Patent ID: 8018566

Claim:
A method for fabricating an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display, comprising: providing first and second substrates; forming a gate electrode and a gate line on the first substrate, and forming an upper common line and a lower common line respectively at upper and lower sides of the gate line; forming a first insulation film on the first substrate with the gate electrode, the gate line, the upper common line and the lower common line formed thereon; forming an active pattern and source and drain electrodes on the first substrate, and forming a data line substantially crossing the gate line to define upper and lower pixel regions; forming a second insulation film on the first substrate with the active pattern, the source electrode and the drain electrode formed thereon; forming a plurality of upper common electrodes and a plurality of upper pixel electrodes on the second insulation film in the upper pixel region, and forming a plurality of lower common electrodes and a plurality of lower pixel electrodes on the second insulation film in the lower pixel region, wherein the upper and lower common electrodes and the upper and lower pixel electrodes are formed of transparent conductive material on the same layer; forming upper first and second connection lines respectively at opposite sides of the upper pixel region on the second insulation film, and forming lower second and first connection lines respectively at opposite sides of the lower pixel region on the second insulation film, wherein the upper and lower first connection lines for connecting the upper and lower pixel electrodes are arranged on opposite sides of the respective upper and lower pixel regions, and the upper and lower second connection lines for connecting the upper and lower common electrodes are arranged on opposite sides of the respective upper and lower pixel regions so that the upper and lower first and second connection lines are not wholly affected by a data line of a corresponding pixel or a data line of an adjacent pixel but affected by half of them to thereby improve a luminance change; and attaching the first and second substrates.