Patent ID: 8289489

Claim:
A fringe-field-switching (FFS)-mode liquid crystal display (LCD) comprising a lower substrate, an upper substrate, and a liquid crystal (LC) layer interposed between the lower and upper substrates, wherein respective pixel regions are defined on the lower substrate by a gate line and data lines intersecting each other, and a switching device including a drain electrode, a source electrode, and a channel region is disposed at each of intersections between the gate line and the data lines, the FFS-mode LCD comprising: a transparent common electrode disposed over the entire region including the gate line and the data lines with at least a first interlayer insulating layer interposed therebetween; a conductive reflection structure electrically connected to the transparent common electrode and disposed over the data line and the gate line including a portion of the switching device; and a transparent pixel electrode disposed in each of the pixel regions over the transparent common electrode and the conductive reflection structure with at least a second interlayer insulating layer therebetween, including a plurality of slits, and electrically connected to the drain electrode of the switching device.