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 inorganic insulation film formed above the fourth electrode, an organic insulation film formed above the first inorganic insulation 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 inorganic insulation film is formed above the second electrode and below the first electrode,
the organic insulation film has a first contact hole,
the first inorganic insulation film and the second inorganic insulation film form a second contact hole therein which penetrates both of the first inorganic insulation film and the second inorganic insulation film,
the first electrode and the fourth electrode are connected to each other via the first contact hole and the second contact hole,
the first inorganic insulation film has an upper surface which faces the second substrate,
the second inorganic insulation film has a lower surface which faces the first substrate,
at least a part of the lower surface faces the upper surface without the inorganic insulation therebetween.
2. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the part of the lower surface is in contact with the upper surface above the fourth electrode.
3. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the part of the lower surface is in contact with the upper surface over the whole circumference of the first contact hole.
4. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein an end portion of the lower surface is substantially aligned with an end portion of the upper surface.
5. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein an end portion of the lower surface is retracted from an end portion of the upper surface.
6. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first inorganic insulation film is formed of a first silicon nitride film and the second inorganic insulation film is formed of a second silicon nitride film.
7. A display device according to claim 6 , wherein the first silicon nitride film is more dense than the second silicon nitride film.
8. A display device according to claim 6 , wherein the first silicon nitride film has higher crystallinity than the second silicon nitride film.
9. A display device according to claim 6 , wherein a molecular density of the first silicon nitride film is larger than a molecular density of the second silicon nitride film.
10. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the second inorganic insulation film is not in contact with the fourth electrode.
11. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the second contact hole which penetrates both of the first inorganic insulation film and the second inorganic insulation film collectively.
12. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display device further comprises a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels having a pixel electrode, the first electrode is the pixel electrode.
13. A display device according to claim 12 , wherein the second electrode is a counter electrode.
14. 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 inorganic insulation film and the second electrode.
15. A display device according to claim 1 , 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 inorganic insulation film.