A gate wire including a gate line and a gate electrode is formed on an
insulating substrate of a TFT array panel. A semiconductor pattern made
of amorphous silicon is formed on the gate insulating layer covering the
gate wire. A data wire including a data line, a source electrode, and a
drain electrode is formed on the semiconductor pattern or the gate
insulating layer covering the gate wire. A part of the semiconductor
pattern extends under the data line, and a light blocking member
overlapping the semiconductor pattern under the data line is formed using
the same layer as the gate wire. The light blocking member is to prevent
light incident upon the substrate from a backlight from entering the
amorphous silicon layers; therefore, the stripes of different brightness
and waterfall phenomenon in which the stripes move up and down can be
removed in an LCD using a backlight driven by a rectangular wave of
ON/OFF signals outputted from inverter.