Patent ID: 7259806

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a display panel including a lower layer at the lowest portion of the display panel and an uppermost layer, positioned above the lowest layer at the uppermost portion of said display panel; a first substrate forming said uppermost layer of said display panel, including: a) a switching element on the first substrate, said switching element being connected to a gate line and a data line, the switching element being a thin film transistor having a gate electrode formed on the first substrate, a gate insulating layer formed on an exposed surface of the first substrate while covering the gate electrode, an active layer on the gate insulating layer over the gate electrode, an ohmic contact layer on the active layer, and a source electrode on the ohmic contact layer, a drain electrode on the ohmic contact layer; b) a passivation film formed over the whole surface of the first substrate while covering the switching element; c) a pixel electrode on the passivation film; d) a black matrix formed on the passivation film and over the switching element; e) a color filter formed over the pixel electrode; and f) a first orientation film formed on the black matrix and the color filter and above the pixel electrode; a second substrate having no switching element disposed thereon, forming said lowest portion of the display panel, said second substrate being aligned with the first substrate, said second substrate having a common electrode and a second orientation film, said second orientation film being formed on the common electrode; a sealant for sealing said first and second substrates; a liquid crystal layer interposed between said first and second substrates; and a backlight device disposed beneath said second substrate such that said second substrate is located between said backlight device and said first substrate, wherein the thin film transistor further includes a gate light absorbing film formed only under the gate line and the gate electrode, a source light absorbing film formed only under the source electrode and the data line, and a drain light absorbing film formed only under the drain electrode.