Patent ID: 7852438

Claim:
A transflective type LCD device comprising: a substrate having gate and data lines crossing each other to define pixel regions; a reflective part and a transmitting part in each pixel region; a buffer layer on an entire surface of the substrate and under the data lines; a pixel electrode in the reflective part and the transmitting part of the pixel region; a thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer having source and drain regions for transmitting a signal of the data line to the pixel electrode in accordance with a signal of the gate line; a reflective electrode in the reflective part of the pixel region, and an adjacent region to the thin film transistor, wherein the reflective electrode in the reflective part of the pixel region are connected with the pixel electrode; a source contact hole exposing portions of the source region of the semiconductor layer; a drain contact hole exposing portions of the drain region of the semiconductor layer; a data contact hole exposing portions of a data electrode extends from the data line, wherein the data contact hole is adjacent to source contact hole in a direction parallel to the gate line; a data insulating layer formed under the source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer and formed on the data line and the data electrode, which is formed on the buffer layer; and an electrode electrically connecting the source region of the thin film transistor exposed by the source contact hole with the data electrode exposed by the data contact hole; wherein the electrode includes the reflective electrode in the adjacent region to the thin film transistor, Or includes a transparent electrode connected with the reflective electrode in the adjacent region to the thin film transistor, and wherein the pixel electrode formed of an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) is formed within the drain contact hole to be directly connected to the drain region of the semiconductor layer.