Appeal No. 96-1467 Application No. 08/247,452 § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 22-32, which constitute all the claims remaining in the application. The disclosed invention pertains to an electro-optical device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix arrangement. The pixels are switched on and off by thin film transistors (TFTs). The TFTs have a hydrogen-doped semiconductor layer as an active region, and the semiconductor layer has a crystalline structure with lattice distortion. Representative claim 22 is reproduced as follows: 22. An electro-optical device comprising: a pair of substrates; a light influencing layer disposed between said substrates; an electrode arrangement formed on an inside surface of at least one of said substrates, with which a plurality of pixels are defined in said influencing layer; thin film transistors provided for said pixels; and a driving circuit for supplying a control signal to said thin film transistors, wherein said thin film transistors have a hydrogen- doped semiconductor layer as an active region, said semiconductor layer having a crystalline structure with lattice distortion, and having one of an electron mobility in 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007