To improve field-effect mobility and reliability of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. Provided is a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating film, the oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film, a second insulating film and a third insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, and a gate electrode over the second insulating film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first oxide semiconductor film, a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film, and a third oxide semiconductor film over the second oxide semiconductor film. The first to third oxide semiconductor films contain the same element. The second oxide semiconductor film includes a region where the crystallinity is lower than the crystallinity of one or both of the first oxide semiconductor film and the third oxide semiconductor film.

An imaging device having a three-dimensional integration structure is provided. A first structure including a transistor including silicon in an active layer or an active region and a second structure including an oxide semiconductor in an active layer are fabricated. After that, the first and second structures are bonded to each other so that metal layers included in the first and second structures are bonded to each other; thus, an imaging device having a three-dimensional integration structure is formed.

An active matrix substrate includes a first TFT and a second TFT, in which the first TFT includes a first oxide semiconductor layer and a first gate electrode arranged on a part of the first oxide semiconductor layer with a first gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, the first gate insulating layer has a layered structure including a first insulating film and a second insulating film arranged on the first insulating film, the second TFT includes a second oxide semiconductor layer having a higher mobility than the first oxide semiconductor layer and a second gate electrode arranged on a part of the second oxide semiconductor layer with a second gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, and the second gate insulating layer includes the second insulating film and does not include the first insulating film, and the second TFT further includes a lower insulating layer including the first insulating film arranged between the second oxide semiconductor layer and a substrate.

Disclosed are a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises: a base substrate provided with a first area and a second area which are not overlapped with each other; a low temperature poly-silicon transistor arranged in the first area, the low temperature poly-silicon transistor comprises a poly-silicon active layer; an oxide transistor arranged in the second area, the oxide transistor comprises a first gate electrode; the first gate electrode is arranged in a same layer as the poly-silicon active layer, and a material of the first gate electrode is heavily-doped poly-silicon.

A thin film transistor includes a substrate and an active layer having a channel region. The active layer includes a first active pattern and at least one second active pattern. The first active pattern includes a bottom surface, a top surface and at least one side surface. The at least one side surface connects the bottom and top surfaces, and is in contact with the at least one second active pattern. A length direction of each side surface is approximately perpendicular to a length direction of the channel region. A material of at least the top surface of the first active pattern includes a first polysilicon material, and a material of the second active pattern includes a second polysilicon material; and in the length direction of the channel region, an average grain size of the first polysilicon material is greater than an average grain size of the second polysilicon material.

A method of fabricating an array substrate is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of first thin film transistors on a base substrate, a respective one of the plurality of first thin film transistors formed to include a first active layer, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode and a first drain electrode; and forming a plurality of second thin film transistors on the base substrate, a respective one of the plurality of second thin film transistors formed to include a second active layer, a second gate electrode, a second source electrode and a second drain electrode. Forming the first source electrode includes forming a first source sub-layer and forming a second source sub-layer in separate patterning steps. Forming the first drain electrode includes forming a first drain sub-layer and forming a second drain sub-layer in separate patterning steps.

An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a first thin film transistor located on the base substrate and including a first active layer; and a second thin film transistor located on the base substrate and including a second active layer; a matrix material of the first active layer is the same as that of the second active layer, and the first active layer and the second active layer satisfy at least one of the following conditions: a carrier mobility of the first active layer is greater than that of the second active layer, and a carrier concentration of the first active layer is greater than that of the second active layer. The array substrate is employed to compensate a difference in threshold voltage caused by a difference in channel width-to-length ratio of different thin film transistors.

An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a bending area and a non-bending area, and further includes an inorganic stacked layer disposed on a substrate layer. A recess is formed on the inorganic stacked layer in the bending area. A plurality of first metal lines are disposed in the inorganic stacked layer at two sides of the bending area. A filling layer is filled in the recess. The array substrate further includes a second metal line disposed on the inorganic stacked layer and the filling layer, and the first metal lines at the two sides of the bending area form a lap joint by the second metal line.

Provided are an inverter circuit structure, a gate driving circuit and a display panel. The inverter circuit structure includes a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor, and further includes a first active layer, a gate layer, a second active layer, a first insulating layer between the gate layer and the first active layer, and a second insulating layer between the gate layer and the second active layer. An orthographic projection of the gate on the first active layer is a first region, and a portion of the first active layer in the first region has substantially a same thickness. An orthographic projection of the gate on the second active layer is a second region, and a portion of the second active layer in the second region has substantially a same thickness.

A display apparatus includes a first silicon transistor including a first semiconductor layer including a silicon-based semiconductor and a first gate electrode; a first oxide transistor including a second semiconductor layer and a second gate electrode, the second semiconductor layer including an oxide-based semiconductor; an upper insulating layer on the first and second semiconductor layers; and a first connection electrode on the upper insulating layer, electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer through a first contact hole of the upper insulating layer, and electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer through a second contact hole of the upper insulating layer. The second semiconductor layer includes a channel region, a source region, and a drain region, and a first distance between the channel region of the second semiconductor layer and the first contact hole is about 2 μm or greater.