Appeal No. 2005-0776
Application No. 09/898,321
second lines, an air gap between the top surface of one line and
the bottom surface of the other line. Claim 1, which claims the
integrated circuit, is illustrative:
1. An integrated circuit comprising:
a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in rows and
columns;
a plurality of first lines, each first line connected
to a corresponding column of pixel circuits; and
a plurality of second lines, each second line connected
to a corresponding row of pixel circuits,
wherein the plurality of first lines are formed such
that each first line extends over the plurality of second
lines at corresponding crossover locations, and
wherein an air-gap is defined at each crossover
location that separates each first line from the plurality
of second lines, wherein each air-gap extends from a top
surface of a corresponding second line to a bottom surface
of said each first line.[1]
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Antonuk et al. (Antonuk) 5,262,649 Nov. 16, 1993
Kingsley et al. (Kingsley) 5,587,591 Dec. 24, 1996
Pedder 5,604,658 Feb. 18, 1997
Fukuda et al. (Fukuda) 5,623,161 Apr. 22, 1997
1 It appears that in claim 8, in “a plurality of gate lines,
each gate line connected to the access transistors of a
corresponding column of pixel circuits”, “column” should be
“row”, and in “a plurality of data lines, each data line
connected to the access transistors of a corresponding row of
pixel circuits”, “row” should be “column”. See the
specification, page 4, last sentence of paragraph 0007, and
page 7, last sentence of paragraph 0019.
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