Abstract: A first conductive layer in which a first electrode film is formed, a first protective layer on the first conductive layer, a first hole penetrating through the first protective layer to reach the first electrode film, a second conductive layer including a second electrode film which is disposed on the first protective layer and in contact with a portion of the first electrode film at the bottom of the first hole and the lower electrode, a second protective layer disposed on the second conductive layer and including the insulating film, a second hole disposed on the second protective layer and penetrating through the second protective layer to reach the second electrode film, and a third conductive layer including a third electrode film which is in contact with a portion of the second electrode film at the bottom of the second hole and the upper electrode.

Abstract: An in plane switching liquid crystal display (IPS LCD) (100) has two substrates (110, 120) opposite to each other and spaced apart a predetermined distance; a liquid crystal layer (130) between the two substrates, and having a plurality of liquid crystal molecules; and an electrode array (111) formed on one of the substrate. Only one alignment layer (112) is provided, adjacent to the liquid crystal layer, which is formed on the substrate having the electrode array.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vacuum suction control mechanism apparatus capable of accurately bonding a film to a bonding object with a simple structure. A vacuum suction control mechanism apparatus according to the present invention includes a bonding head including a space defined therein, a plurality of suction holes attracting a film, the plurality of suction holes extending from a surface of the bonding head to the space defined in the bonding head, a movable piece partitioning the space into two regions, the movable piece being movable relative to the bonding head within the space in contact with the suction holes, and a connection portion connectable to a decompression source, the connection portion being provided in a first region of the two regions.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) having one or more index-matching layers is provided. In one embodiment, an index-matching passivation layer is provided between two additional layers of the LCD. The index-matching passivation layer may include a refractive index greater than a first layer of the two additional layers and less than a second layer of the two additional layers. Various additional devices and methods are also provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel for displaying images, a light guide plate adjacent the liquid crystal display panel for providing light supplied to an edge of the light guide plate to the liquid crystal display panel, and a bottom chassis having at least one slit thereon. A flexible printed circuit board on the light guide plate includes at least one housing within the at least one slit, the at least one housing supporting a light emitting diode for supplying light to the light guide plate. A thickness of a lower end of the housing on a first side of the light emitting diode varies from a thickness of an upper end of the housing on a second opposite side of the light emitting diode.

Abstract: A dual panel type organic electroluminescent display device includes first and second substrates and a plurality of pixel regions and a plurality of power supply terminals at upper and lower sides of the plurality of pixel regions thereon, and further includes a plurality of dummy pixel regions each having substantially the same structure as each pixel region in the plurality of power supply terminals.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device combined with an optical system with a wire grid is provided for light modulation by a liquid crystal layer. This layer, made of nematic liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy, is formed such that first and second orientation directions on first and second substrates are rotated by “60±?” and “60±?” degrees in first and second rotating directions starting from a reference direction, respectively. The first and second rotating directions are mutually opposite, the reference direction is parallel to the first and second substrates and within in an angular range defined by a central angle plus ±5 degrees wherein the central angle is ±45 degrees from an oscillation direction of incident polarized light, and a relationship of |?|+|?|?10 (? and ? are zero or positive integers) is fulfilled.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a first field-generating electrode and a second field-generating electrode formed on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrates, a homeotropic alignment layer formed on the first field-generating electrode and the second field-generating electrode and a liquid crystal material formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal display panel further includes a polymer fixing a pre-tilt angle of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal material, wherein the polymer is formed by polymerizing at least one selected from monomers represented by Chemical Formulas (I), (II), (III), and (IV). wherein, each of R1 and R2 includes at least one of acrylate, a vinyl group, and an epoxy group, n is 0 to 2, each of X1 to X4 is hydrogen or fluorine, Y is at least one selected from —CH2—, —O—, —CO—, —C(CF3)2—, and a single bond.

Abstract: A novel polarizing plate is disclosed. The polarizing plate comprises at least a polarizing film, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and an optical compensation sheet, having an absolute value of Y, defined by the following equation, equal to or smaller than 6.0×10?4: Y=?7.0×105×Cn+4.3×10?13×E?1.34×10?3 where Cn (1/Pa) is photoelastic modulus of said pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and E (Pa) is modulus of elasticity of said optical compensation sheet.

Abstract: A color filter and a method of manufacturing a color filter is provided, wherein fluctuation of chromaticity of a color pattern for every opening can be controlled and the color filter has little color shading. One embodiment of the present invention is a substrate having a pattern comprising a transparent substrate and a grid partition wall pattern formed on the transparent substrate, wherein there are openings partitioned by the grid partition wall pattern, and wherein there is a pass through the grid partition wall pattern between at least two adjacent openings.

Abstract: A liquid crystal module includes a liquid crystal panel, a lamp unit, a light guide plate, a rear frame and a light reflecting sheet. The lamp unit is configured to emit light. The light guide plate is configured to guide the light emitted by the lamp unit, and has a peripheral face. The rear frame is disposed rearward of the light guide plate, and has a facing portion facing a part of the peripheral face of the light guide plate. The light reflecting sheet is disposed between the light guide plate and the rear frame, and has a tab portion that is sandwiched between the part of the peripheral face of the light guide plate and the facing portion of the rear frame.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal film with improved adhesivity to a tacky adhesive or an adhesive, formed from a liquid crystalline composition comprising a specific (meth)acrylic compound having an oxetane group and a liquid crystalline compound having an oxetane group.

Abstract: To take measures against defects in the conduction by preventing shavings of the orientation film from getting into the terminal portion for liquid crystal display devices using an organic passivation film on a TFT substrate. Image signal lines 107 extend to a terminal portion. The image signal lines 107, excluding the terminal portion, are covered with an inorganic passivation film 108 and an organic passivation film 109. In the terminal portion, terminal portion through holes are created in the organic passivation film 109 and the inorganic passivation film 108, in order to make electrical connection possible. The terminal portion is covered with an ITO film 120 in order to protect the video signal lines 107.

Abstract: The display unit (2) equips a portable instrument, such as a wristwatch (1) with hands (13, 14, 15) for indicating the time. The unit comprises at least one display cell (4) which comprises a transparent front substrate (41) having first transparent electrodes (45) on an interior face, a transparent rear substrate (42) having at least one transparent second electrode (46) on an interior face and a fixing frame (43) for the two substrates in order to define a closed space between the substrates. A substance (44), the optical or physical properties of which can be modified between the electrodes which are activated by a difference of potentials applied via control means, occupies the closed space between the first and second electrodes. Via the action of the control means, the display cell (4) makes it possible to display information, for example temporal information.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a display unit that has a plurality of switching elements provided at intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines and that drives the plurality of switching elements based on image signals supplied to the plurality of data lines so as to display images, a driving unit that controls driving of the display unit through a phase expansion so as to drive the plurality of switching elements for predetermined blocks, m×n signal wiring lines that transmit image signals, the image signals being divided into m (where m is a natural number of 2 or more) parallel data sequences and each of the data sequences including n (where n is a natural number of m or less) image signals, and that have extended portions such that the m×n signal wiring lines are grouped into a plurality of groups of signal wiring lines, each of the groups including n signal wiring lines for each data sequence on a substrate, and such that the plurality of groups of signal wiring line

Abstract: The present invention intends to realize a narrow frame of a system on panel. In addition to this, a system mounted on a panel is intended to make higher and more versatile in the functionality. In the invention, on a panel on which a pixel portion (including a liquid crystal element, a light-emitting element) and a driving circuit are formed, integrated circuits that have so far constituted an external circuit are laminated and formed. Specifically, of the pixel portion and the driving circuit on the panel, on a position that overlaps with the driving circuit, any one kind or a plurality of kinds of the integrated circuits is formed by laminating according to a transcription technique.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal and at least three anthraquinone dyes, at least two of the anthraquinone dyes having a substituent represented by the following Formula (I): wherein in Formula (I), * represents a linking position; R25 and R26 each independently represent an alkyl group, a halogen atom or an alkoxy group; R27 represents an alkyl group, an acyl group or an alkoxy group; R28 and R29 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substitutent; T1 represents an arylene group or a heteroarylene group; Z represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a carbonyl group; m represents an integer of 0 to 2; and i represents 0 or 1, wherein when i is 1 and Z is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R27 is not an alkoxy group, and when i is 1 and Z is a carbonyl group, R27 is not an acyl group.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions.

Abstract: A photoalignment compound is represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein “x” represents an integer in a range of 1 to 4, each of R1 and R2 represents —(CH2)n—, “n” represents an integer in a range of 1 to 6, at least one of the (—CH2—)s in R1 is replaceable with R3 represents —(CH2)mCH3, “m” represents an integer in a range of 1 to 12, each hydrogen atom of R3 is replaceable with F or Cl, R4 represents an amino group, aniline group, carboxy group, hydroxyl group, cyano group, alkylene group, or functional groups being represented by the following Chemical Formulas 2, 3, 4, or 5, each hydrogen atom of Chemical Formula 1 is replaceable with —O(CH2)kCH3, —(CH2)kCH3, F, or Cl, and “k” represents an integer in a range of 1 to 3, or 0.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and microcapsules sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, the microcapsules constituting a display area, the microcapsules encapsulating a display material whose optical properties change in response to electrical stimulation. A conductive material for conducting between the substrates is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate to constitute a vertically conducting portion. The thickness of the conductive material is set such that the distance between the first substrate and the second substrate at the vertically conducting portion is larger than the distance between the first substrate and the second substrate in the display area.

Abstract: A liquid crystal medium is described, having a wide temperature range of a liquid crystal phase, a large optical anisotropy and a large dielectric anisotropy, and exhibiting an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase. The liquid crystal medium features including a chiral dopant and a liquid crystal compound with chloronaphthalene ring and exhibiting an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase.

Abstract: The liquid crystal composition of the present invention contains a compound represented by the following Formula (1) and a liquid crystal. In Formula (1), at least one among R1 to R7 is a liquid crystalline substituent, and those among R1 to R7 that are not a liquid crystalline substituent each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. X and Y each independently represent an alkyl group, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, or an alkylthio group. Z represents an alkyl group having 3 or more carbon atoms, an acyl group, or an aryl group. A represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a nitrogen atom. n represents 0 or 1. The liquid crystal device, reflection display material, and light modulating material of the invention contain the liquid crystal composition.

Abstract: A liquid crystal medium is described, which has a wide temperature range of a liquid crystal phase, a large optical anisotropy and a large dielectric anisotropy and exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase. The liquid crystal medium is characterized in including a chiral dopant and a liquid crystal compound with a chlorophenyl ring and exhibiting an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase.

Abstract: Electronic equipment of the present invention having a display panel includes a protection plate that is opposed to an opposite surface of a display surface of the display panel and is substantially parallel to the opposite surface of the display surface of the display panel. According to this configuration, when a pressure is applied to the display panel from outside, the display panel can be suppressed from being deformed, whereby the strength of the display panel with respective to an external pressure can be enhanced.

Abstract: In a backlight apparatus, laminated optical sheets are housed in a tray such that a wall portion thereof surrounds their circumferences so that the optical sheets receive light from fluorescent lights. Tips of one corner portion A of optical sheets preferably have a shape in which the tips are trimmed by line segments extending between two edges defining the corner portions. At the wall portion of the tray, an opposing surface is formed along the line segments of the corner portions so as to correspond to the shape of the corner portions having tips trimmed off. The opposing surface restrains the line segments.

Abstract: Provided is an all-in-one type light guide plate including a plurality of prism-shaped structures that are integrally formed on the all-in-one light guide plate and which totally internally reflect light incident from a light source and emit the totally internally reflected light.

Abstract: A compound represented by formula (1): wherein R1 is hydrogen or alkyl having 1 to 20 carbons, in which in the alkyl, arbitrary —CH2— may be replaced by —O—, —S—, —COO—, —CH?CH— or —C?C—, and arbitrary hydrogen may be replaced by halogen or alkyl having 1 to 3 carbons; ring A1, ring A2, ring A3, ring A4 and ring A5 are each independently a benzene ring, a piperidine ring, a tetrahydropyrane ring or a dioxane ring, in which in the rings, arbitrary hydrogen may be replaced by halogen, alkyl having 1 to 3 carbons, alkoxy having 1 to 3 carbons or halogenated alkyl having 1 to 3 carbons, and —CH? may be replaced by —N?; Z1, Z2, Z4, Z5 and Z6 are each independently a single bond, —COO— or —CF2O—; Z3 is a single bond or —CF2O—, and in the case where Z3 is a single bond, ring A3 is a ring represented by formula (RG-5), or L1 and L2 are both fluorine, or at least one of Z1, Z2, Z4, Z5 and Z6 is —CF2O—; L1, L2, L3 and L4 are each independently hydrogen or halogen; X1 is hydrogen, halogen, —C?N, —N?C?S, —C?C—C?N, —S

Abstract: An exemplary double-sided liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes a first liquid crystal panel (212), a first optical film assembly (211), a light guide plate (230), a second optical film assembly (211), and a second liquid crystal panel (222) arranged in that order from bottom to top. An area of the second liquid crystal panel is less than an area of the first liquid crystal panel, and an area of the second optical film assembly is less than an area of the first optical film assembly. The second optical film assembly of the double-sided LCD has a size no larger than that needed to perform its function in respect of light beams propagating therethrough from the light guide plate to the second liquid crystal panel. Therefore, the double-sided LCD is cost-efficient.

Abstract: A display panel includes an opposite substrate and an array substrate, the array substrate includes a first base substrate, a plurality of pixels and a color filter. The opposite substrate includes a second base substrate, a first black matrix and a second black matrix. The first black matrix maintains an interval between the second base substrate and the array substrate, and the first black matrix is formed to correspond to a display area to block light. The second black matrix includes a first area and a second area. The first area surrounds the color filter and the second area surrounds the first area. The second area includes a height different from a height of the first area when viewed in a plan view.

Abstract: A display device including a case including a front case and a rear case, a main display panel and a sub display panel disposed inside the case, a protective member disposed on a front surface of the main display panel and protecting the main display panel, and a support frame disposed inside the case and supporting both the display panel and the protective member. The support frame includes a first support part contacting a lower surface of the main display panel and a second support part supporting a lower surface of the protective member.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus has an electronic view finder assembly. The assembly has a casing including inner and outer casings; an accommodation spacing, an opening, a cover, an eye cup portion, a stopper, and a dust prevention cushion. The accommodation spacing accommodates the inner casing held in the same extension direction as the outer casing. The opening is provided in the outer casing for insertion of the inner casing into the accommodation spacing. The cover closes the opening. The eye cup portion is attached to a rearward end of the outer casing. A stopper stops forward movement of the inner casing accommodated in the accommodation spacing in the state of the opening closed by the cover. The dust prevention cushion is interposed in a compressed state between overall circumferential peripheries of respective rearwardly facing and forwardly facing wall faces of the inner and outer casings in the state where the forward movement of the inner casing is stopped by the stopper.

Abstract: A display unit includes a display mounting main body 1 secured to a ceiling to which a display is installed; the display 3 openably/closably and rotatably attached to the display mounting main body 1 through a pair of lateral rotating hinge shafts 2; and a circuit board provided as a control system of the display, wherein a wiring-relay circuit board 8 is mounted and disposed on the axis of rotation at the upper part in the extending rotating position of the display 3, and electrically connects a main circuit board disposed in the display mounting main body 1 with an LCD 4 to thereby intermediately connect wirings.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display in which image quality is enhanced by reducing coupling noise with adjacent wiring or element and noise entering therefrom, and redundancy is imparted even when short circuit of wiring takes place in a pixel and a defect can be treated as if it is not a defect. Display pixels are provided, respectively, at the intersections of a plurality of vertical signal lines (15) and a plurality of horizontal signal lines (17), each of the vertical signal lines (15) and the horizontal signal lines (17) is provided with a shield wire (3) and the potential of the shield wire (3) is set at such a level as to display the display pixel in black.

Abstract: A TFT array panel and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed, wherein an adhesion force between an elongated wire and a TFT array panel pad is improved by increasing the contact area of a bonding pad. The TFT array panel pad includes a first conductive layer formed in a pad region on an insulating substrate. The first conductive layer includes a plurality of conductive islands and holes. A second conductive layer is formed over and covers the first conductive layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes adjacent sub pixels with adjacent reflection regions and adjacent transmission regions. The device also includes a liquid crystal layer thickness adjusting layer that is continuously formed between two of the sub pixels and provided at least in reflection region. The liquid crystal layer thickness adjusting layer is disposed between the first sub pixel and the second sub pixel having a groove extending from the transmission region and along a boundary between the first and second sub pixels. The color filter for the first sub pixel transmits a color light having the lowest visibility corresponds. Further, a spacer is optionally disposed on an extension line of the groove or at a location adjacent to the groove.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a pixel array structure is provided. The first substrate includes a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, and the second substrate includes a common electrode. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The pixel array structure includes a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of protrusions. The pixel units are arranged as an array, and each pixel unit includes an active device and a pixel electrode electrically connected the active device, wherein the pixel electrode has a plurality of electrode sections. The protrusions are substantially located in at least one junction region of the electrode sections. The liquid crystal molecules in the LCD panel have fast response speed and correct arrangement direction.

Abstract: A dual panel display has a housing, a first display panel, a second display panel, and a backlight module positioned between the first display panel and the fixing face of the housing. The backlight module includes a light guide panel, a light source, at least a transflective film and at least an optical property enhancement film between the light guide panel and the second display panel. The transflective film is positioned between the light guide panel and the fixing face for reflecting a part of light from the light guide sheet so that the part of light passes back into the light guide panel.

Abstract: The invention is generally related to a polymer/liquid crystal composite, which includes a liquid crystal material which exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase in the temperature range of approximately 5° C. or more in the elevated temperature process but does not exhibit a nematic phase; and a polymer, and which is used for an element driven in a state of the optically isotropic liquid crystal phase.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device, including: forming alignment layers over a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein the first and second substrates have a first region and a second region, the first and second regions each including a panel region, wherein a panel region in the first region has a different driving mode than a panel in the second region; producing a first alignment direction in the alignment layers of the first region; producing a second alignment direction in the alignment layers of the second region; assembling the first and second substrates together; and dividing the assembled substrates into liquid crystal display panels.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel including a first substrate and a second substrate which interpose an electro-optical material therebetween, a transparent conductive film disposed on an outer surface of the first substrate or the second substrate, and a base member having an electrode electrically connected to the transparent conductive film via an adhesive, in which the electrode is formed at a region having a plane shape, which is the same as or narrower than that of the base member, the base member is provided with concave portions or through-holes disposed along a side thereof, and the concave portions or the through-holes are provided with the adhesive.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anistropic diffusion sheet, which comprises an isotropic diffusion layer for isotropically diffusing the light incident from the light source portion by internal light scattering; and a plurality of reflectors which is disposed at an interval on the upper surface of the isotropic diffusion layer, so as to reflect the light isotropically diffused by the isotropic diffusion layer to the display panel, wherein the light, emitted from the light source portion and then becomes incident to the isotropic diffusion layer, is isotropically diffused through the isotropic diffusion layer, the light isotropically illuminated by the isoptropic diffusion layer is the reflected by the plurality of reflector to be anisotropically diffuse, and this anisotropically diffused light becomes incident to the liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device has a rear frame, a reflection sheet, a backlight, a pair of light frames, a liquid crystal panel, a bezel. The device further includes a cell guide for fixing the liquid crystal panel. In the cell guide, engagement portions are formed, and engaged with corresponding locking portions formed in the pair of light frames.

Abstract: A directional display device that separates and displays images on an image display surface of a display panel in different viewing directions. The directional display device includes a polarization control unit which is arranged in front of the display panel. A liquid crystal lens is arranged in front of the polarization control unit. A polarization plate is arranged in front of the liquid crystal lens. The polarization control unit has first and second polarization areas which change incident light rays to light rays having different polarization axes. The liquid crystal lens includes a lens layer including having lenses with a predetermined refractive index and a liquid crystal layer. An alignment state of the liquid crystal layer is changed so as to change the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer and change the refractive power of the liquid crystal lens.

Abstract: A lighting device for a display device includes a plurality of light sources, a power source arranged to provide drive power for the light sources, a common electrode arranged to supply the drive power to the plurality of light sources, a plurality of holder electrodes arranged to hold the respective light sources and supply the drive power from the common electrode individually to the respective light sources, and a dielectric portion provided between the common electrode and each of the holder electrodes.

Abstract: In a backlight apparatus, laminated optical sheets are housed in a tray such that a wall portion thereof surrounds their circumferences so that the optical sheets receive light from fluorescent lights. Tips of one corner portion A of optical sheets preferably have a shape in which the tips are trimmed by line segments extending between two edges defining the corner portions. At the wall portion of the tray, an opposing surface is formed along the line segments of the corner portions so as to correspond to the shape of the corner portions having tips trimmed off. The opposing surface restrains the line segments.

Abstract: An inexpensive display device, as well as an electrical apparatus employing the same, can be provided. In the display device in which a pixel section and a driver circuit are included on one and the same insulating surface, the driver circuit includes a decoder 100 and a buffer section 101. The decoder 100 includes a plurality of NAND circuits each including p-channel TFTs 104 to 106 connected to each other in parallel and other p-channel TFTs 107 to 109 connected to each other in series. The buffer section 101 includes a plurality of buffers each including three p-channel TFTs 114 to 116.

Abstract: A flat panel display module comprises a display panel clamped by a first frame and a second frame structure. The first frame includes a sidewall and an elastic piece, wherein the sidewall encloses the display panel and has a breach. The elastic piece is disposed in the breach of the sidewall. The second frame can be assembled on the first frame. The second frame presses the elastic piece so that the elastic piece is curved to contact a side of the display panel.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device capable of realizing a viewing angle equivalent to the Braun tube and for controlling display with an electric field in parallel with a substrate surface, a liquid crystal display device is provided which is less in unevenness of display and homogeneous in luminance. A liquid crystal display device has a pair of transparent substrates arranged oppositely through a liquid crystal, means for regulating a direction of initial alignment of the liquid crystal, and a pixel electrode and a counter electrode formed spaced from each other in each pixel region on a liquid crystal side surface of the transparent substrate, wherein an electric field is given between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode to thereby control an amount of light transmitting in the crystal liquid between the electrodes.

Abstract: The invention provides a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate comprises a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, gate terminals, data terminals and thin film transistors as well as a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having the TFT substrate. The gate terminal and/or data terminal contain a first portion and a second portion, and the first potion and the second portion are connected electrically with an end electrode made of a material which is anticorrosive in the air. The thin film transistor substrate of the invention prevents the spreading of the metal corrosion occurred at the gate leads to the display region of the LCD, and therefore the quality of the LCD device can be ensured.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first electrode formed on the first substrate, a passivation layer formed between the first substrate and the first electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a second electrode formed on the second substrate, a columnar spacer formed between the second substrate and the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules vertically aligned with respect to the first and second substrates, and formed between the first and second substrates. The passivation layer and the columnar spacer are made of substantially the same material at the same layer.