Abstract: A TFT substrate including a base substrate that includes a plurality of pixel areas; a gate line on the base substrate and extending in a first direction; a data line on the gate line and extending in a second direction; a TFT connected to the gate line and the data line, the TFT including a gate electrode, a semiconductor pattern, and source and drain electrodes, the semiconductor pattern overlapping the gate electrode, the source electrode and the drain electrode overlapping the semiconductor pattern, and the drain electrode being spaced apart from the source electrode; an inorganic insulating pattern covering the data line, the inorganic insulating pattern including an opening aligned with the pixel areas; a shielding electrode overlapping the data line, the shielding electrode on the inorganic insulating pattern; and a pixel electrode on the pixel areas, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to the drain electrode through a first contact hole.

Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes first and second barrier layers which cover first and second electrodes. The electrowetting display device includes a first base substrate which faces a second base substrate, the first electrode on the first base substrate, the first barrier layer which covers the first electrode, the second electrode on the second base substrate, the second barrier layer which covers the second electrode, a barrier wall between the first base substrate and the second base substrate, and an electrowetting layer between the first base substrate and the second base substrate. The barrier wall defines a pixel area corresponding to the first electrode, and the electrowetting layer is in the pixel area. The electrowetting layer includes a polar fluid and a non-polar fluid which are separated from each other.

Abstract: A display substrate including a base substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of sub pixel electrodes. The pixel electrodes are formed on the base substrate, are spaced apart from each other, and are electrically connected with a plurality of transistors, respectively. The sub pixel electrodes are disposed between the pixel electrodes, and are electrically connected with a thin-film transistor (TFT). Thus, quality of an image displayed by the display apparatus may be enhanced.

Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of pixels disposed on a first substrate, wherein each pixel is connected to a corresponding signal line. Each pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode configured to form an electric field with the first electrode, a first dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a second dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first dielectric layer includes a ferroelectric material and the second dielectric layer includes a paraelectric material.

Abstract: The inventive concept relates to a display device in which luminance of a light source is corrected, and the display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the inventive concept includes: a display panel displaying an image; a light source unit supplying light to the display panel; a light sensing unit embeded in the display panel and sensing a light intensity from the light source unit; and a light source controller receiving information regarding the light intensity from the light sensing unit to control a light intensity from the light source unit, wherein the light sensing unit includes a light sensing layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode formed on either side of the light sensing layer in a plan view.

Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the first substrate; a third electrode and a fourth electrode disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer injected between the first substrate and the second substrate and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, where the second electrode extends substantially in a first direction, the third electrode extends substantially in a second direction, and the first direction and the second direction are perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes: a first type pixel including first liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately in a first direction; a second type pixel including second liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately in a second direction different from the first direction; a first lower polarizer disposed opposite to the first type pixel and having a transmissive axis approximately parallel to the first direction; and a second lower polarizer disposed opposite to the second type pixel and having a transmissive axis approximately parallel to the second direction.

Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes applying a common voltage and a bias voltage to two of a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode of the display panel to form a vertical field during a period during which the display panel displays an image, and applying a data voltage based on a grayscale of the image to one of the first and second electrodes to form an in-plane field during the period during which the display panel displays the image, where the display panel includes a first substrate including the first electrode, the second electrode which overlaps the first electrode and a transistor connected to one of the first and second electrodes, and a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate and including the third electrode.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel includes a first insulation substrate, a gate line and a data line which are positioned on the first insulation substrate, are insulated from each other, and cross each other, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, an organic film positioned on the thin film transistor, a second passivation layer which is positioned on the organic film and defines a plurality of second openings therein, a common electrode positioned on the second passivation layer, and a pixel electrode positioned in the plurality of second openings, where a thickness of the common electrode is larger than a thickness of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of pixels disposed on a first substrate, wherein each pixel is connected to a corresponding signal line. Each pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode configured to form an electric field with the first electrode, a first dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a second dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first dielectric layer includes a ferroelectric material and the second dielectric layer includes a paraelectric material.

Abstract: A display substrate is provided. The display substrate includes a switching element disposed on a base substrate, wherein the switching element comprises a gate electrode, an active pattern, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The display substrate also includes a first electrode disposed on a same layer as the gate electrode, wherein the first electrode includes a wire grid pattern; and a second electrode overlapping the first electrode.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: a first substrate, a first electrode formed on the first substrate, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a plurality of charged particles arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, pairs of the charged particles having different polarities. Each charged particle has at least two threshold voltages, where the threshold voltages are voltage magnitudes below which a voltage applied across the first and second electrodes does not move the associated charged particle. The pixels may represent any one of colors such as red, green, blue, white, and black by including two charged particles of different colors in one pixel and changing the attractive and repulsive force threshold voltages of each of two charged particles of different colors contained in the pixel.

Abstract: In an electrophoretic display apparatus, a first substrate includes a plurality of pixels each including at least two sub-pixels which display colors different from each other, and a second substrate which faces the first substrate and includes a reference electrode corresponding to a boundary between adjacent sub-pixels in each pixel. An electrophoretic material is between the first substrate and the second substrate. A barrier wall is between the first substrate and the second substrate, and defines the pixels.

Abstract: Disclosed is a crystallization apparatus capable of locally crystallizing amorphous silicon. The crystallization apparatus includes a heat emission part, a support part and a roller. The heat emission part emits heat upon receiving a heat emission source. The support part supports the heat emission part and provides the heat emission source to the heat emission part. The roller receives the heat emission part and has at least one opening to provide heat to a target (e.g., amorphous silicon). Local crystallization is performed without causing damage to a substrate.

Abstract: An electro-wetting display device includes a polar fluid layer, a pixel electrode, a non-polar black fluid layer, a driving electrode, and a color fluid layer. The non-polar black fluid is deformed by a voltage difference between a voltage applied to the pixel electrode and a voltage applied to the polar fluid layer. the non-polar color fluid is deformed by a voltage difference between a voltage applied to the driving electrode and a voltage applied to the polar fluid layer. The driving electrode receives a voltage having a voltage level varied according to a display mode.

Abstract: A flat panel display includes; a first substrate, a white reflective layer disposed on the first substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the white reflective, a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, and an electrooptic layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein the white reflective layer includes at least one of TiO2 and BaSO4.

Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a thin film transistor. The first substrate includes a fiber reinforced plastic substrate and a color filter layer formed on the fiber reinforced plastic substrate. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The thin film transistor is formed on the first substrate.

Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes a first base substrate, a second base substrate facing the first base substrate, an electrowetting layer that includes a first fluid and an electrically conducting second fluid that are immiscible with each other, black partition walls disposed on the first base substrate to partition a display area into pixel areas, and an electronic device that applies a voltage to the electrowetting layer to control the electrowetting layer. The partition walls restrict a flow of at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid.

Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes first and second barrier layers which cover first and second electrodes. The electrowetting display device includes a first base substrate which faces a second base substrate, the first electrode on the first base substrate, the first barrier layer which covers the first electrode, the second electrode on the second base substrate, the second barrier layer which covers the second electrode, a barrier wall between the first base substrate and the second base substrate, and an electrowetting layer between the first base substrate and the second base substrate. The barrier wall defines a pixel area corresponding to the first electrode, and the electrowetting layer is in the pixel area. The electrowetting layer includes a polar fluid and a non-polar fluid which are separated from each other.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a lower substrate; an upper substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the lower substrate; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; an electronic ink layer positioned between the lower substrate and the upper substrate; a plurality of partitions disposed on the upper substrate; a reflecting layer disposed on the partitions; a color filter disposed between the partitions.