Organic Light Emitting Diode Display Device and Method of Fabricating the Same

• US 20160204180A1
• Filed: 03/22/2016
• Published: 07/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: JEONG, Ho-Young, LEE, Young-Jang
• Granted Patent: US 9,941,169 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2021/775 comprising a plurality of TFTs on a non-semiconducting substrate, e.g. driving circuits for AMLCDs
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/28008 Making conductor-insulator-semiconductor electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/82 to produce devices, e.g. integrated circuits, each consisting of a plurality of components
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1225 with semiconductor materials not belonging to the group IV of the periodic table, e.g. InGaZnO
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/124 with a particular composition, shape or layout of the wiring layers specially adapted to the circuit arrangement, e.g. scanning lines in LCD pixel circuits wiring structures per se H01L23/52
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1255 integrated with passive devices, e.g. auxiliary capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/1259 Multistep manufacturing methods
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/7869 having a semiconductor body comprising an oxide semiconductor material, e.g. zinc oxide, copper aluminium oxide, cadmium stannate
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/00 Integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, comprising at least one organic light-emitting element covered by group H10K50/00
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/10 OLED displays
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/12 Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/1201 Manufacture or treatment
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/1216 the pixel elements being capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/126 Shielding, e.g. light-blocking means over the TFTs

Abstract

An organic light emitting diode display device comprises a driving thin film transistor including a first semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer formed on the first semiconductor layer. The device further includes a storage capacitor including a first capacitor electrode electrically coupled to a drain electrode of the driving thin film transistor, a buffer layer formed on the first capacitor electrode, a second semiconductor layer formed on the buffer layer, and a second capacitor electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer and electrically coupled to a gate electrode of the driving thin film transistor. The device also includes an organic light emitting diode connected to the drain electrode of the driving transistor. The gate insulating layer has at least one hole in a region where the gate insulating layer overlaps the second semiconductor layer, thereby exposing the second semiconductor layer to the second capacitor electrode.

Claims

1. A method of fabricating an organic light emitting diode display device, comprising:

forming a first capacitor electrode over a substrate;

forming a buffer layer over the first capacitor electrode;

forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer over the buffer layer;

forming a gate insulating layer over the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer;

forming at least one hole in the gate insulating layer in a region where the gate insulating layer overlaps the second semiconductor layer by patterning the gate insulating layer, the hole exposing the second semiconductor layer through the gate insulating layer;

forming a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer and forming a second capacitor electrode on the second semiconductor layer in the hole of the gate insulating layer, the second capacitor electrode being electrically coupled to the gate electrode;

forming an inter insulating layer over the gate electrode and the second capacitor electrode;

forming source and drain electrodes over the inter insulating layer, the drain electrode being electrically coupled to the first capacitor electrode;

forming a passivation layer over the source and drain electrodes; and

sequentially forming a first OLED electrode, an organic light emitting layer and a second OLED electrode over the passivation layer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein forming the source and drain electrodes includes forming a third capacitor electrode electrically to the drain electrode and disposed over the inter insulating layer and the second capacitor electrode prior to forming of the passivation layer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein forming the first capacitor electrode includes forming a light-blocking layer disposed under the first semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the gate electrode.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein forming the second capacitor electrode includes forming a connection pattern between the drain electrode and the first capacitor electrode.