Patent ID: 6917410

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a first insulating substrate; a plurality of first signal lines formed on the first insulating substrate; a plurality of second signal lines formed on the first insulating substrate and insulated from and intersecting the first signal lines; a pixel electrode formed on a pixel area defined by intersections of the first signal lines and the second signal lines; a thin film transistor connected to one of the first signal lines, one of the second signal lines and the pixel electrode; a second insulating substrate opposite to the first insulating substrate; a common electrode formed on the second insulating substrate; and a liquid crystal material interposed between the first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate, a first domain partitioning member formed on one of the first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate; and a second domain partitioning member formed on one of the first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate; wherein liquid crystal molecules contained in the liquid crystal material are aligned substantially perpendicular to the first and the second substrates in absence of electric field between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal material is in a range of −4.0 to −5.5, and the first and second domain partitioning members divide the pixel area into a plurality of first and second domains, the first and second domains have length and width, and the length directions of the first and second domains substantially perpendicular to each other.