Patent ID: 8045114

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate; a gate line and a data line on the first substrate that cross each other to define a pixel region; a pixel electrode in the pixel region; a thin film transistor in an intersection region of the gate and data interconnections, and connected to the pixel electrode; at least one electric field distortion unit between the pixel electrode and the first substrate such that the at least one electric field distortion unit divides the pixel electrode into two or more parts to control a liquid crystal director by electric field distortion; and a layer of liquid crystal molecules between the first and second substrates, wherein the at least one electric field distortion unit is a stepped portion including a gate metal layer, wherein the stepped portion includes a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, a source/drain electrode layer and a passivation layer, and the pixel electrode is over the stepped portion, wherein the gate metal layer, the gate insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and the source/drain electrode layer of the stepped portion are patterned in a slit form and they are stacked in sequence, wherein the passivation layer of the stepped portion is directly contacted on the source/drain electrode layer patterned in the slit form and the first substrate of the pixel region, and wherein the at least one electric field distortion unit is parallel to the data line.