Patent ID: 7812915

Claim:
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display, comprising: forming a black matrix on a substrate; forming a color filter on the substrate where the black matrix is formed; forming a common electrode on the substrate where the color filter is formed; forming an alignment film on the substrate where the common electrode is formed; aligning a mask having a transmissive part on the substrate where the alignment film is formed; directly applying light to a portion of the alignment film corresponding to the black matrix through the transmissive part of the mask to form a surface treated area which has a surface property different from the other portion of the alignment film; depositing a spacer material at the surface treated area, wherein the spacer material is deposited at the surface treated area using an ink jet head nozzle, wherein a property of the space material is the same as the surface property of the surface treated area; forming a spacer by hardening the spacer material; and subsequently introducing a liquid crystal material over the substrate.