US 7,501,653 B2
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device having a circuit including thin film transistors
Yasuyuki Arai, Kanagawa (Japan); and Shinji Maekawa, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-Ken (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/222,763.
Application 11/222763 is a division of application No. 10/959071, filed on Oct. 07, 2004, granted, now 6,953,717.
Application 10/959071 is a division of application No. 10/112717, filed on Apr. 02, 2002, granted, now 6,809,023.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-109295 (JP), filed on Apr. 06, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2006/0006388 A1, Jan. 12, 2006
Int. Cl. H01L 29/04 (2006.01); H01L 31/20 (2006.01); H01L 31/036 (2006.01); H01L 31/0376 (2006.01); H01L 27/01 (2006.01); H01L 27/12 (2006.01); H01L 31/0392 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 257—59  [257/72; 257/347] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
a silicon nitride film on an insulating surface;
a light shielding film over the patterned silicon nitride film;
a silicon oxide film formed over the patterned light shielding film;
a semiconductor layer over the silicon oxide film;
a gate insulating film covering the semiconductor layer; and a wiring formed over the gate insulating film, wherein the wiring is electrically connected to the light shielding film.