Patent ID: 8139193

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display comprising a lower substrate, an upper substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower and upper substrates, in which a gate line and a data line intersect each other and define a pixel area on the lower substrate and a switching element is provided at an intersection between the gate line and the data line, the method comprising: forming a transparent common electrode on the substrate; sequentially forming the gate line, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, the data line, an interlayer insulating layer and a transparent pixel electrode having a plurality of slits on the transparent common electrode; and applying and rubbing an alignment layer for aligning the liquid crystal layer on the transparent pixel electrode, wherein arrangement between the transparent common electrode and the transparent pixel electrode is regulated with respect to the data line to reduce light leakage and coupling phenomena without a light shielding region above the data line, one end of the transparent common electrode is arranged between the data line and the transparent pixel electrode, a ratio (L 3 /L 1 ) of a distance (L 1 ) between the data line and the transparent pixel electrode to a distance (L 3 ) between the data line and the transparent common electrode is within 0.75, and wherein forming the active layer comprises forming the active layer below the data line to have a plurality of separated closed curve patterns and make the data line have a curved shape.