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Granted Patent B2
US 9,417,475 · App. 14/184,977 · Granted Aug 16, 2016

Display device

Inventors: Takahiro Fukutome (Tochigi, JP); Toru Tanabe (Taito, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
G02F1/13338G02F1/136209G06F3/044G06F3/0412G02F2001/136222G06F2203/04103
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Patent No.
US 9,417,475
App. No.
14/184,977
Granted
Aug 16, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device having a novel structure that can improve reliability is provided. It lowers reliability to form a structure by using a photomask, such as a color filter on a rear side of a substrate. With this display device, a transistor and the color filter is provided over a first substrate, a touch sensor is provided on a first surface of a second substrate, and the structure is not provided on a second surface of the second substrate. Consequently, the display device with the touch sensor can perform high reliability.

Claims (38)

1. A display device comprising:

a transistor over a first substrate;

a first insulating film over the transistor;

a color filter over the first insulating film;

a second insulating film over the color filter;

a pixel electrode over the second insulating film, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to a terminal of the transistor;

a liquid crystal layer over the pixel electrode;

an alignment film over the liquid crystal layer;

a second substrate over the alignment film;

a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode over the second substrate;

a third insulating layer over the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode; and

a fourth electrode over the insulating layer,

wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to the second electrode through the fourth electrode,

wherein the third electrode is electrically isolated from the first electrode, the second electrode, and the fourth electrode, and

wherein the alignment film is in contact with a first surface of the second substrate, and the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode are in contact with a second surface of the second substrate.

2. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein a channel formation region of the transistor comprises an oxide semiconductor.

3. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein a black matrix is in contact with the pixel electrode.

4. A display device comprising:

a transistor over a first substrate;

a first insulating film over the transistor;

a color filter over the first insulating film;

a second insulating film over the color filter;

a pixel electrode and a common electrode over the second insulating film, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to a terminal of the transistor;

a liquid crystal layer over the pixel electrode and the common electrode;

an alignment film over the liquid crystal layer;

a second substrate over the alignment film;

a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode over the second substrate;

a third insulating layer over the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode; and

a fourth electrode over the insulating layer,

wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to the second electrode through the fourth electrode,

wherein the third electrode is electrically isolated from the first electrode, the second electrode, and the fourth electrode, and

wherein the alignment film is in contact with a first surface of the second substrate, and the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode are in contact with a second surface of the second substrate.

5. The display device according to claim 4 ,

wherein a channel formation region of the transistor comprises an oxide semiconductor.

6. The display device according to claim 4 ,

wherein a black matrix is in contact with the pixel electrode.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 12, 2014
From: FUKUTOME, TAKAHIRO; TANABE, TORU
To: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-032751 · Feb 22, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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