Patent ID: 6982769

Claim:
A substrate for a LCD device comprising: a transparent plate; switching elements for respective pixels, formed on the plate; protrusions for the respective pixels, formed on the plate in such a way as to protrude to a vicinity of an outermost surface of the substrate; each of the protrusions raising an electrode of a corresponding one of the switching elements to the vicinity of the outermost surface in a corresponding one of the pixels; a planarization layer formed in such a way as to cover the switching elements, the protrusions, and the electrodes of the elements in all the pixels, a surface of the planarization layer forming the outermost surface, the planarization layer having at least one contact hole formed over each corresponding protrusion, partially exposing the electrodes; pixel electrodes for the respective pixels, formed on the outermost surface; and each of the pixel electrodes being contacted with a corresponding one of the electrodes of the switching elements in the vicinity of the outermost surface.