Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first gate line transmitting a first gate signal, a first data line transmitting a first data voltage, and a first pixel connected to the first gate line and the first data line and including a first subpixel and a second subpixel. The first subpixel includes a first switching element connected to the first gate line, a first liquid crystal capacitor connected to the first switching element, and a first storage capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal. The second subpixel includes a second switching element connected to the first gate line and the first data line, a second liquid crystal capacitor connected to the second switching element, and a second storage capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal and having a capacitance different from a capacitance of the first storage capacitor.

Abstract: In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, a LCD panel includes an active matrix substrate, a patterned substrate disposed opposite to the active matrix substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the active matrix substrate and the patterned substrate. The active matrix substrate includes a transistor, a pixel electrode having a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode, a first electrode connected to the second sub-pixel electrode, and a second electrode connected to the source electrode of the transistor and the first sub-pixel electrode. The second electrode is coupled to the first electrode so as to form a capacitor. The active matrix substrate can include a protective insulating layer between the second electrode and the pixel electrode, and the protective insulating layer can include a color filter layer. The semiconductor layer of the transistor can extends such that a portion of the semiconductor layer has the same boundary as the second electrode.

Abstract: A display device which includes a substrate, a gate line formed on the substrate, a data line intersecting the gate line, and a thin film transistor having a gate electrode connected to the gate line, a source electrode which overlaps the gate electrode and is connected to the data line, and a drain electrode which overlaps the gate electrode. The overlapping area between the gate electrode and the drain electrode is larger than the overlapping area between the gate electrode and the source electrode.

Abstract: A thin film transistor panel is provided. The thin film transistor panel includes: a substrate; gate lines formed on the substrate; data lines insulated from the gate lines and intersecting the gate lines; thin film transistors which are connected to the gate lines and the data lines and have drain electrodes; capacitive coupling electrodes connected to the drain electrodes; and pixel electrodes which are formed in the pixels surrounded by the gate lines and the data lines and include first pixel electrodes connected to the drain electrodes and second pixel electrodes which are separated from the first pixel electrodes and overlap with the capacitive coupling electrodes, wherein the first and second pixel electrodes of different pixel electrodes have a left-right symmetrical structure.

Abstract: A display substrate includes first and second storage electrodes, a pixel electrode and a direction control electrode. A slit is formed through the pixel electrode. The direction control electrode is positioned in a region aligned with the slit, and a level of a voltage applied to the direction control electrode is changed. The level of the voltage applied to the direction control electrode may be periodically changed. The voltage applied to the direction control electrode may be changed after substantially the same voltage is applied to the pixel electrode and the direction control electrode. A voltage difference between a reference voltage and the direction control voltage may be greater than a voltage difference between the reference voltage and the pixel voltage. The reference voltage may be a common voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second thin film transistors, a pixel electrode including a first cutout and an inclination direction determining member and connected to the first thin film transistor, a direction controlling electrode connected to the second thin film transistor, a first storage electrode overlapping with the pixel electrode and the direction controlling electrode and applied with a first storage electrode signal having a first voltage, and second storage electrode overlapping with the direction controlling electrode to receive a second storage electrode signal having a second voltage that periodically changes.

Abstract: A thin film transistor panel is provided. The thin film transistor panel includes: a substrate; gate lines formed on the substrate; data lines insulated from the gate lines and intersecting the gate lines; thin film transistors which are connected to the gate lines and the data lines and have drain electrodes; capacitive coupling electrodes connected to the drain electrodes; and pixel electrodes which are formed in the pixels surrounded by the gate lines and the data lines and include first pixel electrodes connected to the drain electrodes and second pixel electrodes which are separated from the first pixel electrodes and overlap with the capacitive coupling electrodes, wherein the first and second pixel electrodes of different pixel electrodes have a left-right symmetrical structure.

Abstract: A mask includes a transparent substrate, a light-blocking layer and a halftone layer. The light-blocking layer includes a source electrode pattern portion including a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion and a third electrode portion, and a drain electrode pattern portion disposed between the second electrode portion and the third electrode portion. The halftone layer includes a halftone portion corresponding to a spaced-apart portion between the source electrode pattern portion and the drain electrode pattern portion, and a dummy halftone portion more protrusive than ends of the second electrode portion and the third electrode portion. Thus, a photoresist pattern corresponding to a channel portion of a thin film transistor (TFT) may be formed with a uniform thickness, to thereby prevent an excessive etching of the channel portion.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a gate line, a gate insulating layer, a data line, a thin-film transistor (TFT), a storage line, a passivation layer, a color filter layer, a pixel electrode, a first light-blocking layer and a second light-blocking layer. The storage line includes the same material as the gate line. The passivation layer covers the data line. The color filter layer is formed on the passivation layer. The pixel electrode is formed on the color filter layer in each pixel. The first light-blocking layer is formed between adjacent pixel electrodes, and includes the same material as the gate line. The second light-blocking layer is formed between the first light-blocking layer, and includes the same material as the data line. Therefore, an aperture ratio may be increased.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (“TFT”) substrate in which the size of a pixel TFT formed in a display area is reduced using a single slit mask, and the length of the channel area of a protection TFT constituting an electrostatic discharge protection circuit formed in a non-display area is formed larger than that of the pixel TFT using the same mask pattern. The TFT substrate includes a signal line and a discharge line formed on a substrate, a signal supply pad formed on one end of the signal line to supply a signal to the signal line, and an electrostatic discharge protection circuit including at least one protection TFT including a plurality of channels formed between the signal supply pad and the discharge line and/or between the signal line and the discharge line.

Abstract: A panel assembly includes a gate wire, a data wire, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode. The gate wire includes a plurality of gate lines and the data wire includes a plurality of data lines crossing and insulated from the gate lines. The pixel electrodes are insulated from each other and disposed on the data wire. The liquid crystal layer is disposed on the pixel electrodes and includes liquid crystal molecules, and a common electrode is disposed on the liquid crystal layer. The gate lines cross a center of the pixel electrodes, and the common electrode includes a plurality of cutting patterns that overlap the gate lines.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display including a first insulation substrate, gate lines disposed on the first insulation substrate, data lines insulated from and crossing the gate lines, thin film transistors connected to the gate lines and the data lines, and pixel electrodes divided into a plurality of regions by first domain dividers and connected to the thin film transistors. The first domain dividers include a plurality of first notches and the width of each first domain dividers increases or decreases in a region between the first notches.

Abstract: A panel assembly includes gate wires, data wires, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode. The gate wires include a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of first storage electrode lines parallel to the gate lines. The data wires include a plurality of data lines crossing and insulated from the gate lines and a plurality of second storage electrode lines overlapping the first storage electrode lines and spaced apart from the data lines. The plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed on and insulated from the data wires. The liquid crystal layer is disposed on the pixel electrodes and includes liquid crystal molecules, and the common electrode is disposed on the liquid crystal layer. One of the plurality of first storage electrode lines and the plurality of second storage electrode lines has varying widths.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, the device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor connected to the pixel electrode, and also a hitch to connect both a lower and upper electrode of the pixel electrode. The second substrate includes a common electrode having a lower domain division part and an upper domain division part, in which each of domain division part is formed at the position corresponding to the lower and upper electrode of the pixel electrode, respectively. Through the electric field controller connected at both sides of the upper electrode of the pixel electrode, quality of display image can improve without a darkening area occurring at one part of the unit pixel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixel electrodes that are formed in a matrix shape and each of which includes at least two parallelogram electrode pieces each having a pair of lengthwise edges and a pair of oblique edges adjacent the lengthwise edges, and a common electrode that faces the pixel electrodes and that has tilt direction determining members. Transverse center lines of the pixel electrodes that are adjacent each other in a row direction alternate, and the tilt direction determining members that correspond to the pixel electrodes that are adjacent to each other in the row direction are connected to each other in the row direction.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display includes a thin film transistor (TFT) panel including a pixel electrode in a rectangular shape having a transverse length longer than a longitudinal length, the pixel electrode including a first domain divider and having upper and lower half portions arranged symmetrically with respect to a transverse long axis passing through a center of the pixel electrode, a common electrode panel including a common electrode facing the pixel electrode, the common electrode including a second domain divider arranged parallel with the first domain divider, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the TFT panel and the common electrode panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate and including a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode, and a common electrode facing the pixel electrode. The first subpixel electrode comprises a first edge, a second edge disposed opposite the first edge, and two first oblique edges substantially parallel to each other, the first oblique edges making an oblique angle with the first edge and the second edge and meeting the first edge. The second subpixel electrode comprises a first edge, a second edge disposed opposite the first edge, and two first oblique edges substantially parallel to or substantially perpendicular to the first oblique edges of the first subpixel electrode, the first oblique edges of the second subpixel electrode meeting the first edge of the second subpixel electrode.

Abstract: A thin film transistor panel is provided. The thin film transistor panel includes: a substrate; gate lines formed on the substrate; data lines insulated from the gate lines and intersecting the gate lines; thin film transistors which are connected to the gate lines and the data lines and have drain electrodes; capacitive coupling electrodes connected to the drain electrodes; and pixel electrodes which are formed in the pixels surrounded by the gate lines and the data lines and include first pixel electrodes connected to the drain electrodes and second pixel electrodes which are separated from the first pixel electrodes and overlap with the capacitive coupling electrodes, wherein the first and second pixel electrodes of different pixel electrodes have a left-right symmetrical structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display comprising a thin film transistor substrate formed with a gate line and a data line; first and second gray scale voltage generating parts generating a first and a second gray scale voltage, respectively; a data driving part receiving the first and second gray scale voltages, and applying a data voltage to a plurality of sub pixels formed by crossing of the gate line and the data line; and a signal controlling part controlling the data driving part to divide the plurality of sub pixels into first and second areas, and to apply the data voltage corresponding to a gray scale signal responsive to the first and second gray scale voltages to the first and second areas, respectively. Thus, the present invention provides an LCD enhancing visibility in the side view and a driving method of the same.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel according to an embodiment includes: a substrate; a plurality of gate line formed on the substrate; a plurality of first capacitor electrodes formed on the substrate and separated from the gate lines; a plurality of data line intersecting the gate lines; a plurality of thin film transistor connected to the gate lines and the data lines; a plurality of second capacitor electrodes disposed on the first electrode; a plurality of interconnections connected to the second capacitor electrodes and the thin film transistor and disposed symmetrical to the data lines; and a plurality of pixel electrode, each pixel electrode including a first subpixel electrode connected to one of the thin film transistors and a second subpixel electrode connected to one of the first capacitor electrodes.