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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2001
Ivan Wu, Taipei, TW;
Dai-Liang Ting, Hsinchu, TW;
Unipac Optoelectronics Corp., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
The invention provides a method for forming a multi-gap liquid crystal display. The method includes providing a substrate. A first insulating layer is formed on the substrate. Several bus lines are formed on the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed on the first insulating layer and the bus lines. The bus lines divides the substrate into a first color region, a second color region, and a third color region. A photoresist layer covers the second color region and the third color region, where the photoresist layer at the second color region is thinner than that at the third color region. A portion of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer is etched to expose the substrate at the first color region. A portion of the photoresist layer at the second color region is removed, whereby the second insulating layer is exposed and the remaining photoresist layer still covers the third color region and the bus lines. The second insulating layer is etched to expose the first insulating at the second color region, using the remaining photoresist layer as a mask. Alternatively, the first step of etching can only remove a portion or the whole of the second insulating layer in the first color region, and then the second step of etching removes the first insulating layer to expose the substrate.