Patent ID: 8766244

Claim:
A pixel control structure for use in a backplane for an electronic display comprising: a transistor that has a gate; a source; a drain; and an organic semiconductor element that is electrically connected to the source and the drain; wherein the pixel control structure is formed by a first patterned conductive layer portion that comprises the gate, a second patterned conductive layer portion that comprises the source and the drain, a dielectric layer portion separating the first and second conductive layer portion, and an organic patterned semiconductive layer portion that comprises the semiconductor element of the transistor; and wherein the first patterned conductive layer portion and the second patterned conductive layer portion respectively have a first edge portion and a second edge portion, said first and second edge portions determining an overlap region wherein the second patterned conductive layer portion overlaps the first patterned conductive layer portion, and the overlap region is bounded along the first and second edge portions, wherein the patterned semiconductive layer portion extends over the overlap region and away from the overlap region so as to extend over both first and second edge portions to thereby shield the dielectric layer from the second edge portion.