A liquid crystal display panel is arranged such that a reflection member overlaps a light-shielding wiring pattern such that apertures are left unmasked. This prevents light use efficiency from being decreased due to a light-shielding wiring pattern having memory wiring layers. An array substrate includes a transparent electrode which applies a field to a liquid crystal layer, a light-shielding wiring pattern having one or more apertures which allow transmission of light incident on the liquid crystal layer from the reverse side of the array substrate, and a reflection member which reflects incident light applied from a counter substrate side through the liquid crystal layer.

In a liquid crystal display device having a transmissive display region and a reflective display region within a unit pixel, the present invention disposes an optical reflection layer having an almost rectangular planar shape as extended in the unit pixel elongate direction at substantially a central portion midway between two neighboring signal electrodes, defines almost rectangular regions between the optical reflection layer and two signal electrodes adjacent thereto as the transmissive display region in the unit pixel, and forms a pixel electrode at a level spaced from that of the optical reflection layer by a dielectric film so as to cover the entire surface of the unit pixel, so that power consumption of the liquid crystal display device is reduced while image quality thereof is improved.

An active matrix type display includes supplementary capacity electrodes arranged at every pixel region in which a pixel electrode is formed, and supplementary capacities composed of a first and a second supplementary capacity lines arranged correspondingly to a plurality of the pixel electrodes. The display performs display by applying either of a first video signal voltage having a polarity inverting at every frame period or a second video signal voltage having a polarity inverse to that of the first video signal voltage to the pixel electrodes through switching elements. Thereby, so-called dot inversion driving can be realized through the supplementary capacity lines.

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide an electro-optical device having a sampling circuit including a plurality of thin-film transistors corresponding to respective data lines, the thin-film transistors each including i) a drain connected to a drain line extending from the data line, ii) a source connected to a source line extending from an image-signal line in the extending direction of the data line, and iii) a gate interposed between the drain line and the source line; a data-line driving circuit supplying sampling-circuit driving signals to the gate; and an electromagnetic shield disposed in a space between two adjacent thin-film transistors. This reduces the occurrence of image problems due to parasitic capacitance between the thin-film transistors in the sampling circuit.

An electrooptical device including a semiconductor device which is formed in a semiconductor layer on an insulating layer in such a manner that floating substrate effects which are essential in a SOI structure is suppressed without reducing the aperture ratio. The thickness of a semiconductor layer in pixel areas is limited to a range equal to or less than 100 nm, p-channel transistors having less floating substrate effects are employed as pixel transistors, and recombination centers are produced by means of implantation of Ar ions, thereby avoiding accumulation of excess carriers, thereby realizing an electrooptical device in which floating substrate effects are suppressed without forming a body contact and which has a high aperture ratio and a low optically induced leakage current.