Active matrix substrate and display device

• US 9,551,910 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2010
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unified Innovative Technology, LLC
• Original Assignee: Unified Innovative Technology, LLC
• Inventors: Nakahara, Hijiri
• Primary Examiner(s): CHANG, CHARLES S
• Application Number:
  US13/498,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20120182274A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,443 Days
• Field of Search: 349 38- 39
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136213 Storage capacitors associated with the pixel electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136295 Materials; Compositions; Manufacture processes

Abstract

An active matrix substrate 5 is provided with: a plurality of source wiring lines and a plurality of gate wiring lines, which are arranged in a matrix pattern; and picture elements, each of which has a thin film transistor provided in the vicinity of a part where each source wiring line and each gate wiring line intersect each other, and a picture element electrode 26 connected to the thin film transistor. In the active matrix substrate, a base member 5a is provided such that the source wiring lines and the gate wiring lines intersect each other, and on the base member 5a, the connecting portion 28a of an auxiliary capacitor electrode and the connecting portion 29a of an auxiliary capacitor wiring line are connected to each other by having therebetween a nitride film 33 composed of a high melting point metal material.

Claims

1. An active matrix substrate for use as a substrate of a display panel, comprising:

a base member;

a plurality of data wiring lines and a plurality of scan wiring lines on the base member, which are arranged in a matrix pattern;

a plurality of picture elements on the base member, each picture element including a picture element electrode connected to a switching element;

an auxiliary capacitor electrode formed from a transparent electrically conductive film; and

an auxiliary capacitor wiring line comprising an aluminum alloy,

wherein said auxiliary capacitor electrode and said auxiliary capacitor wiring line are electrically connected to each other via a metal material film comprising nitride interposed between said auxiliary capacitor electrode and said auxiliary capacitor wiring line, and

wherein an auxiliary capacitance generates between said auxiliary capacitor electrode and the picture element electrode of said picture element.

2. The active matrix substrate according to claim 1, wherein a high melting point metal material having a melting point greater than or equal to 1,000°

C. is used as said metal material.

3. The active matrix substrate according to claim 1, wherein said metal material film contains nitrogen at a concentration greater than or equal to 5 percent by weight and less than or equal to 90 percent by weight.

4. The active matrix substrate according to claim 1, wherein, at the location of connection between said auxiliary capacitor electrode and said auxiliary capacitor wiring line, said auxiliary capacitor wiring line is arranged above said auxiliary capacitor electrode, and said auxiliary capacitor wiring line is connected to said auxiliary capacitor electrode with said metal material film interposed therebetween.

5. The active matrix substrate according to claim 1, wherein a said auxiliary capacitor wiring line includes at least one of carbon, silicon, cobalt, nickel, germanium, rhodium, palladium, and tin as an additive.

6. The active matrix substrate according to claim 5, wherein the total content of the additive in said auxiliary capacitor wiring line is greater than or equal to 0.2 percent by weight and less than or equal to 5.0 percent by weight.

7. The active matrix substrate according to claim 1, wherein said scan wiring line is formed from the same material as said auxiliary capacitor wiring line.

8. A display device comprising a display part, wherein said active matrix substrate according to claim 1 is included in said display part.

9. The active matrix substrate according to claim 1, further comprising a light-shielding block configured to suppress light leakage between two adjacent picture elements.

10. The active matrix substrate according to claim 9, wherein the light-shielding block is located near edge parts of two adjacent picture element electrodes to block light at the edges thereof.

11. The active matrix substrate according to claim 9, wherein the metal material film comprising nitride is interposed between the base member and the light-shielding block.

12. The active matrix substrate according to claim 9, wherein the light-shielding block is formed from the same material as the auxiliary capacitor wiring line and the scan wiring lines.

13. The active matrix substrate according to claim 9, wherein the data wiring line includes a first wide part covering a first separation region between the scan wiring line and the light-shielding block.

14. The active matrix substrate according to claim 9, wherein the data wiring line further includes a second wide part covering a second separation region between the auxiliary capacitor wiring line and the light-shielding block.

15. The active matrix substrate according to claim 9, wherein the data wiring line further includes a third wide part covering a third separation region between the auxiliary capacitor wiring line and the scan wiring line.

16. The active matrix substrate according to claim 1, wherein the metal material film comprising nitride is interposed between the base member and the scan wiring lines.

17. The active matrix substrate according to claim 16, wherein the picture element electrode is on the scan wiring lines, and an insulating film is between the picture element electrode and the scan wiring lines.

18. The active matrix substrate according to claim 17, wherein the source wiring line and the picture element electrode are mutually separated in a vertical direction.

19. The active matrix substrate according to claim 1, wherein the metal material film comprising nitride is between a connecting portion of the auxiliary capacitor electrode and a connecting portion of the auxiliary capacitor wiring line.

20. The active matrix substrate according to claim 19, wherein the connecting portion of the auxiliary capacitor electrode and the connecting portion of the auxiliary capacitor wiring line are connected electrically through the metal material film comprising nitride.