US Patent 7586131 Transistor array and active-matrix substrate

A transistor array includes conductor lines, function lines, and transistors. Each of the conductor lines includes a core and a conductor layer that covers the core. Each of the function lines includes a core, at least the surface of which is electrically conductive, an insulating layer that covers the core, and a semiconductor layer that covers the insulating layer. Each of the function lines contacts with, and crosses, the conductor lines. Each of the transistors includes a first ohmic contact region, which is defined by a region where one of the conductor lines crosses one of the function lines and which makes an ohmic contact with the semiconductor layer, a second ohmic contact region, which also makes an ohmic contact with the semiconductor layer, and a channel region, which is defined in the semiconductor layer between the first and second ohmic contact regions.