US 7,119,857 B1Granted

Apparatus and manufacture method for flat display

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

InventorsTakafumi Nakamura, Yasuyuki Hanazawa

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Abstract

There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a flat display in which a switching element (TFT) having caused a display pixel defect can securely be repaired. The flat display of the present invention is formed by forming a semiconductor layer and an auxiliary capacity electrode in the same layer on a glass substrate, forming a gate insulating film on a top surface, forming a gate electrode and an auxiliary capacity feeder in the same layer on the top surface, forming an interlayer insulating film on a top surface, and forming a source electrode and drain electrode on a top surface. Since a wiring portion between the auxiliary capacity electrode and the pixel electrode is irradiated with laser to increase the resistance of a wiring portion, the pixel electrode fails to be influenced by a voltage of the auxiliary capacity feeder, occurrence of the display pixel defect can be reduced, and manufacture yield can be enhanced.

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Dependent claims

A flat display provided with an array substrate having an upper side and a lower side, the array substrate comprising:

signal lines and scanning lines longitudinally and transversely arranged on an insulating substrate;
a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to respective intersections of said signal lines and said scanning lines via switching elements;
a plurality of auxiliary capacity electrodes electrically connected to said switching elements;
and an auxiliary capacity feeder disposed opposite to said auxiliary capacity electrode via an insulating layer, said flat display comprising:
a first wiring layer electrically connected to said auxiliary capacity electrode;
a second wiring layer electrically connected to source electrodes of said switching elements and said first wiring layer;
and
a third wiring layer electrically connected to said pixel electrode and the source electrodes of said switching elements,
wherein said first wiring layer is formed on a layer closer to the lower side of the array substrate than the second wiring layer and the second wiring layer is formed on a layer closer to the upper side of the array substrate than the first wiring layer, and a length of said first wiring layer is set to be equal to that of the second wiring layer.

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