Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a plurality of pixels formed in row and column directions; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a first liquid crystal layer filled inside a microcavity formed on the pixel electrode; a plurality of roof layers formed to be separated from the pixel electrode with the microcavity and an injection hole therebetween; and an overcoat formed on the roof layer to cover the injection hole and encapsulate the microcavity. The first liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal molecule and a color material. It is possible to simplify a structure of the display device and reduce the number of manufacturing processes thereof by adding a color material to a liquid crystal material of the display device manufactured with a single substrate such that a color filter may be removed.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display, including: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a first color pixel area, a second color pixel area, and a third color pixel area formed on the first substrate or the second substrate, wherein the first, second, and third color pixel areas respectively include one of a red filter, a green filter, and a blue filter, and a cross-section of the blue filter has an at least approximately parabolic or semicircular shape. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to prevent excessively yellow images and improve luminance thereof by changing a shape of a blue color filter included in the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A phase shift device includes a phase shift mask which includes a transparent substrate, and a phase shift pattern which is provided on the transparent substrate, and includes a first area having a first thickness, a second area having a second thickness which is less than the first thickness, a first opening having a first opening width and defined at the first area, and a second opening having a second opening width and defined at the second area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines that is insulated from and cross the plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of unit pixels connected to the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, wherein the plurality of unit pixel includes a first pixel at row 1 and column 1, a second pixel at row 1 and column 2, a third pixel at row 2 and column 1, and a fourth pixel at row 2 and column 2, a first gate line and a second gate line are disposed in parallel to each other between the first pixel and the third pixel and between the second pixel and the fourth pixel, and the first gate line is connected to the first pixel and the third pixel at different neighboring rows, and the second gate line is connected to the second pixel and the fourth pixel at different neighboring rows.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate including first to fourth color pixel areas, first to fourth thin film transistors disposed on the first substrate, and first to fourth pixel electrodes connected to the first to fourth thin film transistors. Each of the first to fourth pixel electrodes includes a cross stem portion including a horizontal stem portion and a vertical stem portion crossing the horizontal stem portion, and minute branch portions extending from the cross stem portion at a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal direction. A third angle of the minute branch portions of the third pixel electrode is greater than each of first and second angles of the minute branch portions of the respective first and second pixel electrodes. Each of the first and second angles is greater than a fourth angle of the minute branch portions of the fourth pixel electrode.

Abstract: A display device includes red, blue, green, and white pixels, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of storage electrodes lines. Each of the red, blue, green, and white pixels includes first to third thin film transistors, a first subpixel electrode connected to an output terminal of the first thin film transistor, and a second subpixel electrode connected to the output terminal of the second thin film transistor. A channel width of a third thin film transistor in each of the red and green pixels is larger than that of a third thin film transistor in each of the blue and white pixels, or a channel length of the third thin film transistor in each of the red and green pixels is longer than that of the third thin film transistor in each of the blue and white pixels.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a display device and a driving method thereof. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to a display device including a white pixel, and a method of driving such a display device. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of colored pixels and a white pixel, wherein the colored pixels and the white pixel each include at least one switching element, the colored pixels and the white pixel are disposed to be adjacent to each other so as to collectively have a center, and the switching elements are each positioned proximate to the center.

Abstract: A display device includes a red pixel, a blue pixel, a green pixel, and a white pixel; a plurality of gate lines and data lines; and a plurality of storage electrode lines. Each of the red pixel, the blue pixel, and the green pixel includes two subpixel electrodes connected to a same gate line and a same data line and charged with different voltages. Every subpixel electrode included in the white pixel and connected to a same gate line and a same data line have a same voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second sub-pixels charged with the same voltage during a first period. The voltage charged in the second sub-pixel is decreased after the first period. Since the voltage level of the first sub-pixel is different from the voltage level of the second sub-pixel after the first period, liquid crystal molecules disposed corresponding to the first sub-pixel are aligned in a direction different from that of liquid crystal molecules disposed corresponding to the second sub-pixel. Thus, a side viewing angle of the liquid crystal display is improved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The common electrode includes a first cross-shaped cutout overlapping the pixel electrode, and a second cutout parallel to an edge of the pixel electrode, the second cutout being separated from the edge of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The pixels include pixels arranged in a k-th row and pixels arranged in a (k+1)th row disposed adjacent to the pixels arranged in the k-th row in the second direction. An (i+1)th gate line is disposed between the pixels in the k-th row and the pixels in the (k+1)th row. A first pixel arranged in a g-th column among the pixels arranged in the k-th row and a second pixel arranged in the g-th column among the pixels arranged in the (k+1)th row are connected to a j-th data line. The pixels arranged in the k-th row are alternately connected to an i-th gate line and the (i+1)th gate line.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines configured to receive gate signals, data lines arranged to cross the gate lines and configured to receive data voltages, and pixels grouped into first pixel groups and second pixel groups and connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The gate signals are configured to be applied to the gate lines in a predetermined order while skipping at least one gate line without being sequentially and consecutively applied to two gate lines adjacent to each other among the gate lines.

Abstract: A display apparatus with improved aperture ratio and light transmittance is presented. The apparatus has a pixel group that includes a first pixel including first and second sub-regions, a second pixel including third and fourth sub-regions, and a third pixel including fifth and sixth sub-regions. The first, second, and third pixels are sequentially arranged in a first direction and at least two sub-regions of the first, third, and fifth sub-regions have different widths in the first direction. The second, fourth, and sixth sub-regions are sequentially arranged in the first direction, and at least one sub-region of the second, fourth, and sixth sub-regions expands toward an adjacent sub-region in the first direction and has a width greater than a width of the other sub-regions of the second, fourth, and sixth sub-regions in the same pixel group.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The common electrode includes a first cross-shaped cutout overlapping the pixel electrode, and a second cutout parallel to an edge of the pixel electrode, the second cutout being separated from the edge of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that allows efficient luminance control is presented. The device includes: first, second, and third color pixel areas; a first substrate and a second substrate; a first color filter disposed in the first color pixel area on the first substrate or the second substrate; a second color filter disposed in the second color pixel area on the first substrate or the second substrate; a third color filter disposed in the third color pixel area on the first substrate or the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first color pixel area includes a first transparent region at which the first color filter is not disposed, and a ratio of the first transparent region of the first color pixel area to the first color pixel area is in a range of 1/1000 to ½, inclusive.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, a liquid crystal display panel including white pixels and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of color filters positioned on the first substrate and representing different colors from each other, in which at least two of the plurality of color filters overlap with each other on the first substrate to form an overlapping portion, and the overlapping portion forms a first spacer; a transparent filter positioned on the first substrate and positioned in a transmitting area of a white pixel; and a second spacer including the same material as the transparent filter.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second sub-pixels charged with the same voltage during a first period. The voltage charged in the second sub-pixel is decreased after the first period. Since the voltage level of the first sub-pixel is different from the voltage level of the second sub-pixel after the first period, liquid crystal molecules disposed corresponding to the first sub-pixel are aligned in a direction different from that of liquid crystal molecules disposed corresponding to the second sub-pixel. Thus, a side viewing angle of the liquid crystal display is improved.

Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes: a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction; a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction; and a plurality of pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines, wherein the pixels include pixels h-th row pixels (h is a natural number) and (h+1)-th row pixels, which are adjacent to each other in the second direction, with a (k+1)-th gate line (k is a natural number) therebetween among the gate lines; and a first pixel displaying a first color and connected to the (k+1)-th gate line among the h-th row pixels and a second pixel displaying the first color and connected to the (k+1)-th gate line among the (h+1)-th row pixels are spaced apart from each other in the first direction and receive different polarities of data voltages.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel includes a substrate, a gate line extending in a first direction on the substrate, a data line extending in a second direction on the substrate and intersecting the gate line, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, an insulating layer on the gate line, the data line, and the thin film transistor, a first auxiliary line on the insulating layer and connected to the gate line, a second auxiliary line on the insulating layer and connected to the data line, and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor.

Abstract: An electric-field exposure method includes forming a display cell. The display cell comprises a pixel electrode electrically connected to a data line and a gate line. A guard-ring line surrounds a display area on which the pixel electrode is disposed. A common electrode overlaps the guard-ring line. A resistance division part is connected to a node which is connected to a data pad and a gate pad. A first electrode and a second electrode are provided with first and second electronic signals, respectively. The first electrode is connected to the guard-ring line. The second electrode is electrically connected to the common electrode. The node is provided with a divided signal obtained by dividing the first and second signals through the resistance division part.