Liquid crystal cell and method of producing liquid crystal cell

A method of producing a liquid crystal cell comprising a first substrate including a plate surface including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area and a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, the method comprising:

• forming a functional layer on any one of the first substrate and the second substrate from an organic material and with a thickness of 1 μm or greater,
• defining a section of the functional layer in an area of the any one of the first substrate and the second substrate to form a passage for a liquid crystal material as a base layer,
• forming a spacer to protrude from the functional layer with a height corresponding to a cell gap between the first substrate and the second substrate,
• forming a protrusion simultaneously with the forming of the spacer to protrude from the base layer toward another one of the first substrate and the second substrate,
• applying a sealant to a peripheral section of the plate surface of the first substrate except for an area corresponding to the passage and sections of the plate surface of the first substrate adjacent to sides of the area corresponding to the passage,
• defining a section of the sealant applied to the peripheral section as a surrounding wall,
• defining sections of the sealant applied to the sides of the area corresponding to the passage as passage walls,
• bonding the first substrate to the second substrate with the sealant with the cell gap between the first substrate and the second substrate,
• defining a space defined by the surrounding wall between the first substrate and the second substrate as a filling space, and
• injecting the liquid crystal material into the filling space via the passage defined by the passage walls.