Patent ID: 7656467

Claim:
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display, comprising: forming a gate line on a substrate; depositing a gate insulating layer on an entire surface of the substrate having the gate line formed thereon; forming an island-like semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer over the gate line; and forming a data line on the gate insulating layer in a direction perpendicular to the gate line so as to be overlapped with one side of the semiconductor layer, wherein the data line includes a source electrode and the source electrode does not protrude from the data line; forming a drain electrode over the gate line so as to be overlapped at an opposing side of the semiconductor layer as the data line, the drain electrode entirely contained within a boundary defined by the gate line; and forming a passivation layer on an entire surface of the substrate and removing a contact portion of the passivation layer so as to have a contact hole exposing the drain electrode; and forming a pixel electrode in a pixel area so as to be connected to the drain electrode through the contact hole, wherein the contact hole is formed within the gate line.