Patent ID: 8817214

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a gate line formed on a first substrate; a data line formed on the first substrate and intersecting the gate line to define a pixel area; a common line partially surrounding the pixel area and formed along with the gate line by a same process; a thin film transistor formed at the intersection of the gate line and the data line; a common electrode having a common electrode horizontal section connected to the common line, and a common electrode finger section extending from the common electrode horizontal section with a finger shape; and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and generating a horizontal electric field along with the common electrode, wherein a part of the common electrode finger section overlaps the data line with a first passivation layer having a low dielectric and placed between the common electrode and the data line, wherein the pixel electrode has a pixel electrode horizontal section connected to the thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode finger section extending from the pixel electrode horizontal section in parallel to the common electrode finger section with a finger shape, wherein the common electrode finger section has a first portion overlapping the data line and a second portion other than the first portion, and wherein the second portion of the common electrode finger section and the finger section of the pixel electrode are directly contacting the first substrate.