Abstract: An active matrix type liquid crystal display device with a short-circuiting wire for mutually short-circuiting address wires and data wires through the medium of resistors made of a thin-film transistor is formed along the periphery of a display region on an insulating substrate. The short-circuiting wire is electrically connected inside a region in which the resistors made of a thin-film transistor are formed. In one embodiment, the transistors are surrounded by a portion of the shod circuiting wire. In another embodiment, they are partially surrounded by the wire with a gate electrode which is not protruding out. In another embodiment they are formed with two source and drain regions, one which has a lower breakdown voltage than the other.

Abstract: A multi-layered conductor structure device has a substrate, a first conductor layer formed on the substrate, which provides an electrode or wiring, and an insulating film covering the first conductor layer and the substrate. On the insulating film, a second conductor layer is formed which comprises an indium tin oxide, and which provides an electrode or wiring. The first conductor layer is formed of an alloy of aluminum with copper, gold, boron, bismuth, cobalt, chromium, germanium, iron, molybdenum, niobium, nickel, palladium, platinum, tantalum, titanium, tungsten, and/or silver.