Embodiment
Also by reference to the accompanying drawings the present invention is described in further detail below by specific embodiment.
The embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of liquid crystal display substrate, and this liquid crystal display substrate comprises underlay substrate, forms the pattern of multiple conductive structure on underlay substrate.Concrete, conductive structure can comprise the structures such as controlling grid scan line, gate electrode, public electrode wire, data line, source electrode, drain electrode and pixel electrode.Each conductive structure space or by insulation course keep insulation, for example, controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode wire are formed on underlay substrate, and data line, source electrode and drain electrode are formed on gate insulation layer, pixel electrode is formed on passivation layer, between each layer, keeps mutually insulated.Wherein, be formed with on the insulation course of conductive structure and be formed with groove, the pattern of conductive structure is formed in groove at least partly.
Adopt conductive structure is formed on to the technical scheme in groove, can reduce the height that conductive structure exposes with respect to groove place surface of insulating layer, even make conductive structure concordant with insulation course.In the time further forming other layer and when applying photoresist and carrying out composition technique, can not make because the height of lower floor's conductive structure projection is excessive photoresist apply uneven, disconnection in the side of conductive structure, the photoresist evenly applying can keep the accurate of composition pattern that technique forms, and is not prone to the phenomenon of broken string.Reducing of conductive structure difference in height, (PI rubbing) is bad in the orientation friction forming can also avoid applying alignment films time.
Concrete, for the array base palte in TFT-LCD, the conductive structure being formed in groove can comprise at least one in controlling grid scan line, gate electrode, public electrode wire, data line, source electrode and drain electrode.Underlay substrate is also for insulating material is made, be equivalent to insulation course, for controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode wire be can be formed in the groove of insulation course, can adopt the material that is easy to etching as underlay substrate, or on underlay substrate, form again one deck and be easy to the insulation course of etching.
Above-mentioned conductive structure is formed in groove, not only can avoids the defects such as composition is inaccurate, can also reduce the restriction to conductive structure pattern thickness, the thickness of increase conductive structure pattern that can be suitable.The advantage that thickness increases is to reduce the resistance of conductive structure, the resistance value of controlling grid scan line, gate electrode, public electrode wire, data line, source electrode and/or drain electrode reduces, can reduce formed RC value, and then can reduce the delayed impact to TFT switch motion, optimize the lag characteristic of TFT switch motion.Or, reduce the width of conductive structure pattern constant in the situation that maintaining resistance, and then increase the area in light-permeable region.
Introduce several preferred embodiment of the present invention below.
Embodiment mono-
The fragmentary top TV structure schematic diagram of the liquid crystal display substrate that Fig. 1 provides for the embodiment of the present invention one, Fig. 2 be A-A in Fig. 1 to cross-sectional view, Fig. 3 is that B-B in Fig. 1 is to cross-sectional view.The liquid crystal display substrate of the present embodiment is specifically as follows array base palte, comprises a underlay substrate 1, is formed with data line 2 and controlling grid scan line 3 that transverse and longitudinal is intersected on underlay substrate 1, encloses the multiple pixel cells that form matrix form.In each pixel cell, be provided with a TFT switch, TFT switch comprises gate electrode 4, active layer 5, source electrode 6 and drain electrode 7.Gate electrode 4 is connected with controlling grid scan line 3, generally adopts identical material to form with controlling grid scan line 3 simultaneously; Source electrode 6 connection data lines 2, drain electrode 7 connects pixel electrode 16, and source electrode 6 and drain electrode 7 adopt identical material to form with data line 2 simultaneously conventionally.Active layer 5 is between gate electrode 4 and source electrode 6 and drain electrode 7.In the time that gate electrode 4 passes into high level, source electrode 6 and drain electrode 7, by active layer 5 conductings, pass into pixel electrode 16 by the voltage of data line 2.For the public electrode wire 8 of public electrode transmission common electric voltage adopts identical material to form with controlling grid scan line 3 conventionally simultaneously.For keeping the insulation between above-mentioned conductive structure, on controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and public electrode wire 8, be coated with gate insulation layer 10, on data line 2, source electrode 6 and drain electrode 7, be coated with passivation layer 11, pixel electrode 16 is connected with drain electrode 7 by the via hole 12 on passivation layer 11.
In the present embodiment, also set up a layer insulating, i.e. insulated substrate layer 9, is formed directly on underlay substrate 1, and controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and public electrode wire 8 are formed on this insulated substrate layer 9.The groove forming on insulated substrate layer 9 comprises the first groove 13, and controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and public electrode wire 8 are formed in the first groove 13.In the present embodiment, the thickness of controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and public electrode wire 8 and the deep equality of the first groove 13, in concrete application, the thickness of controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and public electrode wire 8 also can be greater than or less than the degree of depth of the first groove 13.
Adopt the technical scheme of the present embodiment, because controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and public electrode wire 8 embed among the first groove 13, so there is no the controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and the public electrode wire 8 that protrude on the surface of insulated substrate layer 9, or the thickness of projection is less than the thickness of controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and public electrode wire 8 while being formed directly on underlay substrate 1, on the surface of insulated substrate layer 9, do not form or stair step patterns that height of formation is less.
Under normal process conditions, be generally 200~500 nanometers (nm) by the thickness of the film formed controlling grid scan line of grid metal foil, gate electrode and public electrode wire.In the follow-up composition technique of preparing the patterns such as data line, the side of stair step patterns is weak position, if the height of stair step patterns is larger, can cause apply photoresist inhomogeneous or disconnect, make follow-up etching pattern inaccurate.The technical scheme of the present embodiment has reduced the height of stair step patterns, can address the above problem, and makes the pattern of subsequent etching more accurate, can avoid the problem of the broken data wire that occurs etching.
In addition, because the side of stair step patterns is weak location, so prior art often needs to increase the thickness of stair step patterns, also increased the thickness of gate insulation layer, the defect causing is like this that the vertical range between gate electrode and active layer, source electrode and drain electrode increases, and in gate electrode, needs to pass into higher voltage and just can make active layer conducting source electrode and drain electrode.So the technical scheme of the present embodiment also provides the possibility that reduces gate insulation layer thickness, can effectively reduce the turn-on threshold voltage of TFT switch, reduce driving power consumption.
Have, the technical scheme of the present embodiment has reduced the restriction to controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode wire thickness again, therefore can increase thickness, and the resistance of conductive structure is reduced, thereby optimizes the lag characteristic of TFT switch, improves the display quality of LCD.
Or, due to the reducing of thickness limits, can in increasing thickness, the width of controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode line pattern be reduced.Due to the increase of thickness, so reduce the remarkable increase that pattern width can not cause resistance.Width reduces to increase the region area of printing opacity in pixel cell, has increased the aperture opening ratio of pixel cell.
The pattern of the first groove is the position of corresponding controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode wire preferably, and controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode wire are all formed in the first groove.The also position of at least one or more pattern in corresponding controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode wire according to specific needs of the pattern of the first groove, is formed on the partial pattern in controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode wire in the first groove.For example, only data line and the overlapping place of controlling grid scan line are formed to the first groove, can reach the problem breaking while avoiding follow-up data line etching.
Embodiment bis-
The part section structural representation of the liquid crystal display substrate that Fig. 4 provides for the embodiment of the present invention two, be that with the difference of embodiment mono-groove forming on insulated substrate layer 9 also comprises the second groove 14, the data line 2, source electrode 6 and the drain electrode 7 that are formed on gate insulation layer 10 are formed in the second groove 14.The plan structure of the present embodiment liquid crystal display substrate can be shown in Figure 1, Fig. 4 can be the schematic diagram liquid crystal display substrate of the present embodiment being dissectd along the B-B line in Fig. 1, the fragmentary top TV structure schematic diagram of insulated substrate layer 9 in the liquid crystal display substrate that Fig. 5 provides for the embodiment of the present invention two.The first groove 13 and the second groove 14 can be grooves that connect, deep equality.
Adopt the technical scheme of the present embodiment can reduce similarly the thickness limits to data line, source electrode and drain electrode, and then can reduce its resistance or reduce its width, can optimize the lag characteristic of TFT switch or the aperture opening ratio of pixel cell is provided.
In concrete application, the degree of depth of the first groove 13 and the second groove 14 can equate, preferably the degree of depth of the first groove 13 is greater than the degree of depth of the second groove 14, the second groove 14 that holds data line 2 is slightly shallower than the first groove 13, at the crossover location of data line 2 and controlling grid scan line 3, the height that makes data line 2 need to cross controlling grid scan line 3 reduces, and can further reduce the possibility that data line 2 broken strings occur.
The pattern of the second groove is the position of respective data lines, source electrode and drain electrode preferably, and data line, source electrode and drain electrode are all formed in the second groove.The also position of at least one or more pattern in respective data lines, source electrode and drain electrode according to specific needs of the pattern of the second groove.
Embodiment tri-
The part section structural representation of the liquid crystal display substrate that Fig. 6 provides for the embodiment of the present invention three, the fragmentary top TV structure schematic diagram of gate insulation layer 10 in the liquid crystal display substrate that Fig. 7 provides for the embodiment of the present invention three.In the present embodiment, insulation course between data line 2, source electrode 6 and drain electrode 7 and controlling grid scan line 3, gate electrode 4 and public electrode wire 8 is gate insulation layer 10, the groove forming on gate insulation layer 10 comprises the 3rd groove 15, and at least one or more in data line 2, source electrode 6 and drain electrode 7 is formed in the 3rd groove 15.The degree of depth of the 3rd groove 15 is less than the thickness of gate insulation layer 10, avoids contacting conducting with the controlling grid scan line 3 under gate insulation layer 10.
In the present embodiment, can comprise as shown in Figure 6 insulated substrate layer 9 and on the first groove 13, or insulated substrate layer 9 also can be set.
Adopt the technical scheme of the present embodiment can reduce similarly the thickness limits to data line, source electrode and drain electrode, and then can reduce its resistance or reduce its width, can optimize the lag characteristic of TFT switch or the aperture opening ratio of raising pixel cell.
The liquid crystal display substrate that the embodiment of the present invention provides is not limited to (the Twisted Nematic of the twisted nematic shown in figure; Hereinafter to be referred as: TN) type array base palte, can also be for forming the array base palte of horizontal component of electric field, for example fringing field switches (Fringe Field Switching; Hereinafter to be referred as: FFS) type array base palte.Both can under insulated substrate layer, form the public electrode of monoblock pattern, can also on insulated substrate layer, form the public electrode of the blocky at interval, the pattern of public electrode is also formed in the first groove, and with gate electrode and controlling grid scan line space.
The present invention also provides a kind of manufacture method of liquid crystal display substrate, be included in the step that forms space on underlay substrate or keep the pattern of the conductive structure of insulation by insulation course, form conductive structure on insulation course before, also on insulation course, form groove, the pattern of conductive structure is formed in groove at least partly.Manufacture method of the present invention can be used for preparing liquid crystal display substrate of the present invention, according to the difference of concrete technology flow scheme design, can have different manufacture methods, below describes by preferred embodiment.
Embodiment tetra-
The process flow diagram of the manufacture method of the liquid crystal display substrate that Fig. 8 provides for the embodiment of the present invention four, comprises the steps:
Step 801, on underlay substrate, form insulated substrate film, underlay substrate can be transparency glass plate or quartz plate, can be about 5000~20000 (Ethylmercurichlorendimides) by chemical vapor deposition method (PECVD) deposit thickness
insulated substrate film, the material of insulated substrate film can be selected oxide, nitride or oxynitrides, and corresponding chemical reaction gas is silane (SiH4), ammonia (NH3), nitrogen (N2) or dichloro-dihydro silicon (SiH2Cl2), ammonia (NH3), nitrogen (N2);
Step 802, insulated substrate film is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern of the insulated substrate layer that comprises the first groove, so-called composition technique, the operation such as comprise exposure imaging, etching and peel off;
Step 803, on insulated substrate layer, deposit grid metallic film, can carry out deposit thickness by sputter or thermal evaporation method and be 5000~
grid metallic film, grid metallic film can be selected the metal or alloy such as Cr, W, Ti, Ta, Mo, Al or Cu, the grid metal level being made up of multiple layer metal also can be satisfied the demand;
Step 804, grid metallic film is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern that comprises gate electrode, controlling grid scan line and public electrode wire, and at least one in gate electrode, controlling grid scan line and public electrode wire is formed in the first groove;
Step 805, form gate insulation layer, active layer film and data wire metal film forming on the underlay substrate of gate electrode, controlling grid scan line and public electrode wire, can be about 3000 by PECVD successively deposit thickness~
gate insulation layer, thickness be 1000~
semiconductor layer, thickness be 500~
ohmic contact layer, semiconductor layer and ohmic contact layer form active layer jointly, gate insulation layer can be selected oxide, nitride or oxynitrides, corresponding reacting gas can be SiH4, NH3, N2 or SiH2Cl2, NH3, N2, the reacting gas that semiconductor layer is corresponding can be SiH4, H2 or SiH2Cl2, hydrogen (H2), the reacting gas of ohmic contact layer can be SiH4, hydrogen phosphide (PH3), H2 or SiH2Cl2, PH3, H2, can carry out deposit thickness by sputter or thermal evaporation method and be 2000~
data wire metal film, data wire metal film can be selected metal and the alloys such as (chromium) Cr, (tungsten) W, (titanium) Ti, (tantalum) Ta, (molybdenum) Mo, (aluminium) Al or (copper) Cu, can be that individual layer can be also multilayer;
Step 806, data line metallic film and active layer film are carried out to composition technique, formation comprises the pattern of data line, source electrode, drain electrode and active layer, can adopt duotone mask plate to etch at twice the pattern of data line, source electrode and drain electrode, and the pattern of TFT raceway groove on active layer;
Step 807, on the underlay substrate that forms data line, source electrode, drain electrode and active layer, form passivation layer film, can be about 1500 by PECVD deposit thickness~
passivation layer film, passivation layer film can be selected oxide, nitride or oxynitrides, corresponding reacting gas can be SiH4, NH3, N2 or SiH2Cl2, NH3, N2;
Step 808, passivation layer film is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern of the passivation layer of via hole, the position of the corresponding drain electrode of via hole;
Step 809, on passivation layer pixel deposition electrode film, can be 300 by sputter or thermal evaporation method deposition a layer thickness~
pixel electrode film, its material can be indium tin oxide (Indium Tin Oxides; Hereinafter to be referred as: ITO) or indium-zinc oxide (Indium Zinc Oxides; Hereinafter to be referred as: IZO), can be also other transparent metal and metal oxide;
Step 810, pixel electrode film is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern that comprises pixel electrode.
The liquid crystal display substrate structure that above-mentioned steps forms can be referring to shown in Fig. 1~3.Reduce the thickness limits to controlling grid scan line, gate electrode and public electrode wire, can increase its thickness and reduce resistance, optimized TFT lag characteristic, also can reduce its width and improve aperture opening ratio.
On the basis of the present embodiment, be not limited to prepare the TN type array base palte shown in Fig. 1~3 with technique scheme, can also prepare based on such scheme the array base palte of the horizontal component of electric fields such as FFS type, for example, before can forming insulated substrate film on underlay substrate, also comprise: on underlay substrate, deposit the public electrode of monoblock, then form again insulated substrate film.
Or, before can also depositing grid metallic film on insulated substrate layer, also comprise: on insulated substrate layer, deposit public electrode film, adopt composition technique to form the pattern of the block public electrode at interval, the pattern of this public electrode is formed in part the first groove, is formed on controlling grid scan line and gate electrode space in the first groove so that follow-up.The pattern of the first groove can carry out composition according to the requirement of space.
On underlay substrate, form space or keep the pattern of conductive structure of insulation by insulation course, and the step that forms groove on insulation course can also be specially:
The gate insulation layer covering on gate electrode and controlling grid scan line is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern of the gate insulation layer that comprises the 3rd groove, and the degree of depth of the 3rd groove is less than the thickness of gate insulation layer;
On gate insulation layer, deposit active layer film and data wire metal film;
Described data wire metal film and active layer film are carried out to composition technique, form the pattern that comprises data line, source electrode, drain electrode and active layer, at least one in described data line, source electrode and drain electrode is formed in the 3rd groove.
The technology that forms the 3rd groove can independently be implemented, and also four scheme is implemented in the lump in conjunction with the embodiments.
Embodiment five
The manufacture method of the liquid crystal display substrate that the embodiment of the present invention five provides, can be take embodiment tetra-as basis, and step 802 can be specially: insulated substrate film is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern of the insulated substrate layer that comprises the first groove and the second groove, the position of at least one in position respective data lines, source electrode and the drain electrode of the second groove simultaneously.
The liquid crystal display substrate structure that adopts this scheme to form can be referring to shown in Figure 4 and 5.Can further reduce the thickness limits to data line, source electrode and drain electrode, can increase its thickness and reduce resistance, optimize TFT lag characteristic, also can reduce its width and improve aperture opening ratio.
Insulated substrate film is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern of insulated substrate layer that comprises the first groove and the second groove, can be specifically to form the first groove that the degree of depth is identical and the pattern of the second groove by composition technique simultaneously.
Or, insulated substrate film is carried out to composition technique, the pattern that forms the insulated substrate layer that comprises the first groove and the second groove can also be to form different the first groove and the second grooves of the degree of depth, and the degree of depth of the first groove is greater than the degree of depth of the second groove.Can form respectively the first groove and the second groove by twice composition technique, also can adopt following step to realize, as shown in Figure 9:
Step 901, on insulated substrate film, apply photoresist;
Step 902, employing duotone mask plate, gray tone mask plate or intermediate tone mask plate carry out exposure imaging processing to photoresist, form complete reserve area, part reserve area and remove region completely;
Step 903, the etching for the first time of carrying out, etching is removed insulated substrate film corresponding to region completely, forms the pattern of the insulated substrate layer that comprises the first trench portions degree of depth;
Step 904, remove photoresist according to the thickness ashing of part reserve area photoresist, the photoresist of part reserve area is completely removed, and the photoresist of reserve area also has certain thickness completely;
Step 905, the etching for the second time of carrying out, etched portions reserve area and remove insulated substrate film corresponding to region completely, formation comprises the pattern of the insulated substrate layer of the first groove and the second groove, after now the degree of depth of the first groove equals the degree of depth of twice etching, the degree of depth of the first groove is greater than the degree of depth of the second groove.
Such scheme can form the first groove and the second groove by mask exposure, a twice etching, and operation is simple, can enhance productivity.
Embodiment six
The process flow diagram of the manufacture method of the liquid crystal display substrate that Figure 10 provides for the embodiment of the present invention six, comprises the steps:
Step 1001, on underlay substrate, form insulated substrate film;
Step 1002, on insulated substrate film, apply photoresist;
Step 1003, employing monotone mask plate carry out exposure imaging processing to photoresist, form and remove region and complete reserve area completely;
Step 1004, insulated substrate film is carried out to etching, form the pattern of the insulated substrate layer that comprises the first groove;
Step 1005, on the insulated substrate layer that is coated with photoresist, deposit grid metallic film, grid deposit metal films is in photoresist and the first groove;
Step 1006, can adopt the method stripping photoresists such as laser and on grid metallic film, form and comprise the pattern of gate electrode, controlling grid scan line and public electrode wire, and gate electrode, controlling grid scan line and public electrode wire are retained in the first groove;
Step 1007, form gate insulation layer, active layer film and data wire metal film forming on the underlay substrate of gate electrode, controlling grid scan line and public electrode wire;
Step 1008, data line metallic film and active layer film are carried out to composition technique, form the pattern that comprises data line, source electrode, drain electrode and active layer;
Step 1009, on the underlay substrate that forms data line, source electrode, drain electrode and active layer, form passivation layer film;
Step 1010, passivation layer film is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern of the passivation layer that comprises via hole;
Step 1011, on passivation layer pixel deposition electrode film;
Step 1012, pixel electrode film is carried out to composition technique, form the pattern that comprises pixel electrode.
On the basis of technique scheme, can also further form gate electrode, after controlling grid scan line and public electrode wire, to forming gate electrode, on the insulated substrate layer of controlling grid scan line and public electrode wire, carry out composition technique, on insulated substrate layer, form the pattern of the second groove, so that the gate insulation layer forming subsequently, active layer, data line, source electrode and drain electrode are formed on the insulated substrate layer with the second groove, the second groove respective data lines, the position of at least one in source electrode and drain electrode, thereby reduce data line, the thickness limits of source electrode and/or drain electrode.
The manufacture method of liquid crystal display substrate provided by the present invention can be used for preparing liquid crystal display substrate of the present invention, but liquid crystal display substrate of the present invention is not limited to be prepared by above-mentioned manufacture method, can also adopt additive method to prepare.Technical scheme of the present invention provides a kind of technical scheme that can reduce conductive structure thickness limits.Each conductive structure thickness can suitably increase, this can bring many-sided advantage: the resistance that can reduce by thickness increase conductive structure, for example the resistance of controlling grid scan line, gate electrode, data line, source electrode and drain electrode reduces, can reduce RC value, thereby optimize the lag characteristic of TFT switch, improve display quality; Can increase under the prerequisite of thickness, just can suitably reduce the width of conductive structure pattern, can improve the area of transmission region, improve aperture opening ratio; Lower floor's conductive structure embeds in groove, makes in the time of the pattern of etching upper strata conductive structure, and photoresist can apply more evenly, and pattern etch is more accurate, is not prone to broken string; Controlling grid scan line and gate electrode embed in groove, the thickness of gate insulation layer can suitably be reduced, can shorten the distance between gate electrode and source electrode and drain electrode, and then can reduce the magnitude of voltage of gate electrode drive TFT switch open, can reduce driving power consumption.
Technical scheme of the present invention is not only applicable to liquid crystal display substrate, is also applicable to various semiconductor integrated devices.
Finally it should be noted that: above embodiment only, in order to technical scheme of the present invention to be described, is not intended to limit; Although the present invention is had been described in detail with reference to previous embodiment, those of ordinary skill in the art is to be understood that: its technical scheme that still can record aforementioned each embodiment is modified, or part technical characterictic is wherein equal to replacement; And these modifications or replacement do not make the essence of appropriate technical solution depart from the spirit and scope of various embodiments of the present invention technical scheme.