Display device comprising first and second transistors electrically connected to first and second pixel electrodes

• US 9,989,796 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2014
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hatsumi, Ryo, Kubota, Daisuke, Miyake, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Paul
• Application Number:
  US14/467,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20150062477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,380 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133345 Insulating layers G02F1/1335, G02F1/1337, G02F1/135, G02F1/136 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133707 Structures for producing distorted electric fields, e.g. bumps, protrusions, recesses, slits in pixel electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134318 having a patterned common electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134345 Subdivided pixels, e.g. for grey scale or redundancy
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134363 for applying an electric field parallel to the substrate, i.e. in-plane switching [IPS]
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134372 for fringe field switching [FFS] where the common electrode is not patterned
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13606 having means for reducing parasitic capacitance
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13624 having more than one switching element per pixel
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/121 common or background

Abstract

A display device with less light leakage and excellent contrast is provided. A display device having a high aperture ratio and including a large-capacitance capacitor is provided. A display device in which wiring delay due to parasitic capacitance is reduced is provided. A display device includes a transistor over a substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, a signal line electrically connected to the transistor, a scan line electrically connected to the transistor and intersecting with the signal line, and a common electrode overlapping with the pixel electrode and the signal line with an insulating film provided therebetween. The common electrode includes stripe regions extending in a direction intersecting with the signal line.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a first pixel electrode;

a second pixel electrode;

a first line;

a second line;

a third line;

a first transistor electrically connected between the first pixel electrode and the second line;

a second transistor electrically connected between the second pixel electrode and the third line;

a first insulating film over the first transistor, the second transistor, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode; and

a common electrode which is over the first insulating film and overlaps with the first line,

wherein the first line and the second line intersect with each other,

wherein the first transistor and the second transistor each include part of the first line as a gate electrode,

wherein a channel region of the first transistor is formed in a first semiconductor film and a channel region of the second transistor is formed in a second semiconductor film,

wherein the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film are over the first line with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween and in contact with the gate insulating film,

wherein the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are over and in contact with the gate insulating film,

wherein the common electrode does not overlap with the channel region of the first transistor and the channel region of the second transistor,

wherein the common electrode comprises stripe regions, and

wherein the stripe regions extend in a direction intersecting with the second line and the third line and overlap with each of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode.

2. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the first transistor comprises a region which extends parallel to the first line and is in contact with the first pixel electrode, and

wherein one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second transistor comprises a region which extends parallel to the first line and is in contact with the second pixel electrode.

3. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the stripe regions and at least one of the second line and the third line intersect with each other at an angle larger than or equal to 70°

and smaller than or equal to 110°

.

4. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the first semiconductor film, the second semiconductor film, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode each comprise an In—

Ga oxide, an In—

Zn oxide, or an In-M-Zn oxide, and

wherein M represents Al, Ga, Y, Zr, La, Ce, or Nd.

5. The display device according to claim 4, further comprising a second insulating film between the first insulating film and each of the first transistor and the second transistor,

wherein the first insulating film is a nitride insulating film in contact with the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and

wherein the second insulating film is an oxide insulating film in contact with the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film.

6. The display device according to claim 5,

wherein concentration of hydrogen in each of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode is greater than or equal to 10 times concentration of hydrogen in each of the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film.

7. A display device comprising:

a first line;

a second line;

a third line;

a first pixel electrode;

a second pixel electrode;

a first transistor electrically connected between the first pixel electrode and the second line;

a second transistor electrically connected between the second pixel electrode and the third line;

a first insulating film over the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, the first transistor, and the second transistor; and

a common electrode which is over the first insulating film and overlapping with the first line,

wherein the first transistor and the second transistor each include part of the first line as a gate electrode,

wherein the first transistor comprises a first semiconductor film and the second transistor comprises a second semiconductor film,

wherein the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film are over the first line with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween and in contact with the gate insulating film,

wherein the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are over and in contact with the gate insulating film,

wherein the first line and each of the second line and the third line intersect with each other,

wherein the common electrode comprises stripe regions, and

wherein the stripe regions extend in a direction intersecting with the second line and the third line and overlap with the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode.

8. The display device according to claim 7,

wherein one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the first transistor comprises a region which extends parallel to the first line and is in contact with the first pixel electrode, and

wherein one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second transistor comprises a region which extends parallel to the first line and is in contact with the second pixel electrode.

9. The display device according to claim 7,

wherein the stripe regions and at least one of the second line and the third line intersect with each other at an angle larger than or equal to 70°

and smaller than or equal to 110°

.

10. The display device according to claim 7,

wherein the first semiconductor film, the second semiconductor film, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode each comprise an In—

Ga oxide, an In—

Zn oxide, or an In-M-Zn oxide, and

wherein M represents Al, Ga, Y, Zr, La, Ce, or Nd.

11. The display device according to claim 10, further comprising a second insulating film between the first insulating film and each of the first transistor and the second transistor,

wherein the first insulating film is a nitride insulating film in contact with the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and

wherein the second insulating film is an oxide insulating film in contact with the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film.

12. The display device according to claim 11,

wherein concentration of hydrogen in each of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode is greater than or equal to 10 times concentration of hydrogen in each of the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film.