Patent ID: 7701524

Claim:
A method for fabricating an LCD device, comprising: providing a substrate; forming an active pattern having a source region, a drain region and a channel region on the substrate; forming a first insulation film on the substrate on the active pattern; forming first and second conductive films on the first insulation film; patterning the first and second conductive films to form a gate electrode, a gate line, a pixel electrode and a pixel electrode pattern such that both the gate electrode and the gate line are formed as a dual layer having the first and second conductive films, the pixel electrode is formed of the first conductive film, and the pixel electrode pattern having the second conductive film remains on the pixel electrode; forming a second insulation film on the substrate on the gate electrode, the gate line and the pixel electrode; forming a photosensitive film on the surface of the substrate; applying a contact hole mask designed to pattern a pixel electrode region larger than the pixel electrode; forming a photosensitive film pattern by irradiating and developing the photosensitive film, wherein the photosensitive film pattern on the pixel electrode is patterned larger than the pixel electrode to be formed around the pixel electrode with a certain interval (Dm) from a edge of the pixel electrode; forming a first and a second contact hole exposing a portion of the source and drain regions of the active pattern, respectively, and opening the pixel electrode region by removing a portion of the first and second insulation films using the photosensitive film pattern as a mask, wherein the contact hole mask for opening the pixel electrode region is designed to be larger than the pixel electrode in consideration of the alignment error of the mask and wherein the first and second insulation films positioned at the certain distance (Dm) from the edge of the pixel electrode are removed; removing the whole pixel electrode pattern on the pixel electrode using the photosensitive film pattern as the mask; forming a source electrode electrically connected to the source region through the first contact hole; and forming a drain electrode electrically connected to the drain region through the second contact hole and to an upper and a side portions of the pixel electrode.