Patent ID: 7256830

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device, comprising: a semi-conductor substrate demarcating a two-dimensional surface; a multiplicity of photoelectric conversion units formed at grid points of a first grid of a first tetragonal matrix and a second tetragonal matrix having grid points between grid points of the first tetragonal matrix; a vertical transfer channel arranged in a vertical direction by weaving a space between the horizontally adjacent photoelectric conversion units; a plurality of single-layered electrodes formed above the vertical transfer channel and arranged in a horizontal direction by weaving a space between the vertically adjacent photoelectric conversion units, wherein each single-layered electrode does not overlap with adjacent single-layered electrodes and has a gap with each of the adjacent single-layered electrodes; and a signal processor having a gate electrode and formed, in correspondence to the vertical transfer channel, at one end of the vertical transfer channel on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the gate electrode is made of a same electrode material as the single-layered electrode and is formed on a same layer as the single-layered electrode.