The invention provides an array substrate, a display panel and a manufacturing method of the array substrate. The array substrate is provided with a display area and an under-screen camera area, and comprises a substrate, a
driving circuit layer, a flat layer, a common
electrode layer, an insulating layer and a pixel
electrode layer which are sequentially arranged in a stacked mode from bottom totop, wherein the flat layer is provided with a groove in the under-screen camera area. The display panel comprises the array substrate. According to the invention, the groove is formed in the flat layer in the under-screen camera area, so that the thickness of the
liquid crystal layer of the display panel in the under-screen camera area at the position corresponding to the groove is increased, thus the thickness of the
liquid crystal layer is increased to about five microns from about three microns in the past, the
optical path of light passing through the
liquid crystal layer is increased, the
scattering effect of the light is improved, the
haze of the liquid
crystal layer is increased, the technical problem of low
haze of the under-screen camera area is solved, the
contrast ratio of theunder-screen camera area is improved, and the
image display effect is enhanced.