IPS LCD having an organic conductive layer outside the subtrate

A method of producing a liquid crystal display which comprises:

• (1) providing an active matrix substrate having an outside surface, an inside surface and a periphery, said inside surface having disposed thereon intersecting gate and drain electrodes, switching elements at the intersections between the gate and drain electrodes, a source electrode connected to the switching element and a common electrode at least part of which faces the source electrode, to thereby provide an electric field having a direction transverse to the active matrix substrate when a voltage is developed between the source electrode and the common electrode,
• (2) providing a second substrate having an outside surface, an inside surface and a periphery,
• (3) providing a polarizing plate on the outside surface of one or both of said first and second substrates,
• (4) providing an alignment layer on the inside surfaces of each of the active matrix substrate and the second substrate,
• (5) forming an organic electroconductive film on the outside surface of one or both of the first and second substrates, or on a polarizing plate,
• (6) positioning the active matrix substrate parallel to the second substrate, providing a spacer between the two substrates to form a gap therebetween such that the inside surfaces of the active matrix substrate and the second substrate face each other, and providing a seal around the periphery of the active matrix substrate and the paired substrate to form a cell, and
• (7) injecting a liquid crystal composition into the cell.

A liquid crystal display device comprising:

• a first substrate having first and second main surfaces;
• first and second electrodes formed on said first main surface of said first substrate in parallel to each other;
• a second substrate having third and fourth main surfaces;
• a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between said first main surface of said first substrate and said third main surface of said second substrate, light transmitting through said liquid crystal layer being controlled by an electric field supplied between said first and second electrodes;
• and
• an electroconductive organic layer formed over at least one of said second main surface of said first substrate and said fourth surface of said second substrate.