Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of drain bus lines. A plurality of pixel regions are defined by the gate bus lines and the drain bus lines. Pixel electrodes are divided into at least four regions such that at least four domains of different liquid crystal orientation directions are defined within the pixel regions. The first and second regions each include a micro-cutout pattern including a plurality of cutouts extending in a slanted direction with respect to an edge of the first or second region, respectively, and the cutouts of the first region and the cutouts of the second region are generally parallel to each other both within each of the regions as well as across the first and second regions.

Abstract: In order to provide a method for manufacturing a wiring board free from contact fault, a method of the present invention, which manufactures a wiring board (1) including an Al alloy pad (3) on a base layer (2), a gate insulating film (4) and an interlayer insulating film (5) above the Al alloy pad (3), and a contact hole whose opening part reaches a part of the Al alloy pad (3), includes the steps of: forming a contact hole (7) in the gate insulating film (4) and the interlayer insulating film (5) by dry etching so as to expose, in the contact hole (7), at least part of an end part (20) of the Al alloy pad (3) and a part (10) of the base layer (2) which part (10) is adjacent to at least the part of the end part (20); and removing, after forming the contact hole (7), an electrically nonconductive layer (9) caused on a surface of the Al alloy pad (3) by the dry etching.

Abstract: Provided is a touch panel wherein, by a simple configuration, touch electrodes formed on a transparent insulating substrate can be prevented from being visible. A touch panel (100) includes a transparent substrate (1) having an insulating property; a touch electrode (2) formed of a transparent conductive film formed in a pattern on the substrate (1); and a floating electrode (3) formed of a transparent conductive film, the floating electrode (3) being formed in an area on the substrate (1) where the touch electrode (2) is not formed. The touch electrode (2) and the floating electrode (3) respectively have slits (8, 9) so that a plurality of microareas (2a, 3a) are formed in the same.

Abstract: In a picture-frame region (F) of a liquid crystal display panel (1), a wall member (41) is provided, which is formed adjacent to a sealing material (40) and sandwiches the sealing material (40). Steps (42a), (43a) are formed in the wall member (41) so that a width (W1) of a portion (40a) of the sealing material (40), which contacts a TFT substrate (2) is larger on a side on which the sealing material (40) contacts the TFT substrate (2).

Abstract: A recess, which extends through an interlayer insulating film and a part of a gate insulating film portion forming a dielectric layer of a storage capacitor and is covered by a pixel electrode, is formed in the interlayer insulating film and a gate insulating film. A pixel electrode portion corresponding to a bottom of the recess forms an upper electrode of the storage capacitor.

Abstract: A gate electrode is provided on a layered structure formed by successively stacking a conductive layer and an insulating layer. A storage capacitor includes a lower electrode formed in a same layer and made of a same material as the conductive layer, a dielectric layer provided on the lower electrode, formed in a same layer and made of a same material as the insulating layer, and an upper electrode formed in a same layer and made of a same material as the gate electrode to overlap the lower electrode with the dielectric layer sandwiched therebetween. A contact hole for connection to the storage capacitor is continuously formed in the interlayer and gate insulating films. The dielectric layer and the upper electrode are formed to have a lower conductive layer forming the lower electrode partially exposed from the dielectric layer, the upper electrode, and the interlayer and gate insulating films.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device that is used in display portions of electronics devices and a manufacturing method thereof, and an object is to provide a high quality liquid crystal display device where light is inhibited from leaking and a manufacturing method thereof. The projected structure formed of the first through the fourth columnar spacer receiving patterns, the insulating film and the final protective film is formed on the TFT substrate. The projected structure is buried in the columnar spacer disposed on the opposite substrate. Thereby, even when the liquid crystal display panel is surface pressed, both substrates are hardly displaced.

Abstract: There is provided an MVA type liquid crystal display device having high brightness and excellent display quality.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device realizing a high display quality is provided at high production efficiency. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a reflective region and a transmissive region, and comprises a TFT substrate including a first transparent layer and a second transparent layer formed on a TFT and a pixel electrode formed on the first transparent layer or the second transparent layer; a counter substrate; and a liquid crystal layer. A first sub pixel electrode formed in the reflective region is formed on a surface of the second transparent layer; a second sub pixel electrode formed in the transmissive region is formed on a surface of the first transparent layer; and the second transparent layer includes a first elevated portion formed to protrude toward the liquid crystal layer more than the first sub pixel electrode and to surround each of the first and second sub pixel electrode.

Abstract: There is provided an MVA type liquid crystal display device having high brightness and excellent display quality.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate for a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device having the substrate, an object of the invention is to provide such a substrate for a display device that can be obtained by a simple production method with high reliability, and a liquid crystal display device having the same. A substrate for a display device contains: an accumulated electrode having an accumulated structure containing a lower layer formed on a substrate, and a upper layer containing ZnO and formed on the lower layer; an insulating film covering the accumulated electrode; a contact hole opening in the insulating film on the accumulated electrode; and a pixel electrode formed on the insulating film and being connected directly to the upper layer of the accumulated electrode through the contact hole.

Abstract: There is provided an MVA type liquid crystal display device having high brightness and excellent display quality.

Abstract: A reflection-type or transflective-type liquid crystal display device having excellent efficiency of light utility is provided at low cost.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device 10, a plurality of structures 25 are formed in a part of a first substrate 12 located in a seal region 17? to be arranged in a direction in which the seal region 17? extends, and at least one eave portion 26 is formed on the structures 25 to protrude in a direction along a surface of an insulating base material and provide voids 27 under the at least one eave portion 26. A sealant 17 is provided on the at least one eave portion 26 to adhere to the at least one eave portion 26 and is filled in the voids 27 to adhere to the structures 25.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.

Abstract: The invention relates to a thin film transistor substrate for use in a liquid crystal display device and a method of fabricating the same, and an object is to provide a thin film transistor substrate which can ensure high reliability even though a low resistance metal is used in a material for a gate electrode and a predetermined wiring and a method of fabricating the same. A TFT substrate has a gate electrode in a multilayer structure configured of an AlN film as a nitrogen containing layer, an Al film as a main wiring layer and an upper wiring layer formed of an MoN film and an Mo film. On the gate electrode whose side surface inclines gently, a gate insulating film of excellent film quality is formed.

Abstract: A layer stack including an operating semiconductor layer and a low resistance semiconductor layer is patterned by using a first mask pattern so as to have an insular shape and then a circumferential sidewall of the layer stack whose top surface is covered by the first mask pattern is oxidized under a condition that at least ends of the first mask pattern which ends contacts the low resistance semiconductor layer are not positioned behind ends of the layer stack which ends contacts the first mask pattern, thereby forming a sidewall oxidized film only on the circumferential sidewall of the layer stack. After the first mask pattern is removed, an electrode/wiring layer is formed on the layer stack by using a second mask pattern, the electrode/wiring layer being electrically connected with the low resistance semiconductor layer and having the same shape as the low resistance semiconductor layer at a region where the insular operating semiconductor layer is formed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.

Abstract: Fine electrode patterns pattern-formed in the shape of fine teeth of a comb bilaterally symmetrical with respect to band-shaped portions are formed at even intervals in a pixel electrode, and band-shaped dielectric layers are pattern-formed at even intervals to cover the fine electrode patterns in a display pixel. By the existence of the dielectric layer and the fine electrode patterns complementing this, a portion formed with this layer and the fine electrode patterns is a high threshold voltage region, and relatively, a low threshold voltage region where the dielectric layer does not exist is formed. By the aforementioned construction, it becomes possible to improve a delay in response speed at low gray levels and increase the speed of halftone response, whereby a very reliable image display having moving image performance almost equal to that of a CRT is realized.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display substrate with multiple pixel areas each having in at least a portion thereof a reflection area and a wrinkled resin layer formed with a positive light-sensitive resin in the reflection area. The wrinkled resin layer has in at least a portion thereof a wrinkled surface and a reflection electrode. The wrinkled resin layer also includes a light shielding portion, formed as an underlayer, for shielding light incident from the substrate's back surface side, wherein at least part of the light shielding portion is formed in a same layer with the same material as a drain electrode and a source electrode of a thin film transistor and a storage capacitor electrode, to shield a large proportion of an under area of the wrinkled resin layer from light along with the drain electrode, the source electrode and the storage capacitor electrode.