Patent ID: 7811867

Claim:
A method for manufacturing the pixel structure, comprising: providing a substrate; forming a gate on the substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate to cover the gate; forming a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer over the gate; forming a second metal layer on the semiconductor layer; forming a patterned photoresist layer on the second metal layer, and removing a portion of the second metal layer and a portion of the semiconductor layer by using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask to form a channel layer, a source, and a drain on the gate insulating layer over the gate simultaneously, wherein the source and the drain are disposed on a portion of the channel layer, and the gate, the channel layer, the source, and the drain constitute a thin film transistor; forming a passivation layer on the patterned photoresist layer, the gate insulating layer, and the thin film transistor; removing the patterned photoresist layer, wherein the passivation layer on the patterned photoresist layer is removed simultaneously to form a patterned passivation layer and to expose the source and the drain; and forming a pixel electrode on the patterned passivation layer and the drain.