Patent ID: 8792034

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: first and second substrates; a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels including: a first multilayered interconnection layer of the first substrate, the first multilayered interconnection layer comprising a plurality of interconnection layers; a second multilayered interconnection layer of the second substrate, the second multilayered interconnection layer comprising a plurality of interconnection layers; a photoelectric converter section on the first substrate to generate and accumulate signal charges corresponding to incident light; a charge accumulation capacitor section comprising two interconnection layers with a dielectric layer in between; a first transfer transistor for transferring the signal charges generated by the photoelectric converter section to the charge accumulation capacitor section, the charge accumulation capacitor section temporarily holding the signal charges transferred from the photoelectric converter section; a plurality of MOS transistors on the second substrate, the plurality of MOS transistors on the second substrate including a second transfer transistor for transferring the signal charges held in the charge accumulation capacitor section; a first connection electrode of the first multilayered interconnection layer physically connected to a first connection electrode of the second multilayered interconnection layer; and a second connection electrode of the first multilayered interconnection layer physically connected to a second connection electrode of the second multilayered interconnection layer, wherein the first multilayered interconnection layer or the second multilayered interconnection layer includes the charge accumulation capacitor section and wherein at least a portion of the charge accumulation capacitor section is between a plurality of interconnection layers of the first substrate and a plurality of interconnection layers of the second substrate.