Abstract:
An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a gate line and a gate electrode on a substrate, the gate electrode connected to the gate line; a gate insulating layer on the gate line and the gate electrode; an active layer of intrinsic amorphous silicon on the gate insulating layer and corresponding to the gate electrode; an ohmic contact layer of impurity-doped amorphous silicon on the active layer; a data line crossing the gate line; a source electrode on the ohmic contact layer and connected to the data line; a drain electrode on the ohmic contact layer and spaced apart from the source electrode; a passivation layer on the source and drain electrodes and including a drain contact hole exposing a portion of the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer and connected to the drain electrode through the drain contact hole.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a shift register capable of stably generating an output even when the threadhold voltage of a pull-down switching element is raised due to degradation of the pull-down switching element. The shift register includes a plurality of stages each comprising a node controller comprising an inverter to control a voltage at a reset node in accordance with a voltage at a set node, and an output unit to output a scan pulse based on at least one of the voltage at the set node and the voltage at the reset node. The shift register further includes an inverter voltage controller for controlling a high-level inverter voltage supplied to each inverter of the stages based on the voltage at at least one reset node in at least one of the stages.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device having touch sensors embedded therein. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer interposed between upper and lower substrates, pixels, each of which includes pixel and common electrodes applying a horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, a pixel thin film transistor to drive the pixel electrode, and a common thin film transistor to drive the common electrode, touch sensors, each of which forms a sensing capacitor between an object and the common electrode, sensor power lines, readout lines, and sensor gate lines. Each touch sensor includes the common electrode, a first sensor thin film transistor charging the common electrode with the sensing driving voltage in response to control of the previous sensor gate line, and a second sensor thin film transistor outputting the sensing signal to the readout line in response to control of the current sensor gate line.
Abstract:
A method of fabricating an array substrate for a liquid crystal display device can include forming a gate line and a gate electrode, and a gate insulating layer; forming an active layer on the gate insulating layer and an ohmic contact layer on the active layer; forming a data line and source and drain electrodes; forming a passivation layer on the source and drain electrodes; and forming a pixel electrode on the passivation layer, in which the ohmic contact layer covers an entire top surface of the active layer between the source and drain electrodes; forming a metallic layer on the gate insulating layer and the ohmic contact layer; etching the metallic layer to faun the data line, and the source drain electrodes, in which a silicide layer is formed on the ohmic contact layer only in the space between the source and drain electrodes; and removing the silicide layer.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device having touch sensors embedded therein. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer interposed between upper and lower substrates, pixels, each of which includes pixel and common electrodes applying a horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, a pixel thin film transistor to drive the pixel electrode, and a common thin film transistor to drive the common electrode, touch sensors, each of which forms a sensing capacitor between an object and the common electrode, sensor power lines, readout lines, and sensor gate lines. Each touch sensor includes the common electrode, a first sensor thin film transistor charging the common electrode with the sensing driving voltage in response to control of the previous sensor gate line, and a second sensor thin film transistor outputting the sensing signal to the readout line in response to control of the current sensor gate line.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device having touch sensors embedded therein. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer interposed between upper and lower substrates, pixels, each of which includes pixel and common electrodes applying a horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, a pixel thin film transistor to drive the pixel electrode, and a common thin film transistor to drive the common electrode, touch sensors, each of which forms a sensing capacitor between an object and the common electrode, sensor power lines, readout lines, and sensor gate lines. Each touch sensor includes the common electrode, a first sensor thin film transistor charging the common electrode with the sensing driving voltage in response to control of the previous sensor gate line, and a second sensor thin film transistor outputting the sensing signal to the readout line in response to control of the current sensor gate line.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device having a touch sensor embedded therein is disclosed. The present invention includes a liquid crystal layer between first and second substrates, a pixel on the second substrate to apply a horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, a touch sensor on the second substrate, the touch sensor detecting a touch by forming a touch capacitor with a touch object for touching the first substrate, and a readout line outputting a sensing signal from the touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a sensing electrode on the second substrate to form the sensing capacitor with the touch object, first and second sensor gate lines, a first sensor thin film transistor supplying a sensing driving voltage to the sensing electrode in response to a control of the first sensor gate line, and a second sensor thin film transistor supplying electric charges of the sensing electrode as the sensing signal in response to a control of the second sensor gate line.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a shift register capable of stably generating an output even when the threadhold voltage of a pull-down switching element is raised due to degradation of the pull-down switching element. The shift register includes a plurality of stages each comprising a node controller comprising an inverter to control a voltage at a reset node in accordance with a voltage at a set node, and an output unit to output a scan pulse based on at least one of the voltage at the set node and the voltage at the reset node. The shift register further includes an inverter voltage controller for controlling a high-level inverter voltage supplied to each inverter of the stages based on the voltage at at least one reset node in at least one of the stages.