Patents Represented by Attorney Innovation Consel LLP
  • Patent number: 8189131
    Abstract: A thin-film transistor (TFT) includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor pattern, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The semiconductor pattern includes an active layer being overlapped with the gate electrode and a low band gap portion having a lower energy band gap than the active layer. The source and drain electrodes are spaced apart from each other to be overlapped with the semiconductor pattern. Therefore, the semiconductor pattern includes a low band gap portion having a lower energy band gap than the active layer, so that electron mobility may be increased in a channel formed along the low band gap portion so that electric characteristics of the TFT may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kap-Soo Yoon, Sung-Hoon Yang, Sung-Ryul Kim, Hwa-Yeul Oh, Jae-Ho Choi, Yong-Mo Choi