Background

LCD Panel fabrication

• Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) panel is structured that Liquid
Crystal is sandwiched by two glass substrates with
– Thin Film Transistor (TFT)
– Color filter (CF) Polarizer
Black matrix Glass substrate for CF

Color dye Liquid crystals

R, G, and B
Glass substrate for TFT

Polarizer
Pixel
Transistor electrode

Sharp homepage, “Sharp High Technology/ LCD World/ Chapter 2/ 1-1, Principle of LCD Technology”, Copyright (1999).

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 Deposition
Cleaning

LCD panel fabrication process Photo Resist Coating

Exposure
Gate Metal by PEP
Developing
a-Si by PEP Black matrix by PEP Etching

ITO by PEP Red printing Photo Resist Stripping

Inspection
Insulator PEP Green printing
1 Photo Engraving Process cycle
Source/drain by PEP Blue printing

Passivation by PEP ITO by PEP

Alignment film

Spacer dispersion TAB bonding

Cell separation Back-light mount
Sealing material Alignment film
LC filling Print Circuit Board

Sealing Polarizer film Bending TAB

Array test Lighting test

Y. Suzuki, “Special Report, Color TFT LCD production processes, LCD Module
recent topics”, Electronic Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp73-79, (1993)

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