Display device and electronic apparatus

A display device comprising:

• an electrode layer being provided above a first substrate and including a first electrode and a second electrode, the second electrode facing the first electrode and having an opening formed therein including a plurality of slits whose extending directions are the same as each other;
• a liquid crystal layer being provided between the first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate and having liquid crystal molecules oriented as rotating in reverse to each other in vicinity regions on one side and the other side of the opening which face each other in a width direction;
• a gate line extending across a plurality of pixels;
• a data line extending in a direction crossing the gate line;
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• a conductive layer being provided above the second substrate, the display device further includes:
• a first orientation film being provided between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer and being subjected to an orientation process in a first orientation direction which is along an extending direction of the slits;
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• a second orientation film being provided between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer and being subjected to an orientation process in a second orientation direction which is along a first orientation direction of the first orientation film,
• in an initial orientation state of the liquid crystal layer, long axes of the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in the first orientation direction,
• for each pixel, the opening includes:
• a communication opening extending in an extending direction of the data line;
• a plurality of first slits each connected to one side of the communication opening in an extending direction of the gate line and each extending in the extending direction of the gate line;
• and a plurality of second slits each connected to the other side of the communication opening in the extending direction of the gate line and each extending in the extending direction of the gate line,
• the first slits and the second slits are alternately arranged so that their positions are shifted from each other in the extending direction of the data line,
• the second electrode includes a first side extending in the extending direction of the gate line, a second side which extends in the extending direction of the gate line and which is adjacent to the first side through the first slit, a third side extending in the extending direction of the gate line, and a fourth side which extends in the extending direction of the gate line and which is adjacent to the third side through the second slit, and, each of the first side, the second side, the third side, and the fourth side does not intersect the communication opening.