How are flat screen monitors made?

[Hornbein]

I understand the bit about liquid crystals and polarization of light. The question is how the screen is made. Is it full of a a matrix of tiny wires? How is it made so precisely?

 

[jedishrfu]

Perhaps this graphic will help:

http://animagraffs.com/flat-screen-displays/

 

[meBigGuy]

This tells a little more how the full matrix of electrodes are deposited and etched
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Liquid-Crystal-Display-LCD.html

Essentially every dot is addressable by vertical and horizontal lines.