Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Seung-beom Park

Jae-Jin Lyu

Yoon-Sung Um

Hoon Bae Kim

Hye-ran You

Jang-Kun Song

Ji-Won Sohn

Su-Jeong Kim

Jin-won Park

Jong-Ho Son

Min-Goo Seok

Kyeong-Hyeon Kim

Keun-Chan Oh

Jun-Hyup Lee

Myeong-Ha Kye

Hee-wook Do

Jun-Hee Na

Hye-Ran You

Dong-Gi Seong

Seon-Ah Cho

Sung-Hoon Kim

Chang-Hun Lee

Min-Jae Kim

Min-Wook Park

Seung-Hee Lee

Myung-Jae Park

Yong-Woo Choi

Youn-Hak Jeong

Su-Han Woo

Woo-Jung Shin

Gak-Seok Lee

Sang-Gyun Kim

Kyong-Sik Choi

Hye-Ran Yoo

Min-Su Kim

Hee-Seop Kim

Young-Chol Yang

Kwang-Hyun Kim

Eun-Hee Han

Min-Hee Kim

Ji-hoon Kim

Kang-Woo Kim

Beong-hun Beon

Na-Young Shin

Gwan-Young Na

Jian Gang Lu

Seung-Hoon Lee

Seoung-Hoon Lee

A LCD and a method of driving the LCD are provided. The LCD includes first and second gate lines extending in a first direction, a data line insulated from the first gate line and crossing the first gate line, a pixel electrode including first and second sub-pixel electrodes, the pixel electrode being disposed in a pixel having a long side in the first direction, a first thin film transistor (TFT) connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the first sub-pixel electrode, a second TFT connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the second sub-pixel electrode, and a third TFT connected to the second gate line, the second sub-pixel electrode, and a charge-sharing capacitor, the charge-sharing capacitor sharing a data voltage applied to the second sub-pixel electrode.

Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same

A display panel including a substrate on which a switching element is disposed, a first electrode connected to the switching element, an image displaying layer disposed under the first electrode, a second electrode disposed under the image displaying layer and insulated from the first electrode, a protective layer disposed under the second electrode and surrounding a lower surface and side surfaces of the image displaying layer, and an upper polarizing plate disposed on the substrate, and making contact with the substrate.

Display panel, display apparatus having the same and method of manufacturing the same

A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate and a liquid crystal display layer. The array substrate includes a pixel electrode and a lower reactive mesogen layer. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of slit portions disposed on a plurality of domains in different directions. The lower reactive mesogen layer is disposed on the pixel electrode to induce an inclined direction of liquid crystal molecules. The opposite substrate includes an upper substrate. An upper reactive mesogen layer is disposed on a common electrode of the opposite substrate. The liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules arranged to have a pretilt angle between a surface of the lower reactive mesogen layer and a surface of the upper reactive mesogen layer.

Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same

A liquid crystal display panel, including: a first substrate including a common electrode; a second substrate including a plurality of pixels which are arranged in a matrix form and face the common electrode, wherein at least one of the pixels includes first and second subpixels; the first subpixel including a first subpixel electrode, wherein the first subpixel electrode includes a plurality of first micro branches, which are arranged at a first angle with respect to a polarization axis of a polarizer disposed adjacent to the first or second substrate; the second subpixel including a second subpixel electrode, wherein the second subpixel electrode includes a plurality of second micro branches, which are arranged at a second angle with respect to the polarization axis of the polarizer, wherein the first angle is different from the second angle by about 20&#xb0; or less; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates.

Pixel electrode panel, a liquid crystal display panel assembly and methods for manufacturing the same

A liquid crystal display panel, including: a pixel electrode formed on a first substrate; an alignment layer formed on the pixel electrode, wherein the alignment layer includes an alignment layer material and aligns first liquid crystal molecules in a direction substantially perpendicular to the pixel electrode; and a photo hardening layer formed on the alignment layer, wherein the photo hardening layer includes a photo hardening layer material and aligns second liquid crystal molecules to be tilted with respect to the pixel electrode, wherein the alignment layer material and the photo hardening layer material have different polarities from each other.

A liquid crystal display device is provided, including a liquid crystal layer interposed between a first display panel and a second display panel; and an alignment film formed on at least one of the first and second display panels, the alignment film including first polysiloxanes and second polysiloxanes disposed on the first polysiloxanes, wherein a first portion of silicon atoms of the second polysiloxanes are bonded to vertical functional groups interacting with liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer, and to first pre-tilting functional groups aligning the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer to be tilted with respect to at least one of the first and second display panels by being cross-linked. The bonding structure of the first and the second polysiloxanes being different.

Liquid crystal display device, alignment film, and methods for manufacturing the same

In a display apparatus having a plurality of pixel parts, each pixel part receives a data signal in response to a present gate signal and charges first and second pixel voltages having the same voltage level. A plurality of voltage controllers includes a level-down part to lower a voltage level of the second pixel voltage using a previous pixel voltage charged in a previous frame in response to a next gate signal and a level-up part to receive the lowered second pixel voltage in response to the next gate signal to boost up a voltage level of the first pixel voltage.

Display apparatus and method of driving the same

A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display ('LCD') includes; disposing a gate line including a gate electrode on a substrate, disposing a gate insulating layer on the gate line, disposing a data layer including a data line, source electrode and a drain electrode facing the source electrode on the gate insulating layer, disposing a color filter on the gate insulating layer, disposing an overcoat layer on the color filter, disposing a planarization layer on a portion of the overcoat layer corresponding to the gate line, the data line and the drain electrode, and disposing a pixel electrode in contacted with the overcoat layer in a region corresponding to the color filter.

Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same

A display substrate includes a base substrate and a unitary indivisible pixel electrode. The base substrate includes a gate line, a data line crossing the gate line and a thin-film transistor electrically connected to the gate line and the data line formed thereon. A pixel area is defined on the base substrate. The unitary indivisible pixel electrode includes a plurality of branch electrodes formed on the pixel area and a connection electrode connecting the branch electrodes to each other. Each of the branch electrodes includes a bent portion and the bent portions of adjacent branch electrodes are spaced apart from each other.

Display substrate having pixel electrode with branch electrode including bent portion, display device having the same and method of manufacturing the display substrate

In a thin film transistor, first and second thin film transistors are connected to an Ngate line and an Mdata line, and first and second sub pixel electrodes are connected to the first and second thin film transistors, respectively. A third thin film transistor includes a gate electrode connected to an (N+1)gate line, a semiconductor layer overlapping with the gate electrode, a source electrode connected to the second sub pixel electrode and partially overlapping with the gate electrode, and a drain electrode facing the source electrode. A first auxiliary electrode is connected to the drain electrode and arranged on the same layer as the first and second sub pixel electrodes. An opposite electrode is arranged on the same layer as the gate line and at least partially overlaps with the first auxiliary electrode with at least one insulating layer disposed therebetween.

Thin film transistor substrate, liquid crystal display having the same, and method of manufacturing the same

A display device including a first gate line and a second gate line that extend in parallel with each other, a data line crossing the first and second gate lines to form a pixel region, a pixel electrode in the pixel region and including a main pixel electrode and a sub pixel electrode, which are connected to the first gate line and the data line, a control thin film transistor connected to the second gate line and the sub pixel electrode, and a gate driver. The gate driver outputs a first gate signal to the first gate line and a second gate signal to the second gate line. The first gate signal activates the first gate line during a first time and a second time following the first time, and the second gate signal activates the second gate line during the first time but not the second time.

Display device and control method of the same

A method of fine patterning a thin film and a method of manufacturing a display substrate by using the same, in which a fine photo pattern is formed on a base substrate, and a photoresist pattern is formed on the thin film. A fine photo pattern is formed by ashing the photoresist pattern. A fine pattern is formed by removing the thin film exposing through the fine photo pattern. A fine pattern is formed, and the fine pattern has a higher resolution than that of an exposure apparatus. The reliability of a process for manufacturing a display substrate and the display quality of a display device may be improved.

Method of fine patterning a thin film and method of manufacturing a display substrate using the method

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