Patent ID: 8542338

Claim:
An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device, comprising: first and second substrates facing each other; a gate line and a data line arranged on the first substrate crossing each other and defining a pixel region; a switching device at a crossing of the gate line and the data line on the first substrate; a passivation layer on the first substrate, wherein the passivation film includes a contact hole; a common electrode and a pixel electrode alternately disposed in the pixel region, at least one of the common electrode and the pixel electrode including a multi-layer having an opaque reflectance reducing layer and a transparent conductor layer, the transparent conductor layer is formed on an upper surface of the opaque reflectance reducing layer; and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates, wherein the common electrode and the pixel electrode are formed to generate an electric field parallel to a surface of the first substrate, the opaque reflectance reducing layer has a width smaller than a width of the transparent conductor layer so that a portion of an area of a bottom surface of the transparent conductor layer is contacted with a whole area of the upper surface of the opaque reflectance reducing layer and an overhanging side surface of the transparent conductive layer is not contacted with a side surface of the opaque reflectance reducing layer, wherein the side surface of the opaque reflectance reducing layer to be not contacted with the transparent conductor layer is vertical to an upper surface of the passivation film, and wherein a portion of the opaque reflectance reducing layer is formed in the contact hole and a bottom surface of the opaque reflectance reducing layer is directly contacted with the upper surface of the passivation film.