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公开(公告)号:US20240112646A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-04
申请号:US18233359
申请日:2023-08-14
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Jun NISHIMURA , Kengo HARA , Yohei TAKEUCHI , Yoshihito HARA , Tohru DAITOH
CPC classification number: G09G3/3677 , G06F3/04166 , G09G3/2096 , G09G2310/0286 , G09G2330/021
Abstract: A set circuit in a unit circuit in a gate driver of a display device includes a setting transistor, a first auxiliary transistor, and a second auxiliary transistor. The setting transistor includes a source terminal connected to an internal node, a gate terminal connected to a set input terminal, and a drain terminal connected to the set input terminal via the first auxiliary transistor and also connected to an input terminal via the second auxiliary transistor in a diode-connected form. Each transistor is controlled to be in an on state and an off state during normal drive and is controlled to be in the off state and the on state during a pause period by a control signal supplied to the input terminal.
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公开(公告)号:US20230252951A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-10
申请号:US18101270
申请日:2023-01-25
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Kengo HARA , Tohru DAITOH , Yoshihito HARA , Jun NISHIMURA , Yohei TAKEUCHI
CPC classification number: G09G3/3677 , H01L27/124 , H01L27/1225 , G09G2310/0286 , G09G2330/021
Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a gate driver including a shift register including a plurality of unit circuits connected in multiple stages. Each of the plurality of unit circuits includes an output node, a first node, a first TFT including a first gate terminal supplied with the set signal, a first source terminal connected to the first node, and a first drain terminal supplied with a first power supply potential higher than a low-level potential of the set signal, and a second TFT including a second gate terminal connected to the first node, a second source terminal connected to the output node, and a second drain terminal supplied with the clock signal. The first TFT includes a semiconductor layer, and a first and a second gate electrodes disposed on a side of the semiconductor layer opposite to the substrate and connected to the first gate terminal. The semiconductor layer includes a source contact region electrically connected to the first source terminal, a drain contact region electrically connected to the first drain terminal, and a first and a second channel regions separated from each other in a channel length direction between the contact regions when viewed from a normal direction of the substrate. The first gate electrode overlaps the first channel region via an upper gate insulating layer, and the second gate electrode overlaps the second channel region via the upper gate insulating layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20230215395A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-06
申请号:US18075300
申请日:2022-12-05
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Jun NISHIMURA , Yoshihito HARA , Yohei TAKEUCHI , Kengo HARA , Tohru DAITOH
IPC: G09G3/36
CPC classification number: G09G3/3677 , G11C19/28
Abstract: A shift register includes stages each constituted by a unit circuit provided with thin-film transistors that separate a control node (i.e. a node that controls output from a unit circuit) into an output-side first control node and an input-side second control node. One of the thin-film transistors has a control terminal that is supplied with a set signal that is an output signal from a unit circuit constituting a preceding stage. The other of the thin-film transistors has a control terminal that is supplied with a reset signal that is an output signal from a unit circuit constituting a subsequent stage.
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公开(公告)号:US20230352493A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-02
申请号:US18140593
申请日:2023-04-27
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Yoshihito HARA , Tohru DAITOH , Jun NISHIMURA , Kengo HARA , Yohei TAKEUCHI
IPC: H01L27/12 , G02F1/1368 , G02F1/1362 , G02F1/1337 , G02F1/1343 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1335 , G06F3/041 , G06F3/044
CPC classification number: H01L27/1248 , G02F1/1368 , G02F1/136227 , G02F1/1337 , G02F1/134372 , G02F1/13338 , G02F1/136286 , G02F1/133512 , G02F1/136204 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/04164 , G06F3/0446
Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulating layer covering the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode provided above the interlayer insulating layer and electrically connected to the thin film transistor, a common electrode provided between the pixel electrode and the interlayer insulating layer, a first dielectric layer provided between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, and an alignment film covering the pixel electrode. The first dielectric layer includes a plurality of openings each of which exposes a part of the common electrode and includes the alignment film positioned therein.
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公开(公告)号:US20220406942A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-22
申请号:US17835273
申请日:2022-06-08
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Tetsuo KIKUCHI , Tohru DAITOH , Masahiko SUZUKI , Setsuji NISHIMIYA , Kengo HARA , Hitoshi TAKAHATA
IPC: H01L29/786
Abstract: Each first thin film transistor of a semiconductor device includes: a lower electrode; a first oxide semiconductor layer including a channel region and first and second contact regions; a gate electrode disposed on the channel region with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween; and a source electrode and a drain electrode connected to the first contact region and the second contact region, respectively. When viewed from a normal direction of the substrate, at least a part of the channel region overlaps the lower electrode, and at least one of the first and second contact regions is located outside the lower electrode. The channel region has a layered structure including a lower layer, an upper layer located between the lower layer and the gate insulating layer, and a high mobility layer disposed between the lower layer and the upper layer and having mobility higher than mobility of the lower layer and the upper layer. In the channel region, the thickness of the upper layer is equal to or less than 1/3 of the thickness of the lower layer, and the thickness of the high mobility layer is equal to or less than 1/2 of the thickness of the lower layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20250149007A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-08
申请号:US18913037
申请日:2024-10-11
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Kengo HARA , Tohru DAITOH , Yoshihito HARA , Jun NISHIMURA , Yohei TAKEUCHI
Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a HIGH power supply line and a LOW power supply line; and a scan signal line drive circuit including a unit circuit, wherein the unit circuit includes: a SET terminal; a RESET terminal; an output terminal; a first thin film transistor; a second thin film transistor including a second semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode, the second gate electrode being electrically connected to the SET terminal, one of the second source electrode and the second drain electrode being electrically connected to an internal node; and a third thin film transistor, the second gate electrode is an upper gate electrode, another one of the second source electrode and the second drain electrode is electrically connected to the HIGH power supply line, and the second thin film transistor further includes a lower gate electrode.
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公开(公告)号:US20240331653A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-03
申请号:US18585148
申请日:2024-02-23
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Yohei TAKEUCHI , Tatsuya KAWASAKI , Kengo HARA , Masafumi SUGINO , Hajime IMAI , Tohru DAITOH
IPC: G09G3/36 , G02F1/1362 , G02F1/1368
CPC classification number: G09G3/3677 , G02F1/136286 , G02F1/1368 , G09G2310/0286 , G09G2310/08
Abstract: A transistor includes a first electrode, a first semiconductor portion that is at least partly superimposed on the first electrode and that is composed of a semiconductor material, a first insulating film that is interposed between the first electrode and the first semiconductor portion, a second electrode that is superimposed on a part of the first semiconductor portion and that is connected to the first semiconductor portion, and a third electrode that is located in a layer in which the second electrode is located, that is superimposed on a part of the first semiconductor portion, and that is connected to the first semiconductor portion. An electric potential of the second electrode is lower than that of the third electrode. The third electrode includes a first portion that is spaced from the second electrode and a second portion that is spaced from the second electrode opposite the first portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20230206875A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-29
申请号:US18075307
申请日:2022-12-05
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Jun NISHIMURA , Yoshihito HARA , Yohei TAKEUCHI , Kengo HARA , Tohru DAITOH
CPC classification number: G09G3/3677 , G11C19/28 , G09G2310/0286 , G09G2300/0852
Abstract: A shift register includes stages each constituted by a unit circuit provided with a thin-film transistor (separation transistor) that separates a control node into an output-side first control node and an input-side second control node and a capacitor whose first end is connected to the second control node. The thin-film transistor (separation transistor) has a control terminal that is supplied with a high-level DC power supply voltage. Typically, the channel width of a thin-film transistor (first output control transistor) that controls output from a unit circuit is ten or more times greater than the channel width of the thin-film transistor (separation transistor).
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公开(公告)号:US20230135065A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-04
申请号:US17973790
申请日:2022-10-26
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Masahiko SUZUKI , Tetsuo KIKUCHI , Setsuji NISHIMIYA , Kengo HARA , Hitoshi TAKAHATA , Tohru DAITOH
IPC: H01L27/12
Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs each including an oxide semiconductor layer, a lower gate electrode positioned on the substrate side of the oxide semiconductor layer, and an upper gate electrode positioned on the oxide semiconductor layer on a side opposite from the substrate, a plurality of source wiring lines extending in a column direction, a plurality of upper gate wiring lines extending in a row direction, and a plurality of lower gate wiring lines extending in the row direction. The plurality of lower gate wiring lines include a first gate wiring line, and the plurality of upper gate wiring lines include a second gate wiring line partially overlapping the first gate wiring line via the lower gate insulating layer and the upper gate insulating layer. The plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs include a first TFT including an oxide semiconductor layer extending across the first gate wiring line and the second gate wiring line in the column direction, when viewed from a normal direction of the substrate. Portions of the first gate wiring line and the second gate wiring line, over which the oxide semiconductor layer of the first TFT extends, respectively function as the lower gate electrode and the upper gate electrode of the first TFT. When viewed from the normal direction of the substrate, the first gate wiring line includes a plurality of first notched portions disposed spaced apart from each other and a first solid portion, the first solid portion being a portion other than the plurality of first notch portions. When viewed from the normal direction of the substrate, the second gate wiring line includes a second solid portion including a plurality of first overlapping portions disposed spaced apart from each other, each of the first overlapping portions partially overlapping at least one of the plurality of first notched portions, and a second overlapping portion overlapping the first solid portion. When viewed from the normal direction of the substrate, the second overlapping portion continuously extends from one of two of the plurality of source wiring lines adjacent to each other, to the other of the two source wiring lines adjacent to each other.
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公开(公告)号:US20230075289A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-09
申请号:US17895226
申请日:2022-08-25
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Kengo HARA , Tohru DAITOH , Tetsuo KIKUCHI , Masahiko SUZUKI , Setsuji NISHIMIYA , Hitoshi TAKAHATA
IPC: H01L29/786 , H01L29/417 , H01L27/32 , H01L29/66
Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a first oxide semiconductor layer including a first channel region; a first gate electrode disposed on the substrate side of the first oxide semiconductor layer; a channel protection layer disposed on a side of the first oxide semiconductor layer opposite to the substrate and covering the first channel region; a first TFT having a first source electrode and a first drain electrode in an upper layer of the channel protection layer; a second oxide semiconductor layer; a second gate electrode disposed on a side of the second oxide semiconductor layer opposite to the substrate; and the second TFT having a second source electrode and a second drain electrode disposed on an interlayer insulating layer that covers the second gate electrode, wherein the first oxide semiconductor layer and the second oxide semiconductor layer are formed of the same layered oxide semiconductor film, the layered oxide semiconductor film has a layered structure including a high mobility oxide semiconductor film and a low mobility oxide semiconductor film disposed on the substrate side of the high mobility oxide semiconductor film and having a lower mobility than a mobility of the high mobility oxide semiconductor film, and the channel protection layer of the first TFT and the gate insulating layer of the second TFT are formed of the same insulating film.
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