Patent ID: 7179394

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display (LCD), the method comprising: forming gate electrodes, gate bus lines and gate pads on a transparent lower substrate having an active area, a gate link line area and a gate pad area; forming a gate insulating layer on the transparent lower substrate; forming an amorphous silicon layer and a doped amorphous silicon layer on the gate electrodes; forming source/drain electrodes, data bus lines and data pads on the transparent lower substrate; coating an organic passivation layer on the transparent lower substrate; opening a contact hole through the organic passivation layer on the source/drain electrodes, and removing the organic passivation layer coated on a data pad area and the gate pad area; etching the gate insulating layer using the organic passivation layer having the contact hole as a mask to expose the gate pad area and the gate bus lines; and depositing a metal layer on the active area, the gate link line area and the gate pad area to form a reflection electrode, wherein the organic passivation layer is entirely removed in a range of the pad areas to the link line area, wherein the metal layer is deposited directly on the pad areas and link line area in the range.