A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. According to an embodiment, a display apparatus includes: a substrate; a thin-film transistor located on the substrate; and a buffer layer, a conductive layer, and an insulating layer sequentially located from the substrate between the substrate and the thin-film transistor, and a thickness of the insulating layer is less than a thickness of the buffer layer.

A display panel includes a base layer, a signal line which is disposed on the base layer and includes a first layer including aluminum and a second layer disposed directly on the first layer and consisting of niobium, a first thin film transistor connected to the signal line, a second thin film transistor disposed on the base layer, a capacitor electrically connected to the second thin film transistor, and a light emitting element electrically connected to the second thin film transistor.

A display substrate and a manufacturing method, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate including a display region and a periphery region; and a shift register unit, a first power line and a second power line; an orthographic projection of the first power line on the base substrate is on a side of an orthographic projection of the shift register unit on the base substrate closer to the display region, an orthographic projection of the second power line on the base substrate is on a side of the orthographic projection of the shift register unit on the base substrate away from the display region, and the orthographic projection of the shift register unit on the base substrate is between the orthographic projection of the first power line on the base substrate and the orthographic projection of the second power line on the base substrate.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor nanowire semiconductor device is described. The method includes forming an amorphous channel material layer on a substrate, patterning the channel material layer to form semiconductor nanowires extending in a lateral direction on the substrate, and forming a cover layer covering an upper of the semiconductor nanowire. The cover layer and the nanowire are patterned to form a trench exposing a side section of an one end of the semiconductor nanowire and a catalyst material layer is formed in contact with a side surface of the semiconductor nanowire, and metal induced crystallization (MIC) by heat treatment is performed to crystallize the semiconductor nanowire in a length direction of the nanowire from the one end of the semiconductor nanowire in contact with the catalyst material.

A method for making an array substrate includes the following steps: forming a poly-silicon semiconductor layer on a substrate; forming a buffer layer on the substrate; depositing a first metal layer, and patterning the first metal layer to form gate electrodes for a driving TFT, a switch TFT, and a poly-silicon TFT; forming a first gate insulator layer; forming a second gate insulator layer; defining through holes passing through the buffer layer, the first gate insulator layer, and the second gate insulator layer to expose the poly-silicon semiconductor layer; depositing a metal oxide layer to form a first metal oxide semiconductor layer; and depositing a second metal layer to form source electrodes and drain electrodes for the driving TFT, the switch TFT, and the poly-silicon TFT.

A thin film transistor substrate includes a data line, a gate line, a gate electrode, a source electrode, a first drain electrode, a semiconductor layer and a second drain electrode. The data line and the gate line cross each other on a base substrate. The gate electrode is electrically connected to the gate line. The source electrode is electrically connected to the data line. The first drain electrode and the source electrode face each other. The semiconductor layer serves as a channel between the source electrode and the first drain electrode. The second drain electrode is disposed on the first drain electrode. The second drain electrode is electrically connected to the first drain electrode.

A novel metal oxide is provided. The metal oxide has a plurality of energy gaps, and includes a first region having a high energy level of a conduction band minimum and a second region having an energy level of a conduction band minimum lower than that of the first region. The second region comprises more carriers than the first region. A difference between the energy level of the conduction band minimum of the first region and the energy level of the conduction band minimum of the second region is 0.2 eV or more. The energy gap of the first region is greater than or equal to 3.3 eV and less than or equal to 4.0 eV and the energy gap of the second region is greater than or equal to 2.2 eV and less than or equal to 2.9 eV.

A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate includes a TFT on the substrate. The TFT includes an active patterned layer which is made of a polycrystalline silicon, which includes a channel portion, a source portion and a drain portion, and in which protrusions are formed at boundaries between grains and recess spaces are formed between the protrusions. A barrier pattern film fills the recess spaces and forms a flat surface with the protrusions. A gate electrode is on a gate insulating layer located on the barrier pattern film and the protrusions and overlays or corresponds to the channel portion. A source electrode and a drain electrode are on the gate electrode and respectively contact the source portion and the drain portion.

An array substrate, includes: a substrate, a first metal layer, a first buffer layer, and an active layer, a gate insulating layer, a second metal layer, a first insulating layer, a third metal layer and a first planarization layer. The first metal layer is electrically connected with the first doped area of the active layer through the bridge layer of the second metal layer. The third metal layer is electrically connected with the second doped area of the active layer. The array substrate of the present disclosure reduces a size of a thin film transistor by stacking the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the third metal layer, thereby increasing pixel density. A display panel is also provided.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a thin film transistor, a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor, an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The thin film transistor includes: a base substrate; an active layer, an insulating layer, and a source-drain layer sequentially stacked on the base substrate, wherein the source-drain layer is electrically connected to the active layer through a via hole penetrating the insulating layer; and a transition layer arranged between the source-drain layer and the active layer at a position of the via hole, wherein the transition layer covers a bottom of the via hole and covers at least part of a sidewall of the via hole, and the transition layer comprises elements of the active layer and elements of a part of the source-drain layer, the part of the source-drain layer being in contact with the transition layer.