Patent 8008135 was granted and assigned to AU Optronics on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for manufacturing a pixel structure includes providing a substrate having an active device thereon and forming a dielectric layer covering the active device. The dielectric layer has a contact hole disposed over the active device. Next, a first photoresist layer is formed on the dielectric layer over the active device, and a transparent conductive layer is formed to cover a portion of the dielectric layer and the first photoresist layer. The transparent conductive layer is electrically connected to the active device via the contact hole. Besides, the transparent conductive layer is irradiated with use of a laser beam, and a portion of the transparent conductive layer on the first photoresist layer is removed, such that the other portion of the transparent conductive layer on the portion of the dielectric layer forms a pixel electrode. The first patterned photoresist layer is then removed.