Liquid crystal display device
View Patent ↗There is provided a liquid crystal display device that a high quality image with suppressed display unevenness can be obtained. A liquid crystal display device includes a first metal electrode, a black matrix disposed at regular spacings, and a liquid crystal. The first metal electrode is disposed to overlap the black matrix when seen perpendicularly from above, and a second metal electrode is disposed at a place at which the first metal is not disposed at a position at which the second metal electrode overlaps the black matrix between different color sub pixels.
1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
a first substrate;
a second substrate; and
a liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate,
the first substrate having a display area where subpixels are formed,
each of the subpixels comprising:
a thin film transistor,
a planarization film covering the thin film transistor,
a common electrode on the planarization film,
an interlayer insulating film on the common electrode,
a pixel electrode, formed on the interlayer insulating film, connects with a drain of the thin film transistor, and
a first metal electrode, extending in a first direction, is directly formed on the common electrode at the boundary of a pair of the subpixels,
the first metal electrode is not formed on the common electrode at the boundary of another pair of the subpixels,
the second substrate having color filters and a black matrix, the black matrix is formed between the color filters,
each of the color filters corresponds to each of the subpixels,
the first metal electrode overlaps with the black matrix in a plan view,
a second metal electrode, extending in a first direction, is formed on the black matrix corresponding to the boundary of another pair of the subpixels in a plan view,
wherein the second metal electrode does not overlap with the first metal electrode in a plan view, and
wherein a width of the first metal electrode in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction, is defined as x; a width of the second metal electrode in the second direction is defined as y; a distance between the pixel electrode and the second metal electrode in the second direction in a plan view is defined as z; a distance between the first electrode and the second metal electrode in a third direction, which is perpendicular to both of the first direction and the second direction, is defined as d;
wherein a following relation is satisfied:
if x>d, d/ 2< y/ 2< y/ 2+ z
if x<d, x/ 2< y/ 2< y/ 2+ z.
2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second metal electrode affects asymmetry in a distribution of an electric potential at the boundary of another pair of the subpixels.
3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first metal electrode and the second metal electrode are set to have a same potential.
4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein a columnar spacer that defines a distance between the first substrate and the second substrate is formed on the second metal electrode on the second substrate side.
5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein: the liquid crystal display device has a built-in touch sensor; and
the common electrode also serves as an interconnection of the touch sensor.