Patent ID: 8891050

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a substrate; a gate line and a data line intersecting with the gate line on the substrate, the gate line and the data line defining a pixel region; a switching element at an intersection point of the gate line and the data line; one or more pixel electrodes parallel to the data line, the one or more pixel electrodes formed by stacking a transparent conductive material layer and an opaque metal layer; and one or more common electrodes within the pixel region to alternate with the one or more pixel electrodes, the one or more common electrodes parallel to the data line and formed by stacking the transparent conductive material layer and the opaque metal layer; wherein the stacked transparent conductive material layer and the opaque metal layer are configured to set light transmittance of zones corresponding to the pixel electrodes and the common electrodes at or below a value to prevent forming of a defect in the liquid crystal display device during a photolithography process for fabricating the liquid crystal display device, wherein each of the pixel electrodes includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode disposed at the pixel region, wherein the first pixel electrode is parallel to the gate line and the first and the second pixel electrodes have a stacked layer structure formed by the transparent conductive material layer and the opaque metal layer, and wherein the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are formed by a single body and a portion of the first pixel electrode is overlapped with a drain electrode and a channel layer of the switching element.