Abstract: A method of manufacturing an array substrate for an IPS mode LCD device includes: forming a gate electrode, a gate line, a data line and a common line using a printing process; forming an active layer on the substrate including the gate electrode using a printing process; forming a source electrode, a drain electrode, a pixel electrode including a plurality of zigzag-shaped pixel electrode bars, and a common electrode including a plurality common electrode bars arranged in an alternating pattern with the pixel electrode bars using a photo process; forming at least one contact hole on the substrate including the thin film transistor using a printing process to expose a portion of the common electrode line and a portion of the common electrode; and forming a connecting metal using a printing process to electrically connect the common electrode line and the common electrode through the at least one contact hole.

Abstract: An array substrate of a liquid crystal display being capable of increasing the electrostatic capacitance of a storage capacitor without decreasing the aperture ratio of the LCD. In the array substrate, the gate line is formed a disposed material of a first and a second metal layer. The first metal layer of the gate line is extended on the pixel area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed, which provides data in a time-divided manner to left and right pixel regions of one data line, thereby reducing the number of source drive ICs, expensive component. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pairs having first and second gate lines being adjacent to each other; a plurality of data lines for being in perpendicular to the pair of the first and second gate lines, thereby defining a plurality of left and right side pixel regions; and left and right side pixel electrodes, respectively formed in the left and right side pixel regions, and selectively driven by switching parts of the first and second gate lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate having reflective and transmissive regions in a pixel region, wherein the array substrate includes a reflective electrode corresponding to the reflective region and a pixel electrode on a first substrate. A color filter substrate defines the reflective region and the transmissive region in the pixel region. The color filter substrate includes a color filter with first and second portions that correspond to the respective transmissive and reflective regions on a second substrate. The thickness of the second portion is less than a thickness of the first portion. The combined thickness of the scatter and the thickness of the second portion is greater than the thickness of the first portion; and a liquid crystal layer between the array and color filter substrates.

Abstract: A multi-domain liquid crystal display (LCD) device including first and second substrates facing each other, gate and data lines crossing each other on the first substrate to thereby form a pixel region, a pixel electrode formed in the pixel region of the first substrate, a laser-irradiated groove having a predetermined width and depth in the surface of the second substrate, a common electrode formed in the second substrate having a predetermined step coverage generated by the surface of the second substrate and the groove, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A packaging structure of a driving circuit for a liquid crystal display device comprises a base film, a plurality of first metal lines being formed on the base film and being disposed with a certain distance between neighboring first metal lines, an insulating film on the first metal lines, the insulating film exposing both ends of the first metal lines, and a plurality of second metal lines on the insulating film, the second metal lines being formed parallel to the first metal lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a fabricating method thereof that are capable of realizing a high aperture ratio as well as implementing a high-density storage capacitor. The liquid crystal display is provided with a data line supplied with a data signal, a gate line supplied with a scanning signal, a pixel electrode for driving a liquid crystal cell, and a thin film transistor for applying the data signal to the pixel electrode in response to the scanning signal. In the liquid crystal display, a gate insulating film covers the gate line. A storage electrode is formed at the interior of the gate insulating film to overlap with the gate line. Accordingly, the storage electrode is formed within the gate insulating film to reduce a thickness between the conductive materials, thereby increasing a capacitance value. As a result, the storage capacitor area is set to a small size to thereby improve an aperture ratio.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes: forming alignment keys by at least one of ink jet printing, offset printing, screen printing and laser marking on a dummy region of an upper substrate; forming a first alignment film over an active region of the upper substrate; forming sealant along a periphery of the active region of the upper substrate; and bonding the upper substrate to a lower substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of gate lines arranged along a first direction on a first substrate, a plurality of data lines arranged along a second direction on the first substrate to cross the gate lines to define a plurality of unit pixels, an insulating layer disposed over the gate and data lines, a common electrode disposed on a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, each pixel electrode provided in each of the unit pixels partitioned by the gate line and the data line, and a plurality of side electrodes overlapping the data lines, wherein the insulating layer is provided between the side electrode and the data lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate on which unit pixels are arranged, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal layer having liquid crystals arranged in a first direction, a first polarization plate formed at an outer side of the first substrate, the first polarization plate having a polarization axis parallel to the first direction, and a second polarization plate formed at an outer side of the second substrate, the second polarization plate including a polarization film having a polarization axis at a right angle to the first direction and a uni-axial film having a polarization axis at a right angle to the first direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a unit pixel defined by a gate line formed on a substrate and a data line crossing the gate line, a switching device formed in the unit pixel, a common electrode line formed parallel to the gate line, the common electrode line including a first transparent electrode layer and a first conductive layer, a common electrode having a conductive portion and a light transmitting portion formed within the unit pixel and connected to the common electrode line, the conductive portion formed along a periphery of the common electrode including a second transparent electrode layer and a second conductive layer, and the light transmitting portion including a third transparent electrode layer disposed in a middle portion of the common electrode includes a third transparent electrode layer, and a pixel electrode having a slit region arranged to face the common electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) devise includes a white sub-pixel that has a smaller size than other sub-pixels thereby increasing the brightness and the color purities of the other colors, which improves image quality. An LCD device has the common and pixel electrodes on the same substrate and may be formed of a transparent conductive material to increase the brightness further.

Abstract: An array substrate of a liquid crystal display includes a gate line, a data line crossing the gate line, a thin film transistor including a gate electrode connected to the gate line, a semiconductor layer having first and second sides, a source electrode contacting the first side of the semiconductor layer and connected to the data line, and a drain electrode contacting the second side of the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film provided between the gate line and the data line, an organic protective film formed on the gate insulating film, a capacitor common line provided on the organic protective film to overlap the gate line, an upper insulating layer provided on the organic protective film, and a pixel electrode provided on the upper insulating layer partially overlapping the capacitor common line and the data line, the pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode via a contact hole through the upper insulating layer and the organic protective film.

Abstract: An advantage of the present invention is to provide a method of manufacturing an array substrate for a liquid crystal display device in which a mask that has double slits in it is used in the photolithographic masking process for the pixel electrode to reduce the distance between a pixel electrode and a neighboring pixel electrode and thus reduce the width of a data line, which results in an improvement of the aperture ratio.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate; a second substrate cohered to the first substrate with a separation from the first substrate; a first orientation film formed on an inner surface of the first substrate; a second orientation film formed on an inner surface of the second substrate; and a liquid crystal injected between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first orientation film and the second orientation film are formed to face each other, and the thickness of the first orientation film or the second orientation film is formed differently in different portions.

Abstract: A integrated circuit driving unit for a LCD device includes a base film having first and second regions; first and second input lines on the base film; first and second output lines on the base film; first and second input pads at a boundary of the base film connected to one end of each of the first and second input lines, respectively; first and second output pads at a boundary of the base film connected to one end of each of the first and second output lines; first and second input terminals in the first and second regions of the base film connected to the other end of each of the first and second input lines, respectively; and first and second output terminals in the first and second regions of the base film connected to the other end of each of the first and second output lines, respectively.

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: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device having multi domains comprises a plurality of pixels defined by a plurality of gate and data lines on a first substrate each pixel including a first region and a second region, a switching member in each pixel, and at least one pair of electrodes disposed substantially parallel in each respective pixel to form a parallel electric field, the electrodes being bent and symmetric to each other in at least one region of the first and second regions.

Abstract: A packaging structure of a driving circuit for a liquid crystal display device comprises a base film, a plurality of first metal lines being formed on the base film and being disposed with a certain distance between neighboring first metal lines, an insulating film on the first metal lines, the insulating film exposing both ends of the first metal lines, and a plurality of second metal lines on the insulating film, the second metal lines being formed parallel to the first metal lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of metal lines, a first insulation material layer formed on the metal lines, a second insulation material layer formed on the first insulation material layer on the metal lines, a first hole formed in the second insulation material layer over at least two of the metal lines, a second contact hole formed in the first and second insulation layers exposing a drain electrode of the thin film transistors, a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode through the second contact hole, a sealing material formed within the first hole, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate via the sealing material, and a liquid crystal material disposed between the first and second substrates.