Liquid crystal display device comprising a transparent pixel electrode and counter electrode and an insular transparent electrode disposed between an organic insulating film and a common wiring
To form a sufficiently large storage capacitor, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal held between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal display panel having multiple pixels arranged in matrix. The first substrate has, in a transmissive display area provided in each of the pixels, a laminated structure containing a first transparent electrode, a first insulating film, a second transparent electrode, a second insulating film, and a third transparent electrode which are laminated in this order. The first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a first storage capacitor through the first insulating film, and the second transparent electrode and the third transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a second storage capacitor through the second insulating film.
1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
a TFT substrate including:
an insulating substrate;
a thin film transistor having a gate electrode, source electrode, and a drain electrode;
an organic insulating film covering the thin film transistor;
a transparent pixel electrode connected to the source electrode;
a first inorganic insulating film covering the transparent pixel electrode;
a transparent counter electrode having a slit; and
a common wiring connected to the transparent counter electrode, wherein the thin film transistor is between the insulating substrate and the organic insulating film,
the transparent pixel electrode is between the organic insulating film and the first inorganic insulating film,
the first inorganic insulating film is between the transparent pixel electrode and the transparent counter electrode,
the common wiring is between the organic insulating film and the transparent counter electrode,
the transparent counter electrode contacts to the common wiring in a contact hole,
the contact hole is formed in the first inorganic insulating film,
the TFT substrate further includes an insular transparent electrode, the insular transparent electrode is between the organic insulating film and the common wiring,
the insular transparent electrode contacts with the common wiring, and
the insular transparent electrode overlaps the contact hole.
2. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , wherein
the insular transparent electrode is separated from the transparent pixel electrode, and
the first inorganic insulating film has a first surface, which is a surface contacted with the transparent pixel electrode and the insular transparent electrode.
3. The liquid crystal display device of claim 2 , wherein
the TFT substrate further includes a second inorganic insulating film between the organic insulating film and the first inorganic insulating film, and
the insular transparent electrode and the transparent pixel electrode are between the first inorganic insulating film and the second inorganic insulating film.
4. The liquid crystal display device of claim 3 , wherein
the second inorganic insulating film has a hole, the hole of the second inorganic insulating film overlaps the contact hole of the first inorganic insulating film, and
the insular transparent electrode, the common wiring, and the transparent counter electrode is laminated in this order.