Lg Philips Lcd Co., Inc.

Seong Su Lee

Soon Sung Yoo

Dong Yeung Kwak

Yong Wan Kim

A photo mask for patterning a lightning rod includes a shorting bar pattern and a plurality of pad patterns, an outer lightning rod pattern connected to the shorting bar pattern, an inner lightning rod pattern connected to the pad pattern, projections from each of the outer and inner lightning rod patterns, and a fine pattern in a &ldquo;&rdquo; shape connected between the projections, or a redundancy fine pattern connected between the pad patterns, or a plurality of the lightning rod patterns connected in series, thereby protecting the photo mask for patterning a lightning rod from damage from static electricity, and permitting patterning of an accurate lightning rod.

Photo mask for patterning a lightning rod

A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes the steps of forming a gate bus line on a substrate by using a first metal, forming a gate electrode, a second gate bus line and a gate pad on the substrate, by using a second metal, forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate including the gate bus line, the gate electrode, the gate pad and the second gate bus line, by using a first insulating material, selectively forming a semiconductor layer and an impure semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer, forming a source electrode, a drain electrode, a source bus line and a source pad on the substrate including the impure semiconductor layer, by using a third metal, removing a portion of the impure semiconductor layer exposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode by etching, using the source electrode and the drain electrode as masks, forming a protection layer on the substrate including the source electrode and the drain electrode, by using a second insulating material, forming a drain contact hole on the drain electrode, a source pad contact hole on the source pad and a gate pad contact hole on the gate pad, and forming a pixel electrode on the substrate having the protection layer, using a conductive material.

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Seong Su Lee