Patent ID: 8537314

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a first panel having a pixel electrode, the pixel electrode includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode; a second panel facing the first panel and having a common electrode; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first panel and the second panel, the liquid crystal layer having vertically-aligned liquid crystal molecules; a first alignment layer disposed on the pixel electrode; a second alignment layer disposed on the common electrode; a thin film transistor having a drain electrode which is connected to the first pixel electrode; an extension portion is extended from the drain electrode, wherein at least one of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer divides the pixel electrode into a plurality of domains, is formed to have a plurality of pretilt directions, each pretilt direction of the plurality of pretilt directions defines a domain of each of the plurality of domains of the pixel electrode, and pretilts the vertically-aligned liquid crystal molecules in the domain according to the corresponding pretilt direction of the domain wherein a sum of horizontal component directions of the corresponding pretilt direction of the domain of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer is substantially directed to a center of the pixel electrode from a peripheral boundary thereof, and wherein a width of the extension portion aligned with the second sub-pixel electrode is wider than a width of the extension portion aligned with the first sub-pixel electrode.