Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a large holding capacitance in the inside of a pixel. A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate in an opposed manner, and liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a video signal line, a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor having a first electrode thereof connected to the video signal line and a second electrode thereof connected to the pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the second electrode, an organic insulation film formed above the first silicon nitride film, a capacitance electrode formed above the organic insulation film, and a second silicon nitride film formed above the capacitance electrode and below the pixel electrode. The second silicon nitride film is a film which is formed at a temperature lower than a forming temperature of the first silicon nitride film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a large holding capacitance in the inside of a pixel. A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate in an opposed manner, and liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a video signal line, a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor having a first electrode thereof connected to the video signal line and a second electrode thereof connected to the pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the second electrode, an organic insulation film formed above the first silicon nitride film, a capacitance electrode formed above the organic insulation film, and a second silicon nitride film formed above the capacitance electrode and below the pixel electrode. The second silicon nitride film is a film which is formed at a temperature lower than a forming temperature of the first silicon nitride film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a large holding capacitance in the inside of a pixel. A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate in an opposed manner, and liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a video signal line, a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor having a first electrode thereof connected to the video signal line and a second electrode thereof connected to the pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the second electrode, an organic insulation film formed above the first silicon nitride film, a capacitance electrode formed above the organic insulation film, and a second silicon nitride film formed above the capacitance electrode and below the pixel electrode. The second silicon nitride film is a film which is formed at a temperature lower than a forming temperature of the first silicon nitride film.

Abstract: To take measures against defects in the conduction by preventing shavings of the orientation film from getting into the terminal portion for liquid crystal display devices using an organic passivation film on a TFT substrate. Image signal lines 107 extend to a terminal portion. The image signal lines 107, excluding the terminal portion, are covered with an inorganic passivation film 108 and an organic passivation film 109. In the terminal portion, terminal portion through holes are created in the organic passivation film 109 and the inorganic passivation film 108, in order to make electrical connection possible. The terminal portion is covered with an ITO film 120 in order to protect the video signal lines 107.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second opposed facing substrates and liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween. The first substrate includes a thin film transistor having a first electrode thereof connected to a video signal line and a second electrode thereof connected to a pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film, an organic insulation film, a capacitance electrode, and a second silicon nitride film. The second silicon nitride film is formed at a temperature lower than a forming temperature of the first silicon nitride film. The second electrode and the pixel electrode are connected to each other via a contact hole formed by the first and second silicon nitride films. A potential different from a potential applied to the pixel electrode is applied to the capacitance electrode, and a holding capacitance is formed by the pixel electrode, the second silicon nitride film and the capacitance electrode.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device disposed with reflective regions and transmissive regions, two organic insulating films are formed on a connection terminal portion and radial non-uniformities are prevented from occurring when applying the upper organic insulating film. Pixel portions including transmissive regions and reflective regions are formed, and a second organic insulating film is formed between a metal layer that forms reflective electrodes and a transparent conductive film that forms pixel electrodes to planarize concavo-convexities in the reflective electrodes. In contact holes of a connection terminal portion, the inclination of a first organic resin film is made smooth to control the occurrence of radial non-uniformities occurring in the second organic insulating film.

Abstract: (Object) To take measures against defects in the conduction by preventing shavings of the orientation film from getting into the terminal portion for liquid crystal display devices using an organic passivation film on a TFT substrate. (Means for Achieving Object) Image signal lines 107 extend to a terminal portion. The image signal lines 107, excluding the terminal portion, are covered with an inorganic passivation film 108 and an organic passivation film 109. In the terminal portion, terminal portion through holes are created in the organic passivation film 109 and the inorganic passivation film 108, in order to make electrical connection possible. The terminal portion is covered with an ITO film 120 in order to protect the video signal lines 107.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device disposed with reflective regions and transmissive regions, two organic insulating films are formed on a connection terminal portion and radial non-uniformities are prevented from occurring when applying the upper organic insulating film. Pixel portions including transmissive regions and reflective regions are formed, and a second organic insulating film is formed between a metal layer that forms reflective electrodes and a transparent conductive film that forms pixel electrodes to planarize concavo-convexities in the reflective electrodes. In contact holes of a connection terminal portion, the inclination of a first organic resin film is made smooth to control the occurrence of radial non-uniformities occurring in the second organic insulating film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a large holding capacitance in the inside of a pixel. A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate in an opposed manner, and liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a video signal line, a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor having a first electrode thereof connected to the video signal line and a second electrode thereof connected to the pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the second electrode, an organic insulation film formed above the first silicon nitride film, a capacitance electrode formed above the organic insulation film, and a second silicon nitride film formed above the capacitance electrode and below the pixel electrode. The second silicon nitride film is a film which is formed at a temperature lower than a forming temperature of the first silicon nitride film.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device with a reflective area and a transmissive area, a reflective electrode and a transmissive electrode are manufactured without an extra process. A metal layer that forms the reflective electrode and a transparent conductive film that forms the transmissive electrode are successively laminated on pixels, each having the transmissive area and the reflective area. A resist film is exposed to light followed by development to form a first pattern so as to simultaneously etch the metal layer and the transparent conductive film. Thereafter, ashing is used to form a second pattern in the resist film so as to etch the metal layer. An organic resin layer is used as a mask to form a contact hole.

Abstract: At terminal portions, the occurrence of electrolytic corrosion can be suppressed and, at the same time, the connection resistance between the terminal portions and other electrodes to be connected is largely reduced. On a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other by way of liquid crystal, signal lines, an insulation film covering the signal lines, terminal portions having one portions of the signal lines exposed by forming holes in the insulation film, and conductive oxide films laminated to the terminal portions are formed. The conductive oxide films are laminated to peripheries of the terminal portions except for the centers of the terminal portions.

Abstract: The method of fabrication of a liquid crystal display device includes the steps of: forming a metal thin film on a glass substrate; forming a resist pattern on the metal thin film by photolithography; and wet-etching the metal thin film with an etchant formed of a mixture including phosphoric acid, nitric acid in a range between 7 mol % and 12 mol % inclusive, and at least one of ammonium fluoride and hydrogen fluoride in a trace amount of about 0.01 to 0.1 mol %.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising a wiring line of a laminated structure over an insulating substrate. The laminated structure includes a first layer made of a first metal layer, and a second layer formed over the first layer and made of a second metal layer having the same principal component as that of the first metal layer but a different added element and/or a different composition. The first layer has a side end face of a right-tapered shape, whereas the second layer has a side end face set at a right angle or counter-tapered with respect to the substrate face.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is high in manufacturing yield because defects caused by short-circuiting between the electrodes are eliminated. The liquid crystal display apparatus employs films made of an Al—Nd alloy of Nd content of 1 to 4.5 wt % in at least one of the gate wiring and the data wiring.

Abstract: A photoresist 10 is exposed to light from behind a substrate by using as photomask a wiring electrodes 2 and 4 and a switching element 8 which are individually composed of an opaque member, whereby a passivation layer 9 for the switching element 8 is patterned. By virtue of this method, a photomask becomes unnecessary and jogs of the passivation layer 9 can be formed outside the transparent pixel electrode 7. Therefore, an unsatisfactory orientation of a liquid crystal can be made invisible without enlarging the black matrix of a counter substrate. Furthermore, since a passivation layer can be removed in portions not requiring the passivation layer, image-sticking can be reduced and the quality of displayed picture can be greatly improved. The present invention makes it possible to reduce the number of photomasks used for production of an actively addressing substrate and improve the picture quality of a liquid crystal display.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display substrate in which the pixel electrode is applied with a voltage through the drain and source of a thin-film transistor (TFT) that conducts by a voltage applied to the TFT gate electrode, this gate electrode and a busline connected to the gate electrode are formed as a multi-layered structure consisting of a gate layer and at least two layers of a gate insulation film and an amorphous silicon film. The multi-layered structure is formed by etching through a single mask.

Abstract: A photoresist 10 is exposed to light from behind a substrate by using as photomask a wiring electrodes 2 and 4 and a switching element 8 which are individually composed of an opaque member, whereby a passivation layer 9 for the switching element 8 is patterned. By virtue of this method, a photomask becomes unnecessary and jogs of the passivation layer 9 can be formed outside the transparent pixel electrode 7. Therefore, an unsatisfactory orientation of a liquid crystal can be made invisible without enlarging the black matrix of a counter substrate. Furthermore, since a passivation layer can be removed in portions not requiring the passivation layer, image-sticking can be reduced and the quality of displayed picture can be greatly improved. The present invention makes it possible to reduce the number of photomasks used for production of an actively addressing substrate and improve the picture quality of a liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A method for driving a liquid crystal display unit is arranged to apply positive-polarity signals to drains of thin film transistors of active matrix liquid crystal elements during an interval of a 1/n field and to apply negative-polarity signals to the drains during an interval of a next 1/n field. This method does not need to invert a common electrode voltage V.sub.com and a signal voltage V.sub.D at each scan period (1H). This contributes to easier design of a voltage-alternating circuit for V.sub.D or V.sub.com and reduces flicker resulting from the inversed voltage on an overall screen.

Abstract: An active matrix reflective type liquid crystal display is provided which is obtained by an easy alignment of the respective layers of the display, and the use of small TFTs and a reduced number of manufacturing steps. Each TFT comprises a drain electrode which comprises an area where a scanning conductor and a signal conductor concerned intersect, a source electrode which comprises an area where a short-circuiting conductor concerned parallel to the signal conductor and the associated scanning conductor concerned intersect, a gate electrode which comprises an area provided between the drain and source electrodes concerned on the scanning conductor and a reflective electrode concerned provided at an end of the short-circuiting conductor concerned.

Abstract: A high-speed scanning method uses a K(K.gtoreq.3)-number of semiconductor switch elements each having a first main electrode responsive to an input signal, a second main electrode, and a control electrode responsive to a control signal for controlling the transmissive and intransmissive states of said input signal from the first main electrode to the second main electrode; and capacitive loads connected respectively with the second main electrode of each of said K-number of semiconductor switch elements, for shifting one of the K-number of semiconductor switch elements sequentially with a predetermined period from the transmissive state to the intransmissive state or vice versa, wherein, the time, for which an arbitary L(K>L.gtoreq.