IP Library Granted Patent US 7,061,019
Granted Patent B2
US 7,061,019 · App. 10/888,755 · Granted Jun 13, 2006

Semiconductor circuit array substrate with a photo-electric sensor portion

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Patent No.
US 7,061,019
App. No.
10/888,755
Granted
Jun 13, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A circuit array substrate is provided with thin-film transistors 4 and 5 and PIN diode 6 formed on insulation substrate 3 . Active layer 11 and photo-electric sensor portion 21 are made of poly-silicon films. Impurities are doped into active layer 11 and photo-electric sensor portion 21 in the same process chamber, if necessary, to make their impurity concentrations different from each other. Thin-film transistors 4 and 5 with prescribed characteristics and PIN diode 6 with improved photosensitivity can be simultaneously, easily manufactured on insulation substrate 3 with a lesser number of processes.

Claims (15)

1. A circuit array substrate, comprising:

an insulation substrate;

switching elements having an active layer of a poly-crystalline semiconductor formed on said insulation substrate; and

a photo-electric semiconductor device having a photo-electric sensor portion of a poly-crystalline semiconductor formed on said insulation substrate,

wherein an impurity is doped into said active layer of said poly-crystalline semiconductor with an impurity concentration in a process chamber and

said impurity is also doped into said photo-electric sensor portion of said poly-crystalline semiconductor with a different impurity concentration from that of said active layer of said poly-crystalline semiconductor in the same process chamber as said active layer of said poly-crystalline semiconductor.

2. A circuit array substrate according to claim 1 , wherein said switching elements are thin-film transistors, and

said photo-electric semiconductor device is a PIN diode.

3. A circuit array substrate, comprising:

an insulation substrate; and

a plurality of switching elements having active layers of a poly-crystalline semiconductor formed on said insulation substrate,

wherein an impurity is doped into said active layer of said poly-crystalline semiconductor with an impurity concentration in a process chamber and

said impurity is also doped into a photo-electric sensor portion of said poly-crystalline semiconductor with a different impurity concentration from that of said active layer of said poly-crystalline semiconductor in the same process chamber as said active layer of said poly-crystalline semiconductor.

4. A circuit array substrate according to claim 3 , wherein said switching elements are thin-film transistors having different channel lengths, and

said different impurity concentrations of said active layers of said thin-film transistors are different from each other with respect to said different channel lengths of said thin-film transistors.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 8, 2012
From: TOSHIBA MATSUSHITA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
To: TOSHIBA MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 028339/0273 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 8, 2012
From: TOSHIBA MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY CENTRAL INC.
Reel/Frame 028339/0316 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 21, 2006
From: ISHIDA, ARICHIKA; FUCHI, MASAYOSHI; MATSUURA, YUKI; TADA, NORIO
To: TOSHIBA MATSUSHITA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 017813/0276 →