Display device, module, and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12436431-B2
Application number	US-202318211623-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2023
Priority date	Mar 15, 2016
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

A high-definition liquid crystal display device is provided. A liquid crystal display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal display device with a high contrast ratio and display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device capable of being driven at a low voltage is provided. The display device includes, between a pair of substrates, a pixel electrode, a first common electrode, a second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode and the first common electrode are positioned between the liquid crystal layer and one of the substrates. The second common electrode is positioned between the liquid crystal layer and the other substrate. The same potential is supplied to the first common electrode and the second common electrode. The first common electrode includes a portion overlapping with the second common electrode between the display regions of two adjacent subpixels that exhibit different colors. At least one of the pixel electrode and the first common electrode includes a portion that does not overlap with the second common electrode in the display region of the subpixel.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising a first pixel and a second pixel,
wherein the liquid crystal display device comprises a first common electrode, a second common electrode, an auxiliary wiring, a light-blocking layer, and a liquid crystal layer,
wherein the first pixel comprises a first transistor and a first pixel electrode,
wherein the second pixel comprises a second transistor and a second pixel electrode,
wherein the first common electrode, the auxiliary wiring, the first transistor, and the second transistor are provided over a first substrate,
wherein, in a cross-sectional view of the liquid crystal display device, the first common electrode is positioned between the first transistor and the liquid crystal layer,
wherein in a top view of the liquid crystal display device, the first common electrode overlaps with the first pixel and the second pixel,
wherein in a top view of the liquid crystal display device, the first common electrode comprises a first opening and a second opening,
wherein in a top view of the liquid crystal display device, the first opening comprises a first region which the first transistor is in contact with the first pixel electrode,
wherein in a top view of the liquid crystal display device, the second opening comprises a second region which the second transistor is in contact with the second pixel electrode,
wherein the first common electrode is in contact with the auxiliary wiring at a third region,
wherein the second common electrode overlaps with the first common electrode, the first pixel electrode, and the second pixel electrode,
wherein the second common electrode includes a third opening,
wherein, in a cross-sectional view of the liquid crystal display device, the third opening overlaps with a region which is not provided with the first pixel electrode, and
wherein the third region overlaps with the light-blocking layer.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the resistivity of the auxiliary wiring is lower than the resistivity of the first common electrode.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the liquid crystal display device comprises a driver circuit portion, and
wherein in a top view of the liquid crystal display device, the third region is positioned near the driver circuit portion.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Yoshitomi Shuhei
• Kubota Daisuke
• Kusunoki Koji

Classifications

• G06F1/3265

  Power saving in display device · CPC title

• G02F2201/123

  pixel · CPC title

• G02F2201/121

  common or background · CPC title

• G02F1/1368

  in which the switching element is a three-electrode device {(G02F1/136277 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G02F1/136286

  Wiring, e.g. gate line, drain line · CPC title