comprising: forming a first transparent resin layer above a principal surface of a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of photodiode layers; exposing and developing the first transparent resin layer using a photomask, to respectively form block-shaped lens bodies above the photodiode layers so that the block-shaped lens bodies are separated from each other; melting the plurality of block-shaped lens bodies by heat, to form a plurality of first semispherical lens bodies so that first semispherical lens bodies are separated from each other; forming a second transparent resin layer having an etching rate higher than that of the first transparent resin layer so that the second transparent resin layer covers surfaces of the first lens bodies and fills between the first lens bodies; and etching an entire surface of the second transparent resin layer until top parts of the first lens bodies are exposed, to form a plurality of second lens bodies formed from the second transparent resin layer, each of the second lens bodies extending between the first lens bodies, and contacting a surface of the first lens body, wherein the top part of each of the first lens bodies is exposed from the second lens body.