Manufacturing method for liquid crystal display device
View Patent ↗A LCD device having a large pixel holding capacitance includes opposedly facing first and second substrates, and liquid crystal between them. The first substrate includes a video signal line, a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor having a first electrode connected to the video signal line and a second electrode connected to the pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the second electrode, an organic insulation film above the first silicon nitride film, a capacitance electrode above the organic insulation film, and a second silicon nitride film above the capacitance electrode and below the pixel electrode. A contact hole etched in both the first and second silicon nitride films connects the second electrode and the pixel electrode to each other. A holding capacitance is formed by the pixel electrode, the second silicon nitride film and the capacitance electrode.
1. A display device comprising:
a first substrate including a video signal line, a first electrode, a second electrode, a thin film transistor having a third electrode thereof connected to the video signal line and a fourth electrode thereof connected to the first electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the fourth electrode, an organic insulation film formed above the first silicon nitride film, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate in an opposed manner,
wherein the second electrode is formed above the organic insulation film,
a second silicon nitride film is formed above the second electrode and below the first electrode,
the organic insulation film has a first contact hole,
the first silicon nitride film and the second silicon nitride film form a second contact hole therein which penetrates both of the first silicon nitride film and the second silicon nitride film,
the first electrode and the fourth electrode are connected to each other via the first contact hole and the second contact hole,
the second silicon nitride film is not in contact with the fourth electrode,
wherein the first contact hole has a side wall which consists of the organic insulation film, and
at least a part of the side wall is in contact with the second silicon nitride film.
2. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the whole of the side wall is in contact with the second silicon nitride film.
3. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the second silicon nitride film has a lower surface,
at least apart of the lower surface is in contact with an upper surface of the first silicon nitride film.
4. A display device according to claim 3 , wherein the part of the lower surface is in contact with the upper surface over the whole circumference of the first contact hole.
5. A display device according to claim 3 , wherein an end portion of the lower surface is substantially aligned with an end portion of the upper surface.
6. A display device according to claim 3 , wherein an end portion of the lower surface is retracted from an end portion of the upper surface.
7. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the second contact hole therein which penetrates both of the first silicon nitride film and the second silicon nitride film collectively.
8. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first silicon nitride film is more dense than the second silicon nitride film.
9. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first silicon nitride film has higher crystallinity than the second silicon nitride film.
10. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein a molecular density of the first silicon nitride film is larger than a molecular density of the second silicon nitride film.
11. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the device further comprises a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels having a pixel electrode,
the first electrode is the pixel electrode.
12. A display device according to claim 11 , wherein the second electrode is a counter electrode.
13. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein a potential different from a potential applied to the first electrode is applied to the second electrode,
a holding capacitance is formed by the first electrode, the second silicon nitride film and the second electrode.
14. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 12 , wherein a potential different from a potential applied to the pixel electrode is applied to the counter electrode,
a holding capacitance is formed by the pixel electrode, the second silicon nitride film and the counter electrode.