IP Library Granted Patent US 7,572,656
Granted Patent B2
US 7,572,656 · App. 11/822,296 · Granted Aug 11, 2009

Mask and method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device using the same

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Patent No.
US 7,572,656
App. No.
11/822,296
Granted
Aug 11, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for fabricating a device is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate; forming a thin film on the substrate; forming a photoresistable layer on the thin film; irradiating light onto the photoresistable layer through a photo mask having a transmissive region, a semi-transmissive region, a diffractive region and an interceptive region, and developing the photoresistable layer to form a photoresist pattern having at least three different thicknesses. With the above-described process, a liquid crystal display device (LCD), for example, can be manufactured using three photo masks.

Claims (12)

1. A method for fabricating a device, comprising:

providing a substrate;

forming a plurality of thin films on the substrate;

forming a photoresistable layer on the plurality of thin films;

irradiating light onto the photoresistable layer through a photo mask having a transmissive region, a half-transmissive region, a diffractive region and an interceptive region;

developing the photoresistable layer to form a photoresist pattern having at least three different thicknesses;

etching the plurality of thin films using the photoresist pattern;

first ashing the photoresist pattern and etching the plurality of thin films using the first ashed photoresist pattern; and

second ashing the first ashed photoresist pattern and etching at least one thin film of the plurality of thin films using the second ashed photoresist pattern;

wherein the interceptive region includes metal layer, the half-transmissive region includes an optical absorption layer, and the diffractive region includes the optical absorption layer and a plurality of slits of metal layer.

2. The method for fabricating a device according to claim 1 , wherein the photoresistable layer includes a photoresist, a photo acryl, or an organic material.

3. The method for fabricating a device according to claim 1 , further comprising etching at least another thin film of the plurality of thin films using the second ashed photoresist pattern.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 17, 2008
From: LG.PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
To: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021754/0045 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 3, 2007
From: SOH, JAE-MOON
To: LG.PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 019579/0909 →