An conductive coating serves as a light shield film and is kept at a give
voltage. A metal interconnection is located in the same layer as a source
line and connected to the drain of a thin-film transistor. An interlayer
insulating film is constituted of at least lower and upper insulating
layers and formed between the conductive coating and the source line.
According to one aspect of the invention, an auxiliary capacitor is
formed by the metal interconnection and the conductive coating serving as
both electrodes and at least the lower insulating layer film serving as a
dielectric. The auxiliary capacitor is formed in a region of the
interlayer insulating film in which the upper insulating layer has been
removed by etching. According to another aspect of the invention, the
conductive coating has a portion that is in contact with the lower
insulating layer in a region where the conductive coating coextends with
the metal interconnection.