Patent ID: 7638352

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a photoelectric conversion device having a photoelectric conversion element, a transistor for reading out a signal from the photoelectric conversion element, and a multilayered interconnection structure disposed on a semiconductor substrate, the method comprising steps of: forming an interlayer insulation film of the multilayered interconnection structure on the photoelectric conversion element and the transistor; forming a hole in a region of the interlayer insulation film corresponding to an electrode of the transistor; burying an electrocondutive substance in the hole; forming a hydrogen supplying film, which has a refractive index different from that of the interlayer insulation film, over an entirety of the interlayer insulation film and the electrocondutive substance; conducting a thermal processing at a first temperature to supply hydrogen from the hydrogen supplying film to the semiconductor substrate; removing by etching a region of the hydrogen supplying film corresponding to the photoelectric conversion element; after the conducting of the thermal processing to supply the hydrogen, forming a wiring of the multilayered interconnection structure using Cu as a wiring material; forming a diffusion suppressing film, which has a refractive index different from that of the interlayer insulation film, for suppressing a diffusion of the Cu in the wiring material of the wiring of the multilayered interconnection structure, the diffusion suppressing film being formed above an entirety of the wiring and the interlayer insulation film of the multilayered interconnection structure; removing by etching a region of the diffusion suppressing film corresponding to the photoelectric conversion element; and forming a protective film covering the multilayered interconnection structure, wherein the steps of the method are conducted in an order as presented above, and the step of forming the wiring of the multilayered interconnection structure and the step of forming the protective film are conducted at a temperature not higher than the first temperature, so as not to cause an electromigration of the Cu of the wiring material of the wiring, and wherein the diffusion suppressing film operates also as an etching stop film in an etching of the interlayer insulation film, and the diffusion suppressing film has a larger etch rate in an etching of the interlayer insulation film than an etch rate of the hydrogen supplying film.