Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Advanced Display, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Ken Nakashima

Kazuhiro Kobayashi

Yuichi Masutani

Nobuhiro Nakamura

Yasunori Niwano

Yuuzou Oodoi

Kazunori Inoue

Takuji Yoshida

Hiroyuki Murai

Masaya Mizunuma

Hironori Aoki

Akira Tamatani

Yasushi Matsui

Takehisa Yamaguchi

Yoshinori Numano

Satoru Kawamoto

Yoshimitsu Ishikawa

Hiromasa Morita

A thin film transistor array substrate including an insulating substrate, a first metallic pattern formed on the insulating substrate, and an insulating film provided on the first metallic pattern. A semiconductor pattern is provided on the insulating film, and a second metallic pattern is provided on the semiconductor pattern. The second metallic pattern is surrounded by the semiconductor pattern.

Liquid crystal display

An In Plane Switching (IPS) liquid crystal displaying apparatus includes a TFT array substrate, an opposite substrate opposed to the TFT array substrate and a liquid crystal interposed between the TFT array substrate and the opposite substrate. The TFT array substrate includes a plurality of driving electrodes formed on a passivation film and connected with the plurality of TFTs, a plurality of opposite electrodes formed on the passivation film, each of the plurality of opposite electrodes opposing the respective plurality of driving electrodes, and a plurality of common lines configured to connect each of the plurality of opposite electrodes with each of a plurality of pixels. The TFT array substrate provided with a light shielding formed in such a manner as to superpose one signal line of the plurality of signal lines and one opposite electrode of the plurality of opposite electrodes.

In plane switching liquid crystal displaying apparatus for improved luminance including a thin film transistor array substrate

A high-precision patterning is conducted with a half-tone resist thickness being prevented from varying due to the presence/absence of a base film. A transmitting portion and two kinds of semi-transmitting portions, providing different quantities of transmitted light, are provided in a photomask for exposing a resist, and a smaller-transimitting-light-quantity semi-transmitting portion is used in a base film-present area and a large-transmitting light-quantity semi-transmitting portion is used in a base-film-free area to regulate luminous exposure while exposing, thereby forming a half-tone resist having uniform thickness.

Method of patterning a thin film transistor that includes simultaneously forming a gate electrode and a pixel electrode

In the halftone region of a photomask, uniformity in thickness of the photoresist is enhanced. The halftone region of the photomask is arranged such that a transmitting portion and a shielding portion are alternately provided to form a transmitting/shielding pattern. The transmitting portion at the end of the transmitting/shielding pattern has a larger area than the other transmitting portion.

Method of manufacturing TFT array

An IPS liquid crystal displaying apparatus includes: a TFT array substrate, an opposite substrate opposed to the TFT array substrate and liquid crystal interposed between the TFT array substrate and the opposite substrate, wherein the TFT array substrate is composed of a glass substrate, a gate insulating film formed on the glass substrate, a possivation film formed on the gate insulating film, a plurality of scanning lines for transmitting a scanning signal, a plurality of signal lines for transmitting an image signal, a plurality of pixels arranged in grid like pattern by crossing the plurality of scanning lines with the plurality of signal lines, a plurality of TFTs implementing switching operation of the image signal on the basis of the scanning signals, a plurality of driving electrodes connected with the TFT, a plurality of opposite electrodes arranged in such a manner that each of the plurality of opposite electrodes is opposed to each of the driving electrodes, and a plurality of common lines for mutually connecting each of the opposite electrode of one of the plurality of pixels with the other one of the plurality of pixels, wherein the TFT array substrate is formed on the passivation film, the passivation film being different from a layer provided with the driving electrode and the opposite electrode.

In plane switching liquid crystal displaying apparatus for improved luminance

A semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device is provided with a pixel electrode having in one pixel a reflective electrode reflecting outside light, and a transmissive electrode transmitting light from a back light source, on one of a pair of substrates facing to each other with a liquid crystal film placed in between. The reflective electrode and the transmissive electrode constituting the pixel electrode are formed without having a insulation layer in between. A manufacturing process thereof is simplified by halftone exposure.

Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof

A fabrication method of a thin film transistor array substrate includes a step of forming a gate insulation film, a semiconductor layer, an ohmic layer, and a metal film on the insulating substrate on which the gate line is formed, a step of forming a resist pattern on the metal film by a photolithography process so that its thickness is thinner on the corresponding section to the semiconductor active layer than on the other sections, a step of etching the metal film to form the source line, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, a step of removing the ohmic layer and the semiconductor layer after removing the resist on the corresponding section to the semiconductor active layer, a step of removing the metal film, and a step of removing the ohmic layer.

Thin film transistor array, fabrication method thereof, and liquid crystal display device employing the same

In plane switching liquid crystal displaying apparatus for improving luminance

A liquid crystal display of the present invention includes: a pair of substrates, at least one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer being interposed between said pair of substrates; electrodes for applying an electric field to liquid crystals molecules in said liquid crystal layer; active switching elements connected with said electrodes; an alignment film being formed on a surface of at least one of said pair of substrates, said surface being contacted with said liquid crystal layer; and an optical device for controlling a transmission of light in cooperation with alignment of said liquid crystal molecules in each pixel, said means being located on at least one said pair of substrates; wherein an aligning direction of each liquid crystal molecule in each pixel is ranged between &minus;2 degrees to &plus;2 degrees with respect to an average aligning direction &thgr; of said liquid crystal layer.

Plane switching liquid crystal displaying apparatus for improved luminance

A liquid crystal displaying apparatus which is high in displaying quantity is provided, wherein the displaying quantity reduction such as flickering, image sticking, ununiformly displaying and so on which is caused due to changes for each exposing region of the &Dgr;Vgd. In the liquid crystal displaying apparatus of the present invention, a plurality of scanning wirings and a plurality of signal wirings, TFTs and pixel electrodes are formed. Storage capacitance for retaining the electric charge is connected with the pixel electrode, another electrode opposite to an electrode for forming the storage capacitance and the drain electrode of the TFT are formed at the same time, an array substrate where another electrode is superposed on the scanning wiring and the signal wiring through the transparent insulating film, and a liquid crystal displaying provided with an counter substrate having a common electrode to be arranged opposite to the pixel electrode. The change in the &Dgr;Vgd due to changes in the Cgd to be caused for each exposing area is compensated by changing the Cs value for each exposing region.

Active matrix LCD in which a change in the storage capacitance Cs due to having multiple exposure regions is compensated for by a change in the coupling capacitance Cgd

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Ken Nakashima