Patent ID: 6858477

Claim:
A method of forming an active plate for a liquid crystal display, comprising: depositing and patterning a gate conductor layer over an insulating substrate; depositing a gate insulator layer over the patterned gate conductor layer; depositing a silicon layer over the gate insulator layer, the silicon layer comprising plasma deposition from a gas comprising at least a compound including an n-type dopant atom and a gas containing silicon, with the ratio of the volume of the compound to the volume of the gas containing silicon being selected to give a doping density of the n-type dopant atoms in the silicon layer of between 2.5×10 16 and 1.5×10 18 atoms per cm 3 ; depositing and patterning a source and drain conductor layer over the silicon layer; and forming a pixel electrode layer for contacting one of the source and drain of the transistor.