Variable focal length lens panel and fabricating the same

A method of fabricating a variable focal length lens panel comprising steps of:

• providing a circular transparent electrode on a transparent first substrate at the center thereof, a plurality of annular transparent electrodes which are disposed outside the circular transparent electrode concentrically and narrowed in width and interval as they are directed outward, extension electrodes which extend crosswise outward from the circular transparent electrode across the plurality of annular transparent electrodes, and an external terminal electrode disposed at a portion close to the periphery of the first substrate so as to connect respective outer ends of the extension electrodes with one another;
• providing a first alignment layer at least on an area of the first substrate where the circular transparent electrode and the annular transparent electrodes are provided, wherein said first alignment layer is subjected to an aligning treatment;
• providing a transparent electrode on an entire surface of the second substrate and a second alignment layer on the transparent electrode, wherein said second alignment layer is subjected to an aligning treatment to set an alignment direction of that in parallel with that of the first alignment layer;
• dispersing gap members on an area outside an outermost electrode of the annular transparent electrodes provided on the first substrate;
• overlapping the first and second substrates with each other by way of said gap members with the transparent electrodes thereon facing each other;
• and
• sealing a nematic liquid crystal in a gap between the first and second substrates.