A transistor display panel including: a driving voltage line and a first electrode disposed on a substrate; a semiconductor overlapping the first electrode; and an electrode layer overlapping the semiconductor, the electrode layer including a drain electrode, a gate electrode, and a source electrode. The first electrode and the semiconductor are connected through the source electrode.

[Summary] [Problem] A TFT is manufactured using at least five photomasks in a conventional liquid crystal display device, and therefore the manufacturing cost is high. [Solving Means] By performing the formation of the pixel electrode 127, the source region 123 and the drain region 124 by using three photomasks in three photolithography steps, a liquid crystal display device prepared with a pixel TFT portion, having a reverse stagger type n-channel TFT, and a storage capacitor can be realized.

A display device includes a switching element having a pixel connection portion, a first insulating film having a first pixel contact hole formed therein so as to be in a place overlapping at least a part of the pixel connection portion, a common line, an intermediate electrode composed of the same conducting film as the common line, disposed to overlap the first pixel contact hole, and connected to the pixel connection portion, a common electrode not connected to the intermediate electrode but connected to the common line, a second insulating film having a second pixel contact hole formed therein so as to be in a place overlapping at least a part of the intermediate electrode, and a pixel electrode disposed so that at least a part of the pixel electrode overlaps the second pixel contact hole.

An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a base substrate, and a gate line and a common electrode provided in the same layer, a gate insulation layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode provided in the same layer; and a pixel electrode provided in the same layer as the active layer, sequentially arranged on the base substrate.

A display device includes: a substrate including first and second light-blocking areas, and a pixel area; a light-blocking pattern at least partially at the first light-blocking area; a data line at the second light-blocking area; a first insulating layer on the light-blocking pattern and the data line; a semiconductor layer on the first insulating layer and overlapping the light-blocking pattern on a plane; a second insulating layer on the semiconductor layer; a color filter on the second insulating layer at least partially at the pixel area; a third insulating layer on the second insulating layer and the color filter; a gate line on the third insulating layer at the first light-blocking area; a pixel electrode at least partially at the pixel area; and a bridge electrode at least partially at the first light-blocking area. The second and third insulating layers directly contact one another over the semiconductor layer.

A display device and a method of fabricating the display device may simplify a fabrication process and reduce fabrication cost. The display device includes: a substrate; a gate line and a data line on the substrate; a switching element connected to the gate line and the data line, the switching element including a source electrode and a drain electrode; and a first pixel electrode connected to the switching element. At least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode of the switching element includes substantially a same material as a material included in the first pixel electrode.

An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate including a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; and a light-leakage protection film layer formed on the base substrate. The light-leakage protection film layer is arranged at the peripheral region and includes at least one first film layer, a light transmittance of each first film layer is smaller than or equal to a first threshold, and reflectivity of the first film layer is smaller than or equal to a second threshold.

Disclosed are an LCD device and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a passivation layer and a pixel electrode are simultaneously formed by a single mask process using a half tone mask, and thus, manufacturing efficiency increases, and a defective contact due to loss of the pixel electrode can be prevented in a pad area. The LCD device includes a pad part including a pad area and a contact area. The LCD device includes a pixel pad formed in the pad area, a pixel bar formed in the contact area, and a bridge layer contacting the pixel pad with the pixel bar. The bridge layer is formed as a single layer or multi layers, and formed of one or more of a transparent conductive material and an opaque conductive material.

A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate; a first gate line which extends in a first direction; first and second data lines which extend in a second direction different from the first direction and are adjacent to each other; a first pixel which includes a first display area in which a first pixel electrode connected to the first data line is disposed, and a first circuit area in which a first gate electrode connected to the first gate line is disposed; a second pixel which includes a second display area in which a second pixel electrode connected to the second data line is disposed, and a second circuit area in which a second gate electrode connected to the second gate line is disposed; and an opaque conductive pattern which extends in the first direction so as to overlap the first circuit area and the second circuit area.

A display device includes a display element including a first electrode, a protective layer arranged on the first electrode, a second electrode arranged on the protective layer at a pixel area and contacting a thin film transistor. A sensing line is arranged on the protective layer and contacts the first electrode through a contact hole exposing the first electrode through the third protective layer. The sensing line comprises a first conductive layer arranged on the protective layer and contacting the second electrode through the contact hole, and a second conductive layer arranged on the first conductive layer.