A semiconductor device having a semiconductor element (a thin film
transistor, a thin film diode, a photoelectric conversion element of
silicon PIN junction, or a silicon resistor element) which is
light-weight, flexible (bendable), and thin as a whole is provided as
well as a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. In the
present invention, the element is not formed on a plastic film. Instead,
a flat board such as a substrate is used as a form, the space between the
substrate (third substrate (17)) and a layer including the element
(peeled layer (13)) is filled with coagulant (typically an adhesive) that
serves as a second bonding member (16), and the substrate used as a form
(third substrate (17)) is peeled off after the adhesive is coagulated to
hold the layer including the element (peeled layer (13)) by the
coagulated adhesive (second bonding member (16)) alone. In this way, the
present invention achieves thinning of the film and reduction in weight.