Patent ID: 7495728

Claim:
A transflective liquid crystal display device, comprising: a thin film transistor disposed at a corner of a pixel region, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a first passivation layer over the thin film transistor; a reflector disposed in the pixel region and spaced apart from the thin film transistor, the reflector formed of the same material as one of the gate, source, and drain electrodes; a color filter disposed within the pixel region, the color filter having one of red, green, and blue colors; a black matrix over the first passivation layer along color filter borders of adjacent pixel regions; a second passivation layer on the black matrix, the second passivation layer wrapping the black matrix with the first passivation layer; and a pixel electrode formed of a transparent conductive material adjacent to the color filter, the pixel electrode having a first end portion contacting the drain electrode of the thin film transistor; wherein the pixel region is divided into a reflective portion including the reflector and a transmissive portion absent of the reflector, the color filter has a first thickness in the transmissive portion and a second thickness in the reflective portion, and the first thickness is larger than the second thickness, and wherein the pixel electrode includes a first transparent pixel electrode and a second transparent pixel electrode, the first transparent pixel electrode is disposed between the black matrix and the color filter and contacts the drain electrode, and the second transparent pixel electrode is on the color filter layer to contact the first transparent pixel electrode.