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AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyasu Inoue, Kenichi Nagaoka, Yuji Nakahata, Yoji Taniguchi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Yohei Nakanishi, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki
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A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, defined as a first substrate and a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates. The device also includes a pixel electrode and an additional electrode formed on the first substrate, and a contact hole that is configured and arranged to connect the pixel electrode and the additional electrode. In certain embodiments, the contact hole is formed at a liquid crystal domain boundary. In other embodiments, an additional contact hole is also provided between the pixel electrode and a second additional electrode, and in such embodiments the contact hole and the additional contact hole are formed within different liquid crystal domains. Further, in certain embodiments, the pixel electrode includes a plurality of pixel electrode slits arranged in a pattern to form a plurality of liquid crystal domains within each pixel.
A liquid crystal display device comprising:
A liquid crystal display device comprising:
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Active matrix addressed cells: in which the switching element is a three-electrode device
Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods: surface-induced orientation of the liquid crystal molecules, e.g. by alignment layers
Active matrix addressed cells: storage capacitors associated with the pixel electrode
Optical devices or arrangements for the control of light by modification of
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device to be used for television and other display apparatuses, to a method of fabricating the same and, more particularly, to a liquid crystal display device that uses a liquid crystal material containing a photosensitive material and a method of fabricating the same.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view showing one example of a liquid crystal display device fabricated according to the prior art.
FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the liquid crystal display device of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view showing one example of the liquid crystal display device fabricated according to the prior art.
The first aspect of the invention discloses the following methods as specific implementations thereof.
1) The method described in above item (1), wherein the common electrode and the Cs bus line are insulated from each other or connected via high resistance when radiating the light to the liquid crystal layer.
2) The method described in above item (1), wherein after radiating the light to the liquid crystal layer, the common electrode and the Cs bus line are electrically connected together.