Patent ID: 8619225

Claim:
A transmission type liquid crystal display device, which includes a plurality of pixels and switching elements provided in correspondence with the pixels, the liquid crystal display device comprising: an element substrate in which the switching elements are formed, each switching element including a drain electrode; an interlayer insulating film that is formed on the switching elements and has a thickness ranging from 1.5 to 2 Î¼m; a first electrode layer that is formed on the interlayer insulating film and connected to the drain electrode; and a second electrode layer that overlaps the first electrode in plan view through an interelectrode insulating film, the element substrate having the second electrode, wherein: each of the pixels includes a first region and a second region, the first electrode layer is between the interlayer insulating film and the second electrode layer, the first electrode layer overlaps the second electrode layer in plan view in the first region, of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, only the first electrode layer is formed in the second region, the first electrode layer has a thickness of 50 nm to 200 nm, the second electrode layer has a thickness of 30 nm to 100 nm, and the interelectrode insulating film has a thickness of less than 0.4 Î¼m, the thickness of the second electrode layer is smaller than the thickness of the first electrode layer, and the thickness of the first electrode layer is less than the thickness of the drain electrode.