Patent ID: 8830427

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a display panel including a first substrate including a plurality of pixel areas and a plurality of pixel electrodes in the pixel areas, respectively, a second substrate including a common electrode facing the first substrate and the pixel electrodes, a first alignment layer formed on the pixel electrodes includes a first area aligned in a first direction and a second area aligned in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a second alignment layer formed on the common electrode includes a third area aligned in a third direction different from the first direction and a fourth area aligned in a fourth direction opposite to the third direction, wherein the first direction of the first area is not perpendicular to the third direction of the third area and wherein the second direction of the second area is not perpendicular to the fourth direction of the fourth area; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer and including liquid crystal molecules that are aligned in different directions from each other in plural domains defined by the first area, the second area, the third area and the fourth area, and the different directions are defined radially with respect to the center of the plural domains; and a polarizing plate attached to one surface of the display panel and including a transmission axis and an absorption axis that is substantially perpendicular to the transmission axis.