SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE

摘要

A solid-state image pickup device (1) comprises: an image sensor wafer (2A) including image sensors (3); an optically-transparent protection member (4) connected by use of an adhesive agent (7) via a spacer (5) arranged to surround the image sensors (3); and an electrostatic (ESD) protection circuit (10) disposed on the image sensor wafer (2A) so as to avoid a position corresponding to a connected surface where the spacer (5) and the image sensor wafer (2A) are connected. Accordingly, in this configuration, even when polarization occurs in the adhesive agent, since the p-well layer between diffusion layers of the ESD protection circuit is not disposed immediately below the connected surface, the p-well layer is not inverted by electric charges in the element interface and thus parasitic MOS transistor does not turn on, allowing suppression of leak current.