Patent ID: 8551801

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a solid-state image pickup device, the solid-state image pickup device including a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, and a peripheral circuit portion in the vicinity of the pixel portion and including a transistor, each of the plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element and a transistor, the method comprising: forming gate electrodes of the transistors in the pixel portion and the peripheral circuit portion; forming a first insulating film in the pixel portion and the peripheral circuit portion; forming a second insulating film above the first insulating film in the pixel portion and the peripheral circuit portion; etching the second insulating film in the photoelectric conversion elements; forming a metal film on the etched second insulating film in the photoelectric conversion elements and on the second insulating film in the peripheral circuit portion; and removing the metal film in the peripheral circuit portion, and forming light-shielding films from the metal film in the photoelectric conversion elements.