Abstract: A method of forming an alignment layer includes; providing a substrate having a base substrate and a photosensitive polymer layer disposed on the base substrate, the base substrate including a plurality of unit pixel areas, each of which is divided into a plurality of sub-pixel areas, photoaligning the photosensitive polymer layer by irradiating first light to a first exposure area of a first unit pixel area, the first light being inclined at a first angle with respect to the substrate in a first direction, and substantially simultaneously photoaligning the photosensitive polymer layer by irradiating second light to a second exposure area of a second unit pixel area at substantially the same time as the first light is irradiated to the first exposure area, the second light being inclined at a second angle with respect to the substrate in a second direction.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of a display substrate include a base substrate and a pixel electrode. The base substrate has a pixel area defined thereon. The pixel electrode includes a low pixel electrode formed in the pixel area to receive a first voltage, a high pixel electrode spaced apart from the low pixel electrode along a first direction to receive a second voltage that is higher than the first voltage, and a liquid crystal molecule control part formed on at least one of the low and high pixel electrodes so as to control liquid crystal molecules disposed at an area corresponding to a boundary of the low and high pixel electrodes. The liquid crystal molecules disposed at a domain corresponding to a boundary between the low and high pixel electrodes may be controlled, so that the generation of stains or afterimages may be prevented at a boundary of domain areas.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate, a first electric field generating electrode which is located on the first substrate and which has a plurality of cut portions, a direction control electrode located on the first substrate and overlapping at least one of the cut portions, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a second electric field generating electrode located on the second substrate and opposite to the first electric field generating electrode. The liquid crystal display further includes a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first electric field generating electrode and the second electric field generating electrode, and a slope member located on one of the first and second substrate and having a ridge and a slope. The ridge corresponds to the direction control electrode.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an active matrix substrate is presented. The method includes forming a transistor having a gate line, a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer between the gate line and the semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; forming a pixel electrode comprising a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode; forming an auxiliary coupling electrode connected to the second sub-pixel electrode through a first contact hole; and forming the first sub-pixel electrode through a second contact hole connected to the drain electrode of the transistor. The auxiliary coupling electrode and the first sub-pixel electrode overlap each other such that the second sub-pixel electrode is capacitively coupled to the first sub-pixel electrode and the auxiliary coupling electrode and the electrode part form a 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 liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a substrate; a color filter formed on the substrate, and having a depression and an opening; a common electrode formed on the color filter, and having a depression; and a black member formed on the common electrode and located at the depressions of the common electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a first substrate; a first signal line disposed on the first substrate; a second signal line disposed on the first substrate and intersecting the first signal line; a thin film transistor coupled with the first and the second signal lines; a pixel electrode coupled with the thin film transistor; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode arranged on the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first tilt direction determining member arranged on the first substrate; and a second tilt direction determining member arranged on the first substrate, wherein the first tilt direction determining member is about 15 microns to about 20 microns apart from the second tilt direction determining member.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a substrate; a color filter formed on the substrate, and having a depression and an opening; a common electrode formed on the color filter, and having a depression; and a black member formed on the common electrode and located at the depressions of the common electrode.

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: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a first insulating substrate; a gate line formed on first insulating substrate; a data line intersecting gate line; a thin film transistor connected to gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and having a plurality of slits; a second insulating substrate facing first insulating substrate; a slope member disposed on the location corresponding to the corner of pixel electrode and formed on second insulating substrate; a common electrode formed on second insulating substrate; and a liquid crystal layer formed between the common electrode and pixel electrode.

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 is provided, which includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a common electrode facing the pixel electrodes, a liquid crystal display formed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, and a plurality of slope members formed on the common electrode and having a ridge and an inclined surface. The slope members include a plurality of pixel slope members facing the pixel electrodes and a plurality of connection slope members for connecting neighboring pixel slope members.

Abstract: A color filter substrate includes an insulating substrate; a color filter layer disposed on the insulating substrate and provided with a first region and a second region higher than the first region; an organic layer mountain structure pattern that is disposed in the first region and formed to protrude upward; and a column spacer that is formed simultaneously with the organic layer mountain structure pattern to be disposed in the second region. The color filter substrate is capable of obtaining an improved shape of the organic layer mountain structure pattern even when both the organic layer mountain structure pattern and the column spacer are formed simultaneously.

Abstract: A thin film panel that includes a first substrate, a first slope member formed on the first substrate, a first alignment layer formed on the first substrate and the first slope member, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and a second alignment layer formed on the second substrate. A rubbing direction of the first alignment layer is perpendicular to a rubbing direction of the second alignment layer.

Abstract: An LCD includes first and second insulating substrates with liquid crystal disposed therebetween, first and second gate lines, a data line crossed and insulated with the gate lines, thereby defining a pixel area, a pixel electrode formed in the pixel area and having a pixel electrode cutting pattern, a direction control electrode line electrically separated from the pixel electrode, at least partly overlapped with the pixel electrode cutting pattern and controlling the liquid crystal layer, a TFT for the pixel electrode formed in an area where the first gate line and the data line are crossed and connected to the pixel electrode, and a TFT for a direction control electrode formed in an area where the second gate line and the data line are crossed and connected to the direction control electrode line. Accordingly, an LCD realizes a wide angular field and improves a response time of a liquid crystal.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes a gate line formed on a first insulating substrate, a data line intersecting the gate line and insulated from the gate line, a pixel electrode provided in a pixel area defined by the intersection of the gate line and the data line, a second insulating substrate facing the first insulating substrate, a common electrode formed on the second insulating substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, a first cutout in the pixel electrode, and a second cutout provided in the common electrode and partitioning the pixel area into a plurality of domains along with the first cutout. The plurality of domains in the pixel area are classified into at least two types based on the presence of an organic insulating layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including: a panel; a first electric field generating electrode formed on the panel; a second electric field generating electrode opposed to the first electric field generating electrode; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electric field generating electrode and the second electric field generating electrode; a slope member formed on the panel and including a ridge and a slope; and a plurality of hollows formed in a cut portion of the second electric field generating electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate, a first electric field generating electrode which is located on the first substrate and which has a plurality of cut portions, a direction control electrode located on the first substrate and overlapping at least one of the cut portions, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a second electric field generating electrode located on the second substrate and opposite to the first electric field generating electrode. The liquid crystal display further includes a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first electric field generating electrode and the second electric field generating electrode, and a slope member located on one of the first and second substrate and having a ridge and a slope. The ridge corresponds to the direction control electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a panel; an electric field generating electrode formed on the panel; and a sloped member formed on the panel. The sloped member has a ridge and a slope, wherein at least one singular portion is formed in the ridge.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a plurality of storage electrodes, a plurality of storage electrode lines connected to the storage electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the switching elements and overlapping the storage electrodes, a gate driver generating gate signals having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage to apply to the gate lines, a data driver generating data voltages corresponding to externally applied image signals to apply to the data lines, and a storage electrode driver generating storage electrode signals having a reference voltage, a high voltage larger than the reference voltage, and a low voltage smaller than the reference voltage to apply to the storage electrode lines.