A method for enhancing the conductivity of transparent conductive electrodes on display substrates by providing patterned auxiliary metallic layers adjacent to the transparent conductive material. The method of the present invention eliminates the need for aligning the auxiliary metal layers (26) with transparent conductive electrodes (22) a) by using an inclined collimated beam of metallic material (28) for depositing a metal coating (26) on resist strips (24), or b) by providing resist residuals at the corner of the metal coating, or by forming a contignous metallic coating with a periodic array of holes therein which can be etched simultaneously with the underlying transparent conductive layer.