The present disclosure provides a thin-film
transistor and its fabrication process, as well as a display panel. The thin-film
transistor comprises a substrate, an
active layer, and a first gate
electrode arranged on the substrate. The
active layer comprises a first film layer and a second film layer arranged one above the other on the substrate. The second film layer is located between the first film layer and the first gate
electrode. The first film layer comprises
oxygen elements, the second film layer comprises a
crystalline oxide, and the first and second film
layers are formed by simultaneous annealing. In the thin-film
transistor, annealing allows some of the
oxygen elements originally present in the first film layer to penetrate into the second film layer to supplement the existing
oxygen, so that the second film layer is not exposed to a high-oxygen environment (e.g.,at
high oxygen partial pressure). This prevents the second film layer from making the thin-film
transistor channel conductive due to an insufficient
oxygen content, while it also prevents the second film layer from causing
etching residue due to high
etching difficulty caused by an excessive
oxygen content during the
etching process.