Touch panel, TFT-LCD array substrate and manufacturing method thereof

• US 8,936,975 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2014
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Huang, Yinglong, Wang, Zheng
• Primary Examiner(s): NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J
• Application Number:
  US14/177,874
• Publication Number:
  US 20140162415A1
• Time in Patent Office: 343 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 438/158
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1214 comprising a plurality of TFTs formed on a non-semiconducting substrate, e.g. driving circuits for AMLCDs
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/124 with a particular composition, shape or layout of the wiring layers specially adapted to the circuit arrangement, e.g. scanning lines in LCD pixel circuits wiring structures per se H01L23/52
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1259 Multistep manufacturing methods
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1288 employing particular masking sequences or specially adapted masks, e.g. half-tone mask

Abstract

A touch display comprising a first substrate formed with a common electrode; a second substrate formed with a gate line and a data line, wherein a first thin film transistor and a pixel electrode is provided in a pixel region defined by the gate line and the data line and the pixel region and the common electrode form a liquid crystal capacitor; a touch element provided in the pixel region in the second substrate and used to sense a touch voltage reflecting the change of the liquid crystal capacitance at a touch point; and a touch processing device connected with the touch element and used to obtaining a position coordinates of the touch point according to the touch voltage.

Claims

1. A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) array substrate comprises,

Step 1, depositing a gate metal film on a substrate, forming a gate line, a common electrode line, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a third gate electrode and a first connecting electrode, wherein the first gate electrode and the third gate electrode are connecting with the gate line, and the second gate electrode is connected with the first connecting electrode;

Step 2, depositing a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor film, a doped semiconductor film and a source/drain metal film on the substrate after step 1, forming a data line, a power supply line, a signal line, a first active layer, a first source electrode, a first drain electrode, a first TFT channel region, a second active layer, a second source electrode, a second drain electrode, a second TFT channel region, a third active layer, a third source electrode, a third drain electrode, a third TFT channel region and a second connecting electrode by a patterning process, wherein the first drain electrode is connected with the second connecting electrode and the second drain electrode is connected with the third drain electrode;

Step 3, depositing a passivation layer on the substrate after step 2, and forming a first through hole, a second through hole and a third though hole, wherein the first through hole is located above the first connecting electrode, the second through hole is located above the second connecting electrode, and the third though hole is located above the first drain electrode; and

Step 4, depositing a transparent conductive film on the substrate after step 3, forming a pixel electrode and a third connecting electrode, wherein the pixel electrode is connected with the first drain electrode via the third through hole and the third connecting electrode is connected with the first connecting electrode and the second connecting electrode via the first through hole and the second through hole, respectively.

2. The manufacturing method of the TFT-LCD array substrate of claim 1, wherein, the step 2 comprises,

depositing the gate insulating layer, the semiconductor layer and the doped semiconductor layer sequentially on the substrate after Step 1 by a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition;

depositing the source/drain metal by a magnetic sputtering or thermal evaporation method on the substrate after the above step;

applying a layer of photoresist on the source/drain metal film;

exposing the photoresist with a half tone or grey tone mask so as to form a photoresist-completely-remained region, a photoresist-completely-removed region and a photoresist-partially-remained region, wherein the photoresist-completely-remained region corresponds to a region in which the data line, the power supply line, the signal line, the first source electrode, the first drain electrode, the second source electrode, the second drain electrode, the third source electrode, the third drain electrode and the second connecting electrode are located, the photoresist-partially-remained region corresponds to a region in which the first TFT channel region, the second TFT channel region and the third TFT channel region are located, and the photoresist-completely-removed region corresponds to a region other than the above-mentioned regions;

after developing, the thickness of the photoresist in the photoresist-completely-remained region remains unchanged, the photoresist in the photoresist-completely-removed region is removed completely, and the thickness of the photoresist in the photoresist-partially-remained region is decreased;

etching away the source/drain metal film, the doped semiconductor film and the semiconductor film in the photoresist-completely-removed region by a first etching process so as to form the first active layer, the second active layer, the third active layer, the data line, the power supply line and the signal line;

removing the photoresist in the photoresist-partially-remained region by an ashing process so as to expose the source/drain metal film;

etching away the source/drain metal film and the doped semiconductor film and partially etching the semiconductor film in the photoresist-partially-remained by a second etching process so as to expose the semiconductor film in the region and form the first source electrode, the first drain electrode, the first TFT channel region, the second source electrode, the second drain electrode, the second TFT channel region, the third source electrode, the third drain electrode, the third TFT channel region and the second connecting electrode; and

removing the remained photoresist.

3. The manufacturing method of the TFT-LCD array substrate of claim 1, wherein, the step 2 comprises,

depositing the gate insulating layer, the semiconductor film and the doped semiconductor film sequentially by a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition method on the substrate after Step 1;

forming the first active layer, the second active layer and the third active layer by a patterning process with a normal mask;

depositing the source/drain metal film on the substrate after the above steps by a magnetic sputtering or thermal evaporation method; and

forming the data line, the power supply line, the signal line, the first source electrode, the first drain electrode, the first TFT channel region, the second source electrode, the second drain electrode, the second TFT channel region, the third source electrode, the third drain electrode, the third TFT channel region and the second connecting electrode by a patterning process with a normal mask.