Provided is a pixel structure. The pixel structure includes: a first electrode, a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer that are disposed on one side of a substrate and successively stacked, wherein one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a pixel electrode and the other of the first electrode and the second electrode is a common electrode, and the second electrode includes a plurality of electrode branches sequentially arranged in a first direction, wherein each of the electrode branches includes a first end portion, a body portion, and a second end portion that are successively connected in a second direction, the body portion including at least one body segment.

A thin film transistor array substrate includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of common electrodes, and a common electrode layer. The insulating substrate defines a plurality of sub-pixel area arranged into a sub-pixel array including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The plurality of data lines extend in a direction of the columns in the sub-pixel array. The plurality of common electrodes extend in the direction of the columns in the sub-pixel array. At least two of the plurality of data lines are between adjacent common electrodes of the plurality of common electrodes, and the plurality of common electrodes are applied with a same voltage. The common electrode layer is on the insulating substrate and the common electrodes are connected to different locations of the common electrode layer.

An array substrate is provided. One of a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer in the array substrate includes at least one slit electrode. The slit electrode is disposed between two adjacent data leads in the array substrate, and includes an electrode connecting portion and a plurality of first strip-shaped sub-electrodes. The electrode connecting portion includes a first connecting section parallel to and adjacent to the data lead, and a distance between two adjacent first strip-shaped sub-electrodes in a direction parallel to an extending direction of the first connecting section gradually increases along a direction going away from the first connecting section.

The present disclosure relates to a display device. A display device according to an embodiment of the present inventive concept includes gate lines extending along a first direction, data lines extending along a second direction, pixels including pixel electrodes, each of the pixels including a transistor connected to a gate line and a data line, and a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, the pixels including a first pixel which includes a first pixel electrode connected to a first data line and is disposed in n.sup.th pixel row and m.sup.th pixel column, and a second pixel which includes a second pixel electrode connected to the first data line or a second data line disposed adjacent to the first data line and is disposed in (n+1).sup.th pixel row and the m.sup.th pixel column. The first data line does not overlap the first pixel electrode and overlaps the second pixel electrode.

Provided are an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The array substrate comprises a plurality of data lines and sub-pixels. At least one sub-pixel comprises: a first insulating layer; a gate; an active layer located on one side of the first insulating layer away from the gate; a pixel electrode; a first electrode located connected to the active layer and in contact with the pixel electrode; a second electrode connected to the active layer and a data line; a second insulating layer having a first opening, wherein the orthographic projection of the first opening partially overlaps with the orthographic projections of the pixel electrode and the first electrode; a connection electrode in contact with the pixel electrode and the first electrode through the first opening; and a common electrode located on one side of the second insulating layer away from the pixel electrode.

The present invention provides a dimming panel sequentially including: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the first substrate sequentially including an insulating substrate, a first electrode, a first insulator layer, and a second electrode, the second electrode including, in a plan view, linear electrodes parallel to each other with slit regions in between, and bridge electrodes each of which is disposed in one of the slit regions and is connecting two adjacent linear electrodes, the bridge electrodes including a first bridge electrode in a first slit region, a second bridge electrode in a second slit region adjacent to the first slit region, and a third bridge electrode in a third slit region adjacent to the second slit region, the first bridge electrode, the second bridge electrode, and the third bridge electrode being discrete from one another.

It is an object of the present invention to apply a sufficient electrical field to a liquid crystal material in a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display device typified by an FFS type. In a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display, an electrical field is applied to a liquid crystal material right above a common electrode and a pixel electrode using plural pairs of electrodes rather than one pair of electrodes. One pair of electrodes includes a comb-shaped common electrode and a comb-shaped pixel electrode. Another pair of electrodes includes a common electrode provided in a pixel portion and the comb-shaped pixel electrode.

To provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device which have a wide viewing angle and in which the number of manufacturing steps, the number of masks, and manufacturing cost are reduced compared with a conventional one. The liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode formed over an entire surface of one side of a substrate; a first insulating film formed over the first electrode; a thin film transistor formed over the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; a second electrode formed over the second insulating film and having a plurality of openings; and a liquid crystal over the second electrode. The liquid crystal is controlled by an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode.

A liquid crystal display apparatus that controls liquid crystals with a pixel structure having a red pixel, a green pixel, a blue pixel, and a white pixel as a basic unit. Voltage-transmittance characteristics of the liquid crystals corresponding to the white pixel are different from voltage-transmittance characteristics of the liquid crystals corresponding to each of the red pixel, the green pixel, and the blue pixel.

The invention relates to a light modulation element comprising a cholesteric liquid crystalline medium sandwiched between two substrates (1), provided with a common electrode structure (2) and a driving electrode structure (3) individually, wherein the substrate with driving and/or common electrode structure is additionally provided with an alignment electrode structure (4) which is separated from the driving and or common electrode structure on the same substrate by a dielectric layer (5), characterized in that it comprises at least one alignment layer (6) directly adjacent to the liquid crystalline medium. The invention is further related to a method of production of said light modulation element and to the use of said light modulation element in various types of optical and electro-optical devices, such as electro-optical displays, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), non-linear optic (NLO) devices, and optical information storage devices.