Patent ID: 7651876

Claim:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure, comprising: providing a substrate; forming an active device comprising a drain having a boundary on the substrate; forming a protective layer on the substrate, overlying the active device; forming a photoresist layer having a first thickness and a second thickness on the protective layer, wherein the first thickness exceeds the second thickness and the photoresist layer with the second thickness overlies the boundary of the drain; defining the protective layer using the photoresist layer as a mask to expose a portion of the drain; removing the photoresist layer with the second thickness to leave the protective layer overlying the boundary of the drain; depositing a transparent conductive layer on the substrate, overlying the protective layer overlying the boundary of the drain, electrically connected to the exposed drain; and removing the remaining photoresist layer and the transparent conductive layer formed thereon to form a pixel electrode.