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Liquid crystal display having high aperture ratio and high transmittance

US6429918B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 27, 1999
Grant dateAug 6, 2002
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Expiry dateOct 27, 2019

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F1/136218
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display having high aperture ratio and high transmittance that is capable of reducing the size of a leakage light generating region.The present invention provides a liquid crystal display comprising: a lower substrate; a gate bus line and a data bus line, both disposed in an active matrix type so as to define a sub-pixel on the lower substrate; a counter electrode formed at the sub-pixel region of the lower substrate, made of a transparent material, wherein a common signal is applied to the counter electrode; a pixel electrode formed at the sub-pixel region of the lower substrate, made of a transparent material, wherein the pixel electrode forms a fringe field with the counter electrode; a thin film transistor formed at an intersection of the gate bus line and the data bus line, wherein when the gate bus line is selected, the thin film transistor transmits a signal of the data bus line to the pixel electrode; an upper substrate opposed to the lower substrate with intervening a selected distance; a black matrix formed at an inner surface of the upper substrate and arranged so as to define the sub-pixel; a shielding electrode formed at an inner surface o…

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