Abstract: A liquid crystal display employs an on-common storage capacitor which includes a lower storage electrode of a predetermined size provided in the same layer that a signal line is formed, and a pixel electrode provided on the lower storage electrode, and functioning as an upper storage electrode. A method of fabricating the liquid crystal display is also provided.

Abstract: A lamp driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display includes a plurality of lamps arranged with a predetermined distance between adjacent lamps; a comparator to compare output voltages of lamps that are separated by more than the lamp distance; and a power interceptor to cut off the power supply of a lamp where mis-discharge is generated, in accordance with a comparison result of the comparator. A lamp driving method of a liquid crystal display which includes: comparing a designated reference voltage with lamp output voltages, and intercepting the power supply of the lamp of which the output voltage is different from the reference voltage to stop mis-discharge between lamps.

Abstract: A direct type backlight assembly includes at least one light lamp under a liquid crystal panel, having two substrates bonded with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. A light guide plate is positioned between adjacent light lamps. A reflective plate is under the light lamps and the light guide plate. At least one optical sheet covers an entire surface over the light guide plate. A case receives the above components. The backlight assembly prevents sagging of the optical sheets.

Abstract: A light source module includes a light guide plate having a light incident surface receiving light and a light emitting surface emitting the received light, a board arranged adjacent to the light guide plate and having a light source mounting surface, at least one first light source disposed on the light source mounting surface of the board to provide a first light to the light incident surface of the light guide plate, and at least one second light source disposed on both sides of the light source mounting surface adjacent to the first light source to provide a second light toward the first light source.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a substrate, a thin film transistor provided at an area adjacent to an intersection of a gate line and a data line on the substrate, a protective layer provided on the substrate to cover the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode provided on the protective layer and connected through the protective layer to the thin film transistor, a first hole in a surface of the pixel electrode and positioned above an adjacent gate line and a spacer positioned within the first hole.

Abstract: A mask for laser crystallization includes a transmissive portion defining a crystallization pattern and an alignment pattern. The alignment pattern includes a first pattern group having a size corresponding to the crystallization pattern and a second pattern group having a plurality of radial bars surrounding the first pattern group. A shielding portion surrounds the transmissive portion.

Abstract: An X-ray detecting device and a fabricating method thereof that is capable of preventing breakage of a transparent electrode. In the device and method, a contact hole passing through a protective film is formed centering around a contact hole passing through a storage insulating film. Accordingly, step coverage of a transparent electrode provided on the protective film can stabilized to prevent breakage of the transparent electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor having a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode; a data line connected to the source electrode; a gate line connected to the gate electrode; a storage capacitor connected to the drain electrode; a data line capacitor connected to the data line; a first switch connected to the data line; a tank capacitor connected to the first switch; and a common voltage transmission line connected to the tank capacitor to supply a common voltage.

Abstract: An in plane switching (IPS) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is fabricated with a reduced number of mask processes and includes a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate with a TFT provided at a crossing of gate and data lines, a protective film protecting the TFT, a pixel electrode connected to the TFT, a common line substantially parallel to the pixel electrode, a common electrode connected to the common line to generate a horizontal electric field with the pixel electrode, and a pad including a transparent conductive material and connected to the gate line, the data line and/or the common line. A color filter array substrate is joined to, and overlaps a portion of, the TFT array substrate. Portions of the protective film where the color filter array substrate which do not overlap the TFT array substrate are removed to expose the transparent conductive material included in the pad.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate includes a first conductive pattern group including a gate electrode of a thin film transistor and a gate line connected to the gate electrode; a semiconductor pattern defining a channel of the thin film transistor; a second conductive pattern group including source and drain electrodes of the thin film transistor and a data line crossing the gate line, a pixel area being defined by the data line crossing the gate line; a third conductive pattern group having a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and at least one dummy pattern disposed between at least one of the first to third conductive pattern groups and an adjacent one of the semiconductor patterns.

Abstract: Provided is an array substrate of an LCD that includes a substrate, an active layer, a first insulating layer, and a gate electrode sequentially formed on the substrate. A source region and a drain region reside in predetermined regions of the active layer and each is doped with impurity ions. A second insulating layer overlies an entire surface of the substrate including the gate electrode. A pixel electrode resides on the second insulating layer. First and second contact holes reside in the first and second insulating layer and expose portions of the source region and the drain region, respectively. A portion of a source electrode contacts the source region through the first contact hole and a first portion of a drain electrode contacts the drain region and a second portion contacts the pixel electrode.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes a vacuum processing chamber having a single substrate entrance for loading and unloading first and second substrates, upper and lower stages disposed within the vacuum processing chamber for affixing the first and second substrates, and a stage moving system for providing relative movement of the upper and lower stages.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for driving an organic light emitting display so as to minimize or prevent a raindrop phenomenon and an afterimage is provided. The apparatus and method determines the driving state of a pixel unit by using a vertical sync signal, and turns on or off the determined driving state of the pixel unit. The supply of the power voltage is sustained when the pixel unit is driven, and is turned off when the pixel unit is not driven. Accordingly, the apparatus and method can minimize or prevent a raindrop phenomenon and an afterimage by turning off the supply of the power voltage when the pixel unit is not driven.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-domain, specifically 4-domain, liquid crystal display and a method for manufacturing the same. In one aspect, the liquid crystal display includes a pair of opposed substrates and a liquid crystal injected and sealed between the substrates. A first region and a second region on the first substrate have different alignment directions due to a photosensitive alignment film formed on the first substrate. Each pixel on the second substrate exhibits four different liquid crystal alignment directions when an electric field is applied. This occurs because a fringe field is generated by a slit-patterned pixel electrode of the second substrate, and different alignment directions are formed in the first substrate.

Abstract: An LCD device including: a gate line on a substrate along a first direction; a data line in a second direction perpendicular to the gate line to define a unit pixel region, wherein the data line has recesses on a first side of the data line; a repair pattern having ends crossing the data line at the recesses of the data line; a thin film transistor adjacent to a crossing of the gate line and the data line, the thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode; a passivation layer over an entire surface of the substrate including the thin film transistor; and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode through the passivation layer.

Abstract: A device for fabricating LCD devices includes a base frame, a lower chamber unit on the base frame, an upper chamber unit over the lower chamber unit and moveable over the base frame, chamber moving means for raising/lowering the upper chamber unit, stages within interior spaces of the upper and lower chamber units, wherein substrates are securable to each of the stages, and sealing means on at least one surface of the chamber units for sealing an interior space definable by joined upper and lower chamber units, the substrates being within the sealed interior space. A method for fabricating LCD devices includes loading substrates onto stages, lowering an upper chamber unit to seal an interior space from an external environment, evacuating the sealed interior space, aligning the first and second substrates, contacting the first and second substrates with sealant material, venting the sealed interior space, and unloading the bonded substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal dispensing apparatus dispenses liquid crystal onto a substrate. The liquid crystal dispensing apparatus includes a frame, a table, at least one liquid crystal discharge device, and a liquid crystal amount inspecting portion. The table is installed on the frame to have the substrate to be mounted thereon. The liquid crystal discharge device adjustably discharges an amount of liquid crystal, and the liquid crystal amount inspecting portion inspects a liquid crystal dispensing amount by comparing an actual amount of liquid crystal discharged from the liquid crystal discharge device with a preset liquid crystal amount. The liquid crystal discharge device includes a piston to perform ascending motions to draw in the liquid crystal and descending motions to discharge the liquid crystal with an angle of at least a portion of the liquid crystal discharge device determining a magnitude of the ascending/descending motion to control an amount of liquid crystal discharged.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a field sequential liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a backlight device under the liquid crystal panel for irradiating light to the liquid crystal panel and having three color light sources; and an image signal processor controlling a sequential lighting order and combination of the three color light sources.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes a transparent substrate having at least first, second and third pixels defined thereon, a first longitudinal bank located between the first pixel and the second pixel, a second longitudinal bank located between the second pixel and the third pixel, and an organic luminous polymer layer over the substrate and between the first longitudinal bank and the second longitudinal bank. The device also includes a transverse bank extending between the first longitudinal bank and the second longitudinal bank. Sidewalls of the longitudinal banks and the transverse bank slope outwardly. The transverse bank has a height which is less than a height of the longitudinal banks. A method of forming the device utilizes nozzle coating or ink-jet coating, and a specially configured mask for producing the banks of differing heights.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an LCD includes the steps of (a) loading a first substrate and a second substrate having seals formed thereon on a bonding chamber, (b) bonding the first and second substrates, (c) fixing the bonded first and second substrates, and (d) unloading the fixed first and second substrates.