Patent ID: 7790488

Claim:
A method for fabricating an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device comprising: forming gate lines on a first substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on an overall surface of the first substrate including the gate lines; forming data lines crossing the gate lines and defining pixel regions that are divided into reflection portions and transmission portions, wherein the transmission portions correspond to inner parts of the pixel regions and the reflection portions correspond to edges of the pixel regions; forming thin film transistors at the crossings of the gate lines and the data lines; forming common electrodes at the transmission portions of the pixel regions; forming reflection electrodes at the reflection portions of the pixel regions, wherein the common electrodes are integrally formed with the reflection electrodes in a same layer; forming a passivation layer on the overall surface of the first substrate including the reflection electrodes; forming pixel electrodes on the passivation layer parallel with the common electrodes and pixel electrodes overlapping the reflection electrodes; attaching a second substrate to the first substrate such that the first and second substrates face each other, and forming a liquid crystal layer there between; attaching first and second polarizing films, respectively, to outer surfaces of the first and second substrates; and attaching a compensating film between the first substrate and the first polarizing film, wherein the first and second polarizing films are disposed such that polarizing optical axes thereof are perpendicular to each other; an orientation of the liquid crystal layer initially has an angle of about 45° from the polarizing optical axis of the second polarizing film, and coincides with the polarizing optical axis when the liquid crystal layer is driven; and the compensating film is disposed such that that the optical axis thereof meets the liquid crystal layer at an angle of about 90°.