Abstract:
A substrate has an array testing system for use in a liquid crystal display device. The substrate includes a plurality of array cells each including a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a pad area adjacent to first and second sides of the non-display area. The substrate further includes a plurality of test pads outside the plurality of array cells and a plurality of test lines each connecting a corresponding one of the array cells with a corresponding one of the test pads. Here, each one of the test lines partially pass through the non-display area of an array cell adjacent to the corresponding one of the array cells.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating an array substrate having a color filter on a thin film transistor structure for a liquid crystal display device is disclosed in the present invention. The method for fabricating the array substrate includes forming a gate line and a data line crossing each other and defining a pixel region, forming a thin film transistor at each intersection of the gate and data lines, wherein the thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, forming a first insulating layer to cover the thin film transistor and the data line, forming a black matrix on the first insulating layer, except for a portion of the drain electrode, forming a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer to cover the black matrix, pattering the first and second insulating layers to expose a portion of the drain electrode, forming a first transparent electrode layer over a surface of the substrate to cover the patterned second insulating layer and the exposed portion of the drain electrode, patterning the first transparent electrode layer to form a pixel electrode in the pixel region, wherein the pixel electrode contacts the exposed portion of the drain electrode, forming a color filter on the pixel electrode, forming a second transparent electrode over a surface of the substrate to cover the color filter and the pixel electrode, wherein the second transparent electrode is in an amorphous state, irradiating a light to a portion of the second transparent electrode layer corresponding to the pixel region so as to crystallize the irradiated portion of the second transparent electrode, and forming a second pixel electrode in the pixel region by removing the non-crystallized portion of the second transparent electrode layer, wherein the second pixel electrode contacts the first pixel electrode over the black matrix.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a black matrix layer on the substrate and having a first plurality of openings, a color filter layer on the black matrix layer and having a second plurality of openings, and a plurality of column spacers each contacting the substrate through the first plurality and second plurality of openings.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device including a color filter is disclosed in the present invention. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate where a plurality of sub-pixels are defined thereon, a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate, and a color filter layer on the second substrate, facing into the first substrate, and having a red sub-color filter, a green sub-color filter, and a blue sub-color filter, wherein one blue sub-color filter corresponds to two sub-pixels adjacent to each other in a first direction perpendicular to a second direction where the red, green, and blue sub-color filters are alternately located.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal panel, a bottom cover having a plurality of lamps installed thereabove, a reflection sheet for reflecting the light generated from the lamps and a main support having openings in which the lamps are inserted, an extension part extending from the openings, and a supporting member for supporting the liquid crystal panel.
Abstract:
An array substrate of an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line and a data line on the substrate crossing each other to define a pixel area, a thin film transistor at the crossing of the gate line and the data line, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode having a first inclined side with respect to the gate line, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, a common line parallel to the gate line, a common electrode having a second inclined side parallel to the first inclined side of the gate electrode within the pixel area, and a pixel electrode alternating with the common electrode within the pixel area, wherein the first inclined side of the gate electrode and the second inclined side of the common electrode are perpendicular to an alignment direction of the array substrate.
Abstract:
An inverter device for a liquid crystal display includes a transformer for receiving an inverter drive voltage, converting the received drive voltage into an AC lamp drive voltage and supplying the AC lamp drive voltage to a high path of a backlight lamp, a low path switching part selectively connecting a low path of the backlight lamp with a ground voltage source in response to an external inverter ON/OFF signal, and a shutdown circuit for receiving a voltage input through the low path of the backlight lamp to monitor for a malfunction of the backlight lamp in response to an external shutdown ON/OFF signal.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device includes an image display part formed on a first substrate where data lines and gate lines are vertically and horizontally arranged, respectively, to intersect each other, a plurality of gate tape carrier packages having a gate driving integrated circuit for driving the gate lines, a plurality of data tape carrier packages having a data driving integrated circuit for driving the data lines, a plurality of conductive lines formed at an outer side of the image display part of the first substrate for supplying gate driving signals to the gate driving integrated circuits, a first control signal line formed together with the conductive lines for supplying a first control signal to the gate driving integrated circuits so that the gate lines of the image display part may be sequentially driven from the first one to the last one, a second control signal line formed together with the conductive lines for supplying a second control signal to the gate driving integrated circuits so that the gate lines of the image display part may be sequentially driven from the last one to the first one, and a first controller for supplying the first and second control signals to the first and second control signal lines.
Abstract:
A method of forming an array substrate for use in a liquid crystal display device includes forming a gate line, a gate pad, and a gate electrode, forming a first gate insulating layer to cover the gate line, the gate pad, and the gate electrode, forming an active layer and an ohmic contact layer on the first gate insulating layer, forming a data line, a data pad, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, forming a second insulating layer to cover the thin film transistor, forming a black matrix on the second insulating layer to cover the thin film transistor, the gate line, and the data line except a first portion of the drain electrode, forming a third insulating layer to cover the black matrix, patterning the first, second, and third insulating layers, forming a first transparent electrode layer to cover the patterned third insulating layer, coating an adhesive color film on the first transparent electrode layer, irradiating a laser to portions of the adhesive color film corresponding to the pixel region, removing the adhesive color film to form a color film, repeating coating the adhesive color film, irradiating the laser and removing the adhesive color film to form the color film within all of the pixel regions, forming a second transparent electrode to cover the color filter and the first transparent electrode layer, and patterning the first and second transparent electrode layers to form first and second pixel electrodes, a double-layered gate pad terminal, and a double-layered data pad terminal.
Abstract:
A back light unit provides light to a light emission surface of a liquid crystal display device. The back light includes a plurality of lamps, a plurality of inverters, a plurality of first power lines, and a plurality of second power lines. Each lamp has first and second ends and is disposed substantially only in one of an integer (n) number regions of the light emission surface wherein the regions divide a length of the light emission surface into n regions. Each one of the first power lines are respectively connected to the first ends of the lamps and first connectors of the inverters, and each one of the second power lines are respectively connected to the second ends of the lamps and second connectors of the inverters.