Patent ID: 7768615

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a first substrate; a gate line formed on the first substrate; a data line formed on the first substrate; a first field-generating electrode formed on the first substrate, the first field-generating electrode comprising a first aperture as a domain divider in an upper portion and a second aperture as a domain divider in a lower portion; a second substrate, spaced apart from the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer comprising liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric anisotropy and aligned substantially in a vertical direction to the first substrate when no electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layer, the liquid crystal layer being interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and divided into a plurality of domain areas by the first aperture and the second aperture when an electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the first aperture and the second aperture are linear apertures respectively, and are substantially arranged in a chevron and are slantingly extended with respect to the gate line or the data line, wherein no other linear aperture as a domain divider crosses over or meets the first aperture or the second aperture, and the first and second apertures are spaced apart from each other in a pixel region, and wherein widths of the first aperture and the second aperture are about 3 μm to about 15 μm, respectively.