| abstract |
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that includes a horizontal alignment film, stabilizes liquid crystal alignment by the PSA technique, can suppress the increase in power consumption, reduction in contrast, and image sticking in display, and has long-term reliability. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, a horizontal alignment film formed on at least one of the pair of substrates, and a polymer layer which is formed on the horizontal alignment film and controls the alignment of adjacent liquid crystal molecules, wherein the polymer layer is formed by the polymerization of at least one or more kinds of monomers added into the liquid crystal layer, and at least one of the one or more kinds of monomers is polymerized by itself functioning as a polymerization initiator by being irradiated with light. |