Patent ID: 8173479

Claim:
A production method of a solid-state imaging device, comprising steps of: implanting impurity of a first conductivity-type from a first surface side of a semiconductor substrate to form second surface side regions of light reception regions at approximately even intervals in a second surface side part of the semiconductor substrate; forming device separation regions in a first surface side part of the semiconductor substrate; forming gate electrodes on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate; implanting second conductivity-type impurity on the second surface side regions of the light reception regions from the first surface side of the semiconductor substrate to form first surface side regions of the light reception regions at uneven intervals in the first surface side part of the semiconductor substrate; forming an interlayer insulating layer and wiring layers on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate; and etching the semiconductor substrate from the second surface side opposite the first surface of the semiconductor substrate to expose the second surface side regions of the light reception regions arranged at approximately even intervals in the second surface side part of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the step of implanting impurity from the first surface side of the semiconductor substrate to form the second surface side regions of the light reception regions is carried out before the step of forming the device separation regions.