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Masanao Kobayashi

Masami Hayashi

Masaru Aoki

A highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device is provided with a thin film field-effect transistor having a channel region and includes a substrate and a semiconductor film. The semiconductor film is formed on the substrate and includes the channel region of the thin film field-effect transistor. An upper surface of the semiconductor film is planarized by removing a surface layer of the semiconductor film.

Method of producing crystalline semiconductor film and semiconductor device from the film

A liquid crystal display apparatus in which an arrangement possibly susceptible to degradation in display quality by a miss shot of a laser used for turning amorphous silicon into polycrystalline silicon is avoided and a narrow peripheral frame can be attained. A gate interconnection for transistors in a driving circuit area is arranged along a folded line having two lines extending in two different directions and a bent portion. Channel regions of the transistors are arranged along the two lines, such that the channel regions do not overlap the bent portion.

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Nagano, Japan

Masanao Kobayashi