A liquid crystal display device, comprising:
- a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other;
- and
- a vertical alignment-type liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate,
- wherein the liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns,
- wherein the first substrate includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a row direction, a plurality of source lines extending in a column direction, a pixel electrode provided in each of the plurality of pixels, and a first alignment film provided between the pixel electrode and the liquid crystal layer,
- wherein the second substrate includes a common electrode facing the pixel electrode, and a second alignment film provided between the common electrode and the liquid crystal layer,
- wherein the plurality of pixels each include a first liquid crystal domain, a second liquid crystal domain, a third liquid crystal domain and a fourth liquid crystal domain, in which liquid crystal molecules at a center, or in the vicinity thereof, of a layer plane and a thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer have tilt directions that are respectively a predetermined first direction, a predetermined second direction, a predetermined third direction and a predetermined fourth direction in a state where a voltage is applied between the pixel electrode and the common electrode;
- and any two directions among the first direction, the second direction, the third direction and the fourth direction have a difference that is generally equal to an integral multiple of 90 degrees,
- wherein the pixel electrode has a plurality of slits formed therein,
- wherein the plurality of slits iclude a pi rality of first slits formed in a region corresponding to the first liquid crystal domain and extending generally parallel to the first direction, a plurality of second slits formed in a region corresponding to the second crystal domain and extending generally parallel to the second direction, a plurality of third slits formed in a reqion corresponding to the third liquid crystal domain and extending generally parallel to the third direction, and a plurality of fourth slits formed in a region corresponding to the fourth liquid crystal domain and extending generally parallel to the fourth direction,
- wherein the first substrate further includes a shield common electrode formed of a transparent conductive material, provided with a potential equal to that of the common electrode, and located between the plurality of source lines and the pixel electrode in the thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer, and
- wherein the shield common electrode includes a solid portion overlapping the plurality of source lines and one end portion and the other end portion among two end portions, in the row direction, of the pixel electrode as seen in a direction normal to a display plane, and also includes a first cutout portion formed across a a region corresponding to the first liquid crystal domain, a region corresponding to the second liquid crystal domain, a region corresponding to the third liquid crystal domain and a region corresponding to the fourth liquid crystal domain in each of the plurality of pixels, the first cutoout portion including portions overlapping the plurality of slits as seen in the direction normal to the display plane.