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Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof

Granted 6 May 2014 · 4 office actions

Current assignee: Japan Display · originally Panasonic

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Inventors: Hidekazu Nitta, Hidekazu Miyake, Takuo Kaitoh · Examiner: Mark Teets

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Abstract

A liquid crystal display device intended for increasing the ON-current of a TFT in the pixel while suppressing variation of the ON-current, in which a semiconductor layer and a first n + -a-Si layer in the TFT are formed continuously by plasma CVD. The semiconductor layer and the first n + -a-Si layer are patterned simultaneously. Then, a second n + -a-Si layer is formed so as to cover the upper surface of the first n + -a-Si layer and the side portion of the semiconductor layer. The ON-current can be increased and variation of the ON-current of the TFT can be decreased by forming the first n + -a-Si layer continuously over the semiconductor layer.

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IPC · International Patent Classification
Section G — Physics
  • G02F1/136
USPC · US Patent Classification
349/43349/42

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related publicationUS 20120081628 A15 Apr 2012

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