A light-emitting device which realizes a high aperture ratio and in which
the quality of image is little affected by the variation in the
characteristics of TFTs. A large holding capacitor Cs is not provided in
the pixel portion but, instead, the channel length and the channel width
of the driving TFTs are increased, and the channel capacitance is
utilized as Cs. The channel length is selected to be very larger than the
channel width to improve current characteristics in the saturated region,
and a high V.sub.GS is applied to the driving TFTs to obtain a desired
drain current. Therefore, the drain currents of the driving TFTs are
little affected by the variation in the threshold voltage. In laying out
the pixels, further, wiring is arranged under the partitioning wall and
the driving TFTs are arranged under the wiring in order to avoid a
decrease in the aperture ratio despite of an increase in the size of the
driving TFT. In the case of the 3-transistor pixels, the switching TFT
and the erasing TFT are linearly arranged to further increase the
aperture ratio.