Abstract: An electrophoretic display device sequentially driven during a data updating period when a data is updated and a sleep-mode period when a data is maintained includes an electrophoretic display panel including a plurality of data lines crossing a plurality of gate lines to form a plurality of cells, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a common electrode for driving each of the plurality of cells, and a TFT at a crossing of one of the data lines and one of the gate lines to supply a data voltage from the one of the data lines to a corresponding one of the pixel electrodes; a data driving circuit supplying the data voltage to the data lines during the data updating period; a gate driving circuit supplying a scanning pulse to the gate lines during the data updating period; and a controller sequentially raising an impedance of each of the data lines, the common electrode, and the gate lines during the sleep-mode period.

Abstract: A substrate has intersecting gate and data lines with a gate insulating film therebetween, a thin film transistor provided at an intersection of the gate and data lines, a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, a pad connected to a signal line via a contact hole and containing a transparent conductive film, and a protective film overlapping a color filter array substrate to expose the film. The contact hole exposes the end of the pad and/or signal line and an adjacent area. A gate electrode, source and drain electrodes, and a contact electrode are formed from first, second, and third conductive layers, respectively. A contact hole exposes the first conductive layer of one transistor and an adjacent portion of the second conductive layer of another transistor. The contact electrode connects the exposed first and second conductive layers. Only three mask processes are used in fabricating the substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving a lamp comprising at least one lamp, an inverter to supply an alternating current signal, a transformer to boost the signal from the inverter and to supply the boosted signal to the lamp, and a safety circuit to detect the signal flowing to the lamp and to compare the signal with a predetermined threshold to shut down the inverter in accordance with the compared result.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display includes a linear polarizer for converting natural light into linearly polarized light; a retardation film for converting the linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light; a liquid crystal layer for varying the phase of the light differently depending on the presence or absence of an electric field; a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter for selectively reflecting light received from the liquid crystal layer; and a black background for absorbing light passing through the color filter.

Abstract: An inverter device for a liquid crystal display includes a transformer for receiving an inverter drive voltage, converting the received drive voltage into an AC lamp drive voltage and supplying the AC lamp drive voltage to a high path of a backlight lamp, a low path switching part selectively connecting a low path of the backlight lamp with a ground voltage source in response to an external inverter ON/OFF signal, and a shutdown circuit for receiving a voltage input through the low path of the backlight lamp to monitor for a malfunction of the backlight lamp in response to an external shutdown ON/OFF signal.

Abstract: A structure for securing lamp wires of a backlight assembly within an LCD module includes a liquid crystal panel, a mold frame, a lamp, and a structure for securing lamp wires within a backlight assembly within the LCD module. The structure includes an through which the lamp wires extend, lower and upper inserting grooves in lower and upper portions of the opening for receiving the lamp wires, and a tube for covering portions of a lamp wire to which a high voltage is applied. The tube covers portions of the lamp wire between a location at a junction wherein the lamp wire and the lamp are connected and a portion where the lamp wire extends through the opening.

Abstract: A method for forming a pattern is provided that includes: providing a cliché having a plurality of convex patterns; applying an adhesive force reinforcing agent onto each surface of the convex patterns; forming an etching object layer on a substrate and then applying ink onto an upper portion of the etching object layer; attaching the cliché and the substrate to each other such that the convex patterns onto which the adhesive force reinforcing agent is applied can come in contact with the ink applied onto the etching object layer; and forming ink patterns which selectively remain on the etching object layer by separating the substrate and the cliché from each other.

Abstract: An array substrate for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device include: a substrate; a gate line on the substrate; a common line on the substrate, the common line being parallel to and spaced apart from the gate line; a common electrode on the substrate. The common electrode includes: a plurality of vertical portions perpendicularly extended from the common line; and a horizontal portion combining the plurality of vertical portions. A gate insulating layer is provided on the gate line, the common line and the common electrode. A data line is provided on the gate insulating layer. A thin film transistor is connected to the gate line and the data line, the thin film transistor including an active layer, source and drain electrodes. A pixel electrode is provided on the gate insulating layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display to prevent seal opening and perform a Tape Automated Bonding (TAB) repair process. The method includes depositing an organic passivation layer on an entire area of a lower substrate where TFTs, data bus lines and data pads are formed, forming contact holes on source/drain electrodes, removing the organic passivation layer from a data pad area and a gate pad area, and using the organic passivation layer with contact holes as a mask, wherein the gate pad area is opened, and forming a reflection electrode or a pixel electrode on the lower substrate.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device including a first substrate and a second substrate, data lines and gate lines arranged in a matrix form on the first substrate to define a pixel, a thin film transistor at a cross portion of the gate and data lines, a black matrix over the gate lines, data lines, and the thin film transistor, a color filter layer in the pixel, at least a pair of a common electrode and a pixel electrode over the color filter layer and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: An array substrate device includes a gate line formed on a substrate extending along a first direction having a gate electrode, a data line formed on the substrate extending along a second direction having a data pad disposed apart from a first end of the data line, the data and gate lines defining a pixel region, a gate pad formed on the substrate disposed apart from a first end of the gate line, a thin film transistor formed at a crossing region of the gate and data lines and including the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, a black matrix overlapping the thin film transistor, the gate line, and the data line except for a first portion of the drain electrode, a first pixel electrode at the pixel region contacting the first portion of the drain electrode and the substrate, a color filter on the first pixel electrode at the pixel region, and a second pixel electrode on the color filter contacting the first pixel electrode.

Abstract: A field sequential liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal panel having an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, a back light disposed under the liquid crystal panel for irradiating a light to the liquid crystal panel and having 3 different light sources Red, Green and Blue sequentially driven; and an image signal processor controlling a lighting speed of each of the light sources Red, Green and Blue.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode LCD device is disclosed, in which high response time is obtained and residual images are prevented from occurring. The in-plane switching mode LCD device includes first and second substrates, common electrodes arranged on one of the two substrates in a substantially zigzag pattern, a pixel electrode arranged with a substantially zigzag pattern corresponding to the common electrodes roughly in parallel with the common electrodes, common electrode frames projected from a bent portion of the common electrodes, pixel electrode frames projected from a bent portion of the pixel electrodes, and a liquid crystal between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided that includes liquid crystal pixel cells arranged at each intersection between a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, a thin film transistor associated with each pixel cell, a storage capacitor, and a smectic liquid crystal between an upper substrate and a lower substrate. The smectic liquid crystal has spontaneous polarization in a range of approximately 2 nC/cm2 to 100 nC/cm2 and a storage capacitance is in a range of approximately 1 nF/cm2 to 13 nF/cm2 for optimizing transmittance depending on the spontaneous polarization of the smectic liquid crystal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for data-driving a liquid crystal display device is disclosed in the present invention.

Abstract: A method of crystallizing an amorphous silicon layer includes the steps of generating an excimer laser beam having a first energy density and a second energy density, irradiating an amorphous silicon layer with at least one exposure of the excimer, wherein the first energy density melts the amorphous silicon layer to a first depth from a surface of the amorphous silicon layer equal to the first thickness and the second energy density melts the amorphous silicon layer to a second depth from the surface of the amorphous silicon layer less than the first thickness.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel includes preparing first and second substrates having an active region, forming a sealant along a periphery of the active region on at least one of the first and second substrates, dispersing a liquid crystal material on the at least one substrate, the liquid crystal material having a photo-reactant material, attaching the first and second substrates, and irradiating ultraviolet light on an entire surface of the at least one substrate.

Abstract: An etchant for patterning indium tin oxide, wherein the etchant is a mixed solution of HCl, CH3COOH, and water, and a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes forming a gate electrode on a substrate, forming a gate insulating layer and an amorphous silicon layer on the gate electrode including the substrate, forming an active area by patterning the amorphous silicon layer, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on the active area, forming a passivation layer on the source electrode and the drain electrode and the gate insulating layer, forming a contact hole exposing a part of the drain electrode, forming an indium tin oxide layer on the passivation layer, and forming an indium tin oxide electrode by selectively etching the indium tin oxide layer using a mixed solution of HCl, CH3COOH, and water as an etchant.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device enabling to form a uniform gate insulating layer in thickness. The present includes the steps of forming a gate line, a gate electrode, and a storage line on a substrate and forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate including the gate line and the gate electrode using first and second gases having a gas mixture ratio of 0.3˜0.5:1. And, the first and second gases are mono-silane(SiH4) and ammonia(NH3), respectively. Accordingly, the present invention enables a uniformly thick gate insulating layer, thereby to improving the discharging time as well as reducing flicker on the screen.

Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display and a fabricating method thereof enabling to improve an opening ratio of the liquid crystal display by modifying a structure of a thin film transistor. Each pixel of the liquid crystal display includes a gate line formed on a substrate in one direction with a predetermined interval from another one, a data line formed in a direction perpendicular to the gate line so as to define a pixel area, a thin film transistor formed on the gate line at an intersection between the gate and data lines, and a pixel electrode formed in the pixel area.