To provide a display device including a flexible panel that can be handled without seriously damaging a driver circuit or a connecting portion between circuits. The display device includes a bent portion obtained by bending an element substrate. A circuit for driving the display device is provided in the bent portion and a wiring extends from the circuit, whereby the strength of a portion including the circuit for driving the display device is increased and failure of the circuit is reduced. Furthermore, the element substrate is bent in a connecting portion between an external terminal electrode and an external connecting wiring (FPC) so that the element substrate provided with the external terminal electrode fits the external connecting wiring, whereby the strength of the connecting portion is increased.

To provide a display device including a flexible panel that can be handled without seriously damaging a driver circuit or a connecting portion between circuits. The display device includes a bent portion obtained by bending an element substrate. A circuit for driving the display device is provided in the bent portion and a wiring extends from the circuit, whereby the strength of a portion including the circuit for driving the display device is increased and failure of the circuit is reduced. Furthermore, the element substrate is bent in a connecting portion between an external terminal electrode and an external connecting wiring (FPC) so that the element substrate provided with the external terminal electrode fits the external connecting wiring, whereby the strength of the connecting portion is increased.

An array substrate includes a glass substrate GS, an alignment mark 29, and first traces 19. The glass substrate GS has a corner portion 30 having an outline defined by a first edge portion 11b1 and a second edge portion 11b2 crossing the first edge portion 11b1. The alignment mark 29 is disposed at the corner portion 30 and used as the positioning index in mounting a driver 21 and a flexible printed circuit board 13. The alignment mark 29 at least includes first and second side portions 29a, 29b parallel to the first and second edge portions 11b1, 11b2, respectively. One end of the second side portion 29b is continuous to one end of the first side portion 29a. The alignment mark 29 has an outline that is on a same plane with a reference line BL connecting other ends of the first side portion 29a and the second side portion 29b linearly. The first traces 19 include inclined portions 31 that are inclined with respect to the first and second side portions 29a, 29b along the reference line BL.

A display panel and the method of manufacturing the same, includes a first substrate disposed relatively to a second substrate, disposed above the first substrate. A black matrix, a poly silicon layer, a gate layer and a source drain layer disposed successively on the first substrate along direction facing the second substrate. The black matrix shelters the surrounding light which is incident from the first substrate onto the poly crystal layer, and the gate layer and the source-drain layer shelter the backlight which is incident from the second substrate onto the poly crystal layer. The manufacturing method of the display panel of the present invention could be simplified by the method described above.

A display panel and the method of manufacturing the same, includes a first substrate disposed relatively to a second substrate, disposed above the first substrate. A black matrix, a poly silicon layer, a gate layer and a source drain layer disposed successively on the first substrate along direction facing the second substrate. The black matrix shelters the surrounding light which is incident from the first substrate onto the poly crystal layer, and the gate layer and the source-drain layer shelter the backlight which is incident from the second substrate onto the poly crystal layer. The manufacturing method of the display panel of the present invention could be simplified by the method described above.

Disclosed are an oxide thin film transistor (TFT), a method of manufacturing the same, and a display panel and a display device using the same, in which a first conductor and a second conductor are provided at end portions of a semiconductor layer formed of oxide semiconductor. The first conductor and second conductor are electrically connected to a first electrode and a second electrode, and covered by a gate insulation layer. The oxide TFT includes a semiconductor layer provided on a buffer and including an oxide semiconductor, a gate insulation layer covering the semiconductor layer and the buffer, a gate electrode provided on the gate insulation layer to overlap a portion of the semiconductor layer, and a passivation layer covering the gate and the gate insulation layer.

Disclosed are an oxide thin film transistor (TFT), a method of manufacturing the same, and a display panel and a display device using the same, in which a first conductor and a second conductor are provided at end portions of a semiconductor layer formed of oxide semiconductor. The first conductor and second conductor are electrically connected to a first electrode and a second electrode, and covered by a gate insulation layer. The oxide TFT includes a semiconductor layer provided on a buffer and including an oxide semiconductor, a gate insulation layer covering the semiconductor layer and the buffer, a gate electrode provided on the gate insulation layer to overlap a portion of the semiconductor layer, and a passivation layer covering the gate and the gate insulation layer.

A method of manufacturing a pixel structure of a liquid crystal display panel includes providing a substrate, forming a pixel electrode and a switch device that is electrically connected to the pixel electrode on the substrate, forming an insulating layer that covers the switch device and the pixel electrode on the substrate, forming a common electrode layer on the insulating layer, forming a patterned photoresist layer that includes a plurality of discontinuous patterns on the common electrode layer, performing a first etching process to remove a portion of the common electrode layer so as to forma patterned common electrode, performing a second etching process to remove part of a surface of the insulating layer so as to form a plurality of trenches, wherein the patterned common electrode does not cover the plurality of trenches, and removing the patterned photoresist layer.

A method of manufacturing a pixel structure of a liquid crystal display panel includes providing a substrate, forming a pixel electrode and a switch device that is electrically connected to the pixel electrode on the substrate, forming an insulating layer that covers the switch device and the pixel electrode on the substrate, forming a common electrode layer on the insulating layer, forming a patterned photoresist layer that includes a plurality of discontinuous patterns on the common electrode layer, performing a first etching process to remove a portion of the common electrode layer so as to forma patterned common electrode, performing a second etching process to remove part of a surface of the insulating layer so as to form a plurality of trenches, wherein the patterned common electrode does not cover the plurality of trenches, and removing the patterned photoresist layer.

Disclosed are a spatial light modulator and a display device, where 2*2 adjacent pixel electrodes are a pixel group, through-holes corresponding to the respective pixel electrodes are located proximate to the center of the pixel group, and a photo spacer is located at the center of the pixel group, so that the photo spacer can overlap with the through-holes, or the photo spacer can be arranged in close proximity to the through-holes. If the photo spacer overlaps with the through-holes, then a black matrix layer covering the photo spacer, and a black matrix layer covering the surrounding of the photo spacer may cover at least a part of the through-holes; and if the photo spacer is arranged in close proximity to the through-holes, then the black matrix layer covering the surrounding of the photo spacer may cover at least a part of the through-holes.