Patent ID: 8421982

Claim:
A first display substrate for use with a spaced apart and overlying second substrate where one or more electrical contact connections are to be made between the first and second substrates, said first substrate having layer sections disposed at different heights relative to a bottom section of the first substrate and said first substrate further comprising: a color filter; a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed in a display area of the first substrate, each pixel electrode having a field producing portion and having a connecting portion where the connecting portion is electrically connected to a corresponding one of plural transistors disposed on the first substrate, each of the transistors being connected to a corresponding one of plural gate lines disposed on the first substrate and to a corresponding one of plural data lines disposed on the first substrate; an electrically insulative organic layer disposed on the first substrate, the organic layer including sections interposed between respective ones of the transistors and the field producing portions of their corresponding pixel electrodes; and a shorting pad structure disposed in a non-image displaying, peripheral area of the first substrate, the shorting pad surface comprising: a first pad electrode disposed at a first height section of the first substrate; a first height compensation structure disposed on the first pad electrode, the first substrate and first height compensation structure being disposed within a pad hole area of the first substrate, where the pad hole area is defined by a respective pad hole extending through a non-image displaying, peripheral area portion of the electrically insulative organic layer; and a second pad electrode disposed at a second height section of the first substrate, the second height section being above the first height section, where the first height compensation structure is interposed between the first and second pad electrodes and where the second pad electrode is electrically connected to the first pad electrode by way of a contact hole defined through a contact hole exposing area of the first height compensation structure.