Thin-film transistor structure for liquid crystal display having black matrixes connected to a gate line

An array of inverted thin-film transistors and black matrixes for a liquid crystal display comprising:

• a glass substrate;
• a metal layer deposited on said glass substrate, said metal layer being patterned and etched to form an array of black matrixes, each of said black matrix being separated from its adjacent black matrix by a space;
• an insulating layer formed above the surface of said array of black matrixes and said glass substrate, said insulating layer being patterned and etched to form an array of contact holes for contacting said array of black matrixes;
• and an array of inverted thin-film transistors fabricated on the surface of said insulating layer, each transistor of said array of transistors controlling an ITO pixel electrode and having a bottom gate line formed above the space between two black matrixes, both black matrixes having a part below and overlapping the gate line, one of the two black matrixes being connected to the gate line through one of said contact hole array, and the other of the two black matrixes serving as a light shield element for the ITO pixel electrode.