Multi-Domain Vertical Alignment Liquid Crystal Displays With Improved Angular Dependent Gamma Curves

A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel having plural pixel regions comprising the steps of:

• providing a first substrate;
• providing a second substrate;
• forming an insulator layer on the interior surface of the second substrate;
• forming a passivation layer on the insulating layer;
• forming an over-coating layer on a portion of one of the first substrate and the passivation layer;
• forming a common electrode on a corresponding one of the first substrate the over-coating layer;
• forming a pixel electrode on the insulator layer;
• forming a plurality of non aligned common domain guides and pixel domain guides respectively in the common electrode and the pixel electrode;
• forming an electric shield adjacent to the over-coating layer on the corresponding one of the common electrode and pixel electrode;
• sandwiching a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates;
• and
• connecting a drive circuit with the common electrode and the pixel electrode for applying a voltage to the common electrode and the pixel electrode to generate an electric field between the first substrate and the second substrate to control a liquid crystal molecule orientation corresponding to a positioning of the plurality of common and pixel domain guides and plurality of electric shields to form a multi-domain vertically aligned liquid crystal display panel.

A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display panel comprising:

• a first substrate;
• a common electrode disposed on the first substrate;
• a first and a second common domain guide in the common electrode dividing the common electrode into a first, second and third common electrode;
• a second substrate having an insulating layer on an interior surface facing the first substrate;
• a passivation layer formed on the insulating layer;
• an over coating formed over a portion of the passivation layer;
• a pixel electrode formed on the other portion of the passivation layer, on the adjacent side of the over coating and on the exterior surface of the over coating;
• a pixel domain guides formed in the pixel electrode not covering the over coating, the pixel domain guide located below and between the first and second common domain guides;
• a pixel electric shield formed over the pixel electrode adjacent to the over coating layer and the pixel domain guide below one of the common domain guides to separate the pixel electrode into different regions;
• a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates;
• and
• a drive circuit connected with the common electrode and the pixel electrode for applying a voltage to generate an electric field between the first substrate and the second substrate to control a liquid crystal molecule orientation corresponding to a positioning of the plurality of common and pixel domain guides and plurality of electric shields to form a multi-domain vertical aligned liquid crystal display panel having eight domains.

The liquid crystal display panel of claim 32, wherein the drive circuit comprises:

• a plurality of scan lines;
• a plurality of data lines;
• and
• plural thin film transistors, one of the plural thin firm transistors deposited in each pixel region of the liquid crystal display panel, the plural thin film transistors connected to the plural scan lines and the plural data lines.