Transmission type liquid crystal display device with connecting electrode and pixel electrode connected via contact hole through interlayer insulating film and method for fabricating

• US 6,052,162 A
• Filed: 08/12/1996
• Issued: 04/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Masaya, Shimada, Takayuki, Yamamoto, Akihiro, Katayama, Mikio, Shimada, Yoshinori, Kajitani, Masaru, Nishiki, Hirohiko, Nakata, Yukinobu, Kondo, Naofumi, Sakuhana, Yoshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Sikes, William L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOWDHURY, TARIFUR RASHID
• Application Number:
  US08/695,632
• Time in Patent Office: 1,345 Days
• Field of Search: 349/38, 349/39, 349/43, 349/139, 349/44, 349/42
• US Class Current: 349/38
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133345 Insulating layers G02F1/1335, G02F1/1337, G02F1/135, G02F1/136 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13606 having means for reducing parasitic capacitance
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136209 Light shielding layers, e.g. black matrix, incorporated in the active matrix substrate, e.g. structurally associated with the switching element
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136213 Storage capacitors associated with the pixel electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136227 Through-hole connection of the pixel electrode to the active element through an insulation layer
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/40 Arrangements for improving the aperture ratio

Abstract

The transmission type liquid crystal display device of this invention includes: gate lines; source lines; and switching elements each arranged near a crossing of each gate line and each source line, a gate electrode of each switching element being connected to the gate line, a source electrode of the switching element being connected to the source line, and a drain electrode of the switching element being connected to a pixel electrode for applying a voltage to a liquid crystal layer, wherein an interlayer insulating film formed of an organic film with high transparency is provided above the switching element, the gate line, and the source line, and wherein the pixel electrode formed of a transparent conductive film is provided on the interlayer insulating film.

Claims

1. A transmission type liquid crystal display device comprising:

a plurality of lines including gate lines and source lines, wherein at least one of the plurality of lines is at least partially light-shading;

switching elements each arranged near a crossing of each gate line and each source line, a gate electrode of each switching element being connected to the gate line, a source electrode of the switching element being connected to the source line, and a drain electrode of the switching element being connected to a pixel electrode for applying a voltage to a liquid crystal layer, wherein;

an interlayer organic insulating film has high transparency and is above the switching element, the gate line and the source line; and

the display device further comprises a connecting electrode connected to the drain electrode and to the pixel electrode via a contact hole through the interlayer organic insulating film between the connecting electrode and the pixel electrode, and wherein the connecting electrode is on the light-shading part of the at least one of the plurality of lines.

2. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the interlayer organic insulating film is made of a photosensitive acrylic resin.

3. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the interlayer organic insulating film is made of a decolored resin.

4. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the pixel electrode and at least one of the source line and the gate line overlap each other by 1 μ

m or more in a line width direction.

5. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the interlayer organic insulating film is about 1.5 μ

m or more.

6. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the connecting electrode is formed of a transparent conductive film.

7. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a conductive metal nitride layer is formed below the contact hole to connect the connecting electrode and the pixel electrode.

8. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

storage capacitor for holding a voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer, wherein a capacitance ratio is represented by expression;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">Capacitance ratio=C.sub.sd /(C.sub.sd +C.sub.1s +C.sub.s),

and

the ratio is 10% or less, wherein C_sd denotes a capacitance value between the pixel electrode and the source line, C_1s denotes a capacitance value of a liquid crystal portion corresponding to each pixel in an intermediate display state, and C_s denotes a capacitance value of the storage capacitor of each pixel.

9. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the shape of the pixel electrode is rectangular with a side parallel to the gate line being shorter than a side parallel to the source line.

10. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising a driving circuit for supplying to the source line a data signal of which polarity is inverted for every horizontal scanning period, and the data signal is supplied to the pixel electrode via the switching element.

11. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising a storage capacitor for holding a voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer, the storage capacitor including:

a storage capacitor electrode;

a storage capacitor counter electrode; and

an insulating film therebetween;

wherein the storage capacitor electrode is formed in the same layer as either the source line or the connecting electrode.

12. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 11, wherein the storage capacitor counter electrode is formed of a part of the gate line.

13. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 11, wherein the pixel electrode and the storage capacitor electrode are connected via the contact hole formed above the storage capacitor counter electrode.

14. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 11, wherein the contact hole is formed above either the storage capacitor counter electrode or the gate line.

15. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the drain electrode is offset laterally from the at least one of the plurality of lines.

16. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of lines further includes storage capacitor lines.

17. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 16, wherein the contact hole is aligned with the storage capacitor lines.

18. A transmission type liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein the contact hole is aligned with the gate lines.