Patent ID: 8879012

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel; and a light source that emits light onto the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the liquid crystal display panel comprises: a first substrate having a thin film transistor that includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film formed on the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer formed on the gate insulating film to correspond to the gate electrode, source and drain electrodes separated from each other on the semiconductor layer, a passivation layer formed on the source and drain electrodes, a pixel electrode electrically connected through a contact hole to the drain electrode on the passivation layer, and a shielding film that is formed at the same time as the pixel electrode and is located to correspond to the gate electrode on the passivation layer; a second substrate that faces the first substrate and includes a color filter and a black matrix; and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and second substrate, wherein the shielding film intercepts the light exiting from the light source so that the light is prevented from entering into a channel part of the semiconductor layer by being reflected in the liquid crystal layer and the black matrix and the color filter of the second substrate, wherein the shielding film and the source and drain electrodes are only formed on the semiconductor layer, wherein the shielding film is disposed on a side of the pixel electrode which includes a portion that is higher than the shielding film in a direction normal to the first substrate, and wherein the shielding film is formed from the same material as the pixel electrode, and configured to minimize a leakage current of the first substrate to minimize changes due to the leakage current in a pixel voltage charged in the pixel electrode which includes the portion that is higher than the shielding film.