Patent ID: 8212976

Claim:
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device comprising: preparing a first array substrate; preparing a second array substrate facing the first array substrate and having a thin film transistor and a color filter; forming a pixel electrode and a common electrode to form an electric field along with the pixel electrode; and simultaneously forming a spacer and a light shielding layer, the spacer maintaining a cell gap between the first and the second array substrates, the light shielding layer overlapping the thin film transistor at a lower portion of the spacer, wherein the light shielding layer and the spacer are concurrently patterned and contact each other, wherein the spacer includes first spacers having a first height and second spacers having a second height lower than the first height, at least one of the second spacers is formed between the first spacers, wherein the light shielding layer is disposed between the spacer and the thin film transistor; and wherein the spacer and all of the light shielding layer are formed only on the color filters.