Patent ID: 7009671

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a substrate used for a liquid crystal device by slant vacuum deposition of an inorganic material on an underlayer having a gap section on a surface formed on the substrate so as to form an inorganic alignment layer, comprising: a first slant vacuum deposition step of disposing the inorganic material unidirectionally on the underlayer having the gap section formed on the substrate so as to form a first inorganic slant vacuum deposition layer; a second slant vacuum deposition step of disposing the inorganic material on the substrate unidirectionally, a direction in the second slant vacuum deposition step having an azimuth angle different from at least an azimuth angle of the first slant vacuum deposition step so as to form a second inorganic slant vacuum deposition layer near the gap section and on the first inorganic slant vacuum deposition layer, wherein the direction for disposing the inorganic material unidirectionally in the first or the second slant vacuum deposition step is along a longitudinal direction of the gap section.