Liquid crystal display device

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

gate and data lines on a first substrate, wherein the gate lines cross the data lines to define sub-pixels;

thin film transistors adjacent to where the gate lines cross the data lines;

pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors;

common electrodes at left and right sides of the sub-pixels, wherein a first parasitic capacitance between a first data line arranged at the left side of a first sub-pixel and an adjacent first common electrode is smaller than a second parasitic capacitance between a second data line arranged at the right side of the first sub-pixel and an adjacent second common electrode; and

a second substrate bonded to the first substrate with a layer of liquid crystal molecules therebetween,

wherein both of the common and pixel electrodes have a straight shape, a first distance between the first data line and the first common electrode is greater than a second distance between the second data line and the second common electrode, and a first width of the first common electrode is different from a second width of the second common electrode.

2. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pixel electrodes and the common electrodes are alternately arranged in parallel.

3. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the liquid crystal layer is driven in an in-plane switching (IPS) mode by an horizontal electric field between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.

4. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the common electrodes are formed in the same layer as the pixel electrodes.

5. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first width of the first common electrode arranged at the left side of the sub-pixel is smaller than the second width of a second common electrode arranged at the right side of the sub-pixel.

6. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second substrate includes a red color filter layer, a green color filter layer, and a blue color filter layer, which are formed in each pixel.

7. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the red, green and blue color filter layers are arranged in the order of red, green and blue.

8. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising insulating layers between the data lines and the common electrodes.

9. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the common lines are formed in the same layer as the gate lines.

10. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the common electrodes are connected to common lines.

11. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

gate and data lines on a first substrate to define sub-pixels;

thin film transistors adjacent to where the gate lines cross the data lines;

pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors;

common electrodes at left and right sides of the sub-pixels, wherein a first parasitic capacitance between a first data line arranged at the left side of a first sub-pixel and an adjacent first common electrode is different from a second parasitic capacitance between a second data line arranged at the right side of the first sub-pixel and an adjacent second common electrode; and

a second substrate bonded to the first substrate with a layer of liquid crystal molecules There between,

wherein both of the common and pixel electrodes have a straight shape, a first distance between the first data line and the first common electrode is different from a second distance between the second data line and the second common electrode, and an width of the first common electrode is different from an width of the second common electrode.

12. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the pixel electrodes and the common electrodes are alternately arranged in parallel.