IP Library Granted Patent US 7,579,222
Granted Patent B2
US 7,579,222 · App. 11/503,286 · Granted Aug 25, 2009

Manufacturing method of thin film device substrate

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Patent No.
US 7,579,222
App. No.
11/503,286
Granted
Aug 25, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

Method of manufacturing a thin film device substrate wherein no trench fabrication is required to be applied onto the substrate surface, and a material which is impervious to light can be used, and the substrate can be peeled off quickly. Firstly, a peeling-off film, a silicon oxide film and an amorphous silicon film are formed in succession on a glass substrate, and the amorphous silicon film is irradiated from above to obtain a polycrystalline silicon film. Subsequently, using the polycrystalline silicon film as an active layer, a TFT is formed, and then a plastic substrate is bonded thereon, and finally the glass substrate is peeled off with the peeling-off film, to complete transfer of the TFT. Because the peeling-off film has a gap space, its etching rate is high. Therefore, it is unnecessary to form a trench for supplying an etchant on the surface of the glass substrate.

Claims (12)

1. A method of manufacturing a thin film device substrate, comprising, in order, the steps of:

forming on a first substrate, a peeling-off film made of a porous film;

forming a semiconductor film on said peeling-off film;

forming a thin film transistor with said semiconductor film as an active layer thereof;

bonding a second substrate onto said thin film device; and

peeling off said first substrate at said peeling-off film by driving a wedge into said peeling-off film to break said porous film mechanically.

2. A method of manufacturing a thin film device substrate, comprising the steps of:

forming on a first substrate, a peeling-off film made of a porous film;

forming a semiconductor film on said peeling-off film;

bonding a second substrate onto said semiconductor film;

peeling off said first substrate at said peeling-off film by driving a wedge into said peeling-off film to break said porous film mechanically; and

forming a thin film transistor with said semiconductor film as an active layer thereof after peeling off said first substrate at said peeling-off film.

Assignments (4)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 14, 2022
From: VISTA PEAK VENTURES, LLC
To: GETNER FOUNDATION LLC
Reel/Frame 060654/0430 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2018
From: GETNER FOUNDATION LLC
To: VISTA PEAK VENTURES, LLC
Reel/Frame 045469/0023 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2011
From: NEC CORPORATION
To: GETNER FOUNDATION LLC
Reel/Frame 026254/0381 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 14, 2006
From: NAKATA, MITSURU; TAKECHI, KAZUSHIGE; KANOH, HIROSHI
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 018181/0308 →