Liquid crystal display device with adjusted pretilt angles for the liquid crystal molecules and method for manufacturing the display device

摘要

A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display element capable of easily improving response characteristics without using a large apparatus is provided. After alignment films (22 and 32) made of a polymer compound including a crosslinkable functional group as a side chain and a bulky skeleton such as an adamantane skeleton are formed in a TFT substrate (20) and a CF substrate (30), the alignment films (22 and 32) are arranged to face each other, and a liquid crystal layer (40) including liquid crystal molecules (41) is sealed between the alignment films (22 and 32), and then, in a state where the liquid crystal molecules (41) are aligned to allow long-axis directions thereof to be oblique with respect to a substrate surface, the polymer compound in the alignment films (22 and 32) is reacted to form a polymer compound including a cross-linked structure, and predetermined pretilts are provided to liquid crystal molecules (41A and 41B) placed in proximity to the alignment films (22 and 32), respectively.