A liquid crystal display device that uses, as a switching element, a three-terminal organic electronic device comprising a first electrode formed on a substrate, a second electrode that is arranged at a distance from the first electrode, and a third electrode that electrically connects the first electrode and the second electrode via a conductive organic thin film of organic molecules which include, at one end, a terminal bonding group that is covalently bonded to the substrate surface, wherein the terminal bonding group is at least one selected from a siloxane (—SiO—)-containing bonding group and a silicon nitride (—SiN—)-containing bonding group, and wherein the Si atomic nucleus and the N atomic nucleus can be additionally furnished with other bonded groups with corresponding valence;
- a conjugate bonding group that is located at any portion of the oriented organic molecules away from the terminal bonding group covalently bonded to the substrate surface, and that is polymerized with the conjugate bonding groups of the other oriented organic molecules;
- and a polar functional group that does not include active hydrogen and that is located at any portion between the terminal bonding group and the conjugate bonding group on the oriented organic molecules, wherein the polar functional group that does not include active hydrogen is at least one group selected from an ester group (—COO—), an oxycarbonyl group (—OCO—), a carbonyl group (—CO—), and a carbonate group (—OCOO—), and bonded to both sides of the polar functional group are alkylene groups which are —(CH2)m- and —(CH2)n-, where m and n are integers;
- and the oriented organic molecules with their conjugate bonding groups are polymerized, forming a conduction network;
- wherein the third electrode is sandwiched between the substrate and the conductive organic thin film, is insulated from said first and second electrodes, and controls an electric field that acts on the conductive organic thin film through the voltage applied between itself and the first electrode or the second electrode, the liquid display device comprising:
- an array substrate on which a plurality of the switching elements are arranged in a matrix on the substrate;
- a first oriented film formed on the surface of the array substrate;
- a color filter substrate in which color elements are arranged in a matrix on a transparent substrate;
- a second oriented film formed on a surface of the color filter substrate;
- and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, which are in opposition to one another with the first oriented film and the second oriented film facing inward.