Patent ID: 8592262

Claim:
A method for preventing an unwanted electrical contact in a display panel, wherein the display panel comprises a substrate and a plurality of pixels formed on the substrate, said method comprising: creating a clearing pattern in at least some of the pixels, wherein each of said at least some of the pixels comprises a signal line, a passivation layer and a pixel electrode disposed on a section of the passivation layer, the clearing pattern including at least one cleared area in the passivation layer adjacent to said section of the passivation layer, wherein said at least one cleared area is configured to separate and disconnect a first section of the passivation layer from a second section of the passivation layer for preventing electrical connection between the first section and the second section caused by an unwanted electrically conductive segment electrically connected to the pixel electrode and located between the signal line and the pixel electrode, wherein the unwanted electrically conductive segment comprises an electrically conductive layer deposited on the passivation layer, and the cleared area is dimensioned to prevent said electrically conductive layer from forming a continuous layer over the cleared area.