Patent ID: 7407841

Claim:
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, comprising: forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming a gate insulating film on the gate electrode formed thereon; forming an amorphous silicon film on the gate insulating film; forming an insulating pattern on the amorphous silicon film; crystallizing the amorphous silicon film into a polycrystalline silicon film using a derivative metal, the polycrystalline silicon film having source, drain and channel areas, wherein the insulating pattern overlaps the channel area of the polycrystalline silicon film; and forming source and drain electrodes on the polycrystalline silicon film, wherein the source and the drain electrodes contacting the source and drain areas of the polycrystalline silicon film, respectively; wherein crystallizing the amorphous silicon film into a polycrystalline silicon film using a derivative metal further includes: forming the derivative metal on the insulating pattern and the amorphous silicon film; injecting an impurity ion into the amorphous silicon film having the derivative metal formed thereon; and applying a heat and an electric field to the amorphous silicon film, wherein the impurity ion injected into the amorphous silicon film is activated during the application of the heat; and wherein forming source and drain electrodes on the polycrystalline silicon film further includes: forming sequentially a data metal layer and the photo-resist on the polycrystalline film; forming a stepped photo-resist pattern with a mask having a partially exposing part: etching the data metal layer and the polycrystalline silicon film using the stepped photo-resist pattern; ashing the stepped photo-resist pattern; and etching the data metal layer using the ashed photo-resist pattern, thereby exposing the insulating pattern overlapping the channel area of the polycrystalline silicon film.