Image display device having a drive circuit employing improved active elements
First Claim
1. An image display device having an active matrix substrate provided with a pixel region having a large number of pixels arranged in a matrix configuration, and a drive circuit region disposed outside of said pixel region for supplying drive signals to said large number of pixels via interconnection lines, wherein said drive circuit region comprises a plurality of stages of circuit sections successively processing an externally supplied display signal to produce a drive signal to be supplied to said pixel region, each of said plurality of stages of circuit sections having a different function, at least one of said plurality of stages of circuit sections is provided with active elements fabricated in discontinuous converted regions formed of roughly-band-shaped-crystal silicon films having grain boundaries continuous in generally one direction, and said active elements have a direction of movement of carriers therein in a direction of said grain boundaries.
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Abstract
An image display device has an active matrix substrate provided with a drive circuit formed of high-performance active elements such as thin film transistors which operate with high mobility for driving pixel sections arranged in a matrix configuration. The image display device has discontinuous converted regions (virtual tiles) TL formed of roughly-band-shaped-crystal silicon films in circuit sections constituting a drive circuit DDR disposed around a pixel region PAR on the active matrix substrate SUB1, and has the drive circuit DDR formed of active elements such as thin film transistors fabricated in the discontinuous converted regions TL with their channel direction in a direction of growth direction of the roughly-band-shaped-crystal silicon films.
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1. An image display device having an active matrix substrate provided with a pixel region having a large number of pixels arranged in a matrix configuration, and a drive circuit region disposed outside of said pixel region for supplying drive signals to said large number of pixels via interconnection lines,
wherein said drive circuit region comprises a plurality of stages of circuit sections successively processing an externally supplied display signal to produce a drive signal to be supplied to said pixel region, each of said plurality of stages of circuit sections having a different function, at least one of said plurality of stages of circuit sections is provided with active elements fabricated in discontinuous converted regions formed of roughly-band-shaped-crystal silicon films having grain boundaries continuous in generally one direction, and said active elements have a direction of movement of carriers therein in a direction of said grain boundaries.
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