An organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel regions each having a light emission region and an element region; a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) including at least one switching TFT and at least one driving TFT in each element region; a planarization layer on the plurality of TFTs; a first electrode on the planarization layer and including first to third portions connected to one another, wherein the first and second portions are at each pixel region, and the third portion is at a neighboring pixel region; an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode; and a second electrode on the organic light emitting layer, wherein an end of the third portion overlaps the driving TFT of the neighboring pixel region.

A semiconductor memory device includes a transistor and a capacitor. The transistor includes: an insulating film in which a groove portion is provided; a pair of electrodes separated so that the groove portion is sandwiched therebetween; an oxide semiconductor film which is in contact with the pair of electrodes and side surfaces and a bottom surface of the groove portion and has a thickness value smaller than a depth value of the groove portion; a gate insulating film covering the oxide semiconductor film; and a gate electrode provided to overlap with the oxide semiconductor film with the gate insulating film positioned therebetween.

A gate electrode, a first insulating film thereover, an oxide semiconductor film thereover, a source electrode and a drain electrode thereover, and a second insulating film thereover are included. The source and the drain electrodes each include a first conductive film, a second conductive film over and in contact with the first conductive film, and a third conductive film over and in contact with the second conductive film. The second conductive film includes copper. The first and the third conductive films each include an oxide conductive film. An end portion of the first conductive film includes a region located outward from an end portion of the second conductive film. The third conductive film covers a top surface and a side surface of the second conductive film and includes a region in contact with the first conductive film.

A structure is employed in which a first protective insulating layer; an oxide semiconductor layer over the first protective insulating layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode that are electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer that is over the source electrode and the drain electrode and overlaps with the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate electrode that overlaps with the oxide semiconductor layer with the gate insulating layer provided therebetween; and a second protective insulating layer that covers the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate electrode are included. Furthermore, the first protective insulating layer and the second protective insulating layer each include an aluminum oxide film that includes an oxygen-excess region, and are in contact with each other in a region where the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate electrode are not provided.

A semiconductor device (1001) includes: a first transistor (10A) having a first channel length L1 and a first channel width W1; and a second transistor (10B) having a second channel length L2 and a second channel width W2, wherein the first transistor (10A) and the second transistor (10B) include an active layer formed from a common oxide semiconductor film, the first transistor (10A) is a memory transistor which is capable of being irreversibly changed from a semiconductor state where a drain current Isd depends on a gate voltage Vg to a resistor state where the drain current Isd does not depend on the gate voltage Vg, and the first channel length L1 is smaller than the second channel length L2.

There are provided a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor and a display including a thin film transistor. The method of manufacturing a thin film transistor includes forming a barrier layer cm a substrate, forming a semiconductor layer on the barrier layer, forming a gate insulating layer on the semiconductor layer, forming a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer, forming an offset region on an external surface of the gate electrode through a plasma heat treatment process or an annealing process, etching, an offset region of the gate electrode, etching a gate insulating layer except for a portion of the gate insulating layer, positioned below the gate electrode, forming an interlayer insulating layer on the gate electrode, and etching, the interlayer insulating layer to form a source electrode and a drain electrode.

The present disclosure provides an array substrate for a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. A transparent electrode pattern (ITO) may be formed between a source/drain metal pattern and a passivation layer located above the source/drain metal pattern, which are formed in a passivation hole area of a non-active area of the array substrate. Accordingly, it may be possible to prevent display failure caused by a delamination phenomenon or peel-off of a material of the passivation layer due to the lack of adhesion strength between a metal layer and the passivation layer in the passivation hole area.

A thin film transistor includes a substrate, a gate electrode disposed on the substrate, a channel layer located on the gate electrode, a gate insulation layer disposed between the gate electrode and the channel layer, an etching stop layer disposed on the channel layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the etching stop layer. The gate electrode has multiple through holes, the etching stop layer has multiple contact holes overlapped with the through holes in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and the source and drain electrodes are respectively electrically connected to the channel layer through the contact holes. A method of manufacturing the thin film transistor, where the contact holes in the etching stop layer are formed by backside exposure using the gate electrode as a mask. A conductivity of a region of the channel layer exposed by the contact holes has a great conductivity.

A method for making a thin film transistor includes a step of forming a semiconducting layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, and an insulating layer on an insulating substrate. A process of forming the semiconducting layer comprises a step of sputtering an oxide semiconductor film on a substrate by using a sputtering target comprising In2CexZnO4+2x, wherein x=0.52.

A TFT substrate includes a base plate on which first and second gate electrodes respectively corresponding to first and second TFTs are formed. A gate insulation layer, a semiconductor layer, and an etch stop layer are sequentially formed on the base plate and the first and second electrodes. A single photolithographic process is conducted simultaneously on the gate insulation layer, the semiconductor layer, and the etch stop layer with the same gray tone mask to form separate semiconductor portions for the two TFTs and also form contact holes in the etch stop layer and the gate insulation layer to receive sources and drains of the two TFTs to be deposited therein and in contact with the two semiconductor portions.