DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20170025441A1
• Filed: 04/06/2015
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: MORI, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,691,797 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136204 Arrangements to prevent high voltage or static electricity failures
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136286 Wiring, e.g. gate line, drain line
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1368 in which the switching element is a three-electrode device G02F1/136277 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/28 Manufacture of electrodes on semiconductor bodies using processes or apparatus not provided for in groups H01L21/20 - H01L21/268 etching for patterning the electrodes H01L21/311, H01L21/3213; multistep manufacturing processes for data storage electrodes H01L29/4011
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/5223 Capacitor integral with wiring layers
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/0255 using diodes as protective elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/0266 using field effect transistors as protective elements
• 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 29/786 Thin film transistors, i.e. transistors with a channel being at least partly a thin film transistors having only the source or the drain region on an insulator layer H01L29/0653; thin film FinFETs H01L29/785
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/00 Organic light-emitting devices integrated devices or assemblies of multiple devices H10K59/00, H10K65/00; organic semiconductor lasers H01S5/36
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/12 Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/131 Interconnections, e.g. wiring lines or terminals

Abstract

A display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of scanning lines (10a) and a plurality of signal lines (11a); a plurality of pixel thin-film transistors; a common scanning interconnect (10b); and a plurality of protective diodes (6) (protective elements). At least a part of a plurality of connecting interconnects that electrically connect the common scanning interconnect with the plurality of protective diodes are constituted by connecting interconnects (11e) on the same layer as the signal lines. The surface area of overlapping parts between a plurality of semiconductor layers of thin-film transistors and the scanning lines and the surface area overlapping parts between the plurality of semiconductor layers and the common scanning interconnect are substantially equal.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines that mutually intersect;

a plurality of pixel circuit thin-film transistors provided at a plurality of pixels partitioned by the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of signal lines;

a common scanning interconnect that electrically connects between the plurality of scanning lines; and

a plurality of protective elements that electrically connect between the common scanning interconnect and each of the plurality of scanning lines,

wherein at least a part of the plurality of connecting interconnects that electrically connect the common scanning interconnect with the plurality of protective elements are constituted by interconnects on the same layer as the signal lines,

a plurality of pixel circuit semiconductor layers constituting the plurality of pixel circuit thin-film transistors and each of the plurality of scanning lines overlap when seen in plan view,

a plurality of semiconductor layers on the same layer as the pixel circuit semiconductor layers and a common interconnect that intersects with the plurality of scanning lines overlap when seen in plan view, and

the surface area of overlapping parts between the plurality of pixel circuit semiconductor layers and at least one of the plurality of scanning lines and the surface area overlapping parts between the plurality of semiconductor layers and the common interconnect are substantially equal.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the common interconnect is the common scanning interconnect.

3. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein a part of the connecting interconnects of the plurality of connecting interconnects are constituted by interconnects on the same layer as the signal lines,

the remaining connecting interconnects of the plurality of connecting interconnects are constituted by interconnects formed as one with the common scanning interconnect,

the plurality of semiconductor layers are a plurality of first semiconductor layers constituting the plurality of protective elements, and

the surface area of overlapping parts between the plurality of pixel circuit semiconductor layers and at least one of the plurality of scanning lines and the surface area overlapping parts between the plurality of first semiconductor layers and the common scanning interconnect are substantially equal.

4. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein the plurality of semiconductor layers are a plurality of second semiconductor layers on the same layer as the pixel circuit semiconductor layers and the protective element first semiconductor layers,

all of the plurality of connecting interconnects are constituted by interconnects on the same layer as the signal lines,

and further comprising relay interconnects on the same layer as the signal lines,

wherein at least a part of the second semiconductor layers and at least a part of the relay interconnects overlap with the common scanning interconnect when seen in plan view,

the surface area of the overlapping parts between the plurality of pixel circuit semiconductor layers and at least one of the plurality of scanning lines and the surface of the overlapping parts between the plurality of second semiconductor layers and the common scanning interconnect are substantially equal, and

the common scanning interconnect and at least one of the second semiconductor layers are electrically connected via at least one of the relay interconnects.

5. The display device according to claim 4,

wherein a first edge part of the second semiconductor layer overlaps with the common scanning interconnect when seen in plan view, and

a second edge part of the second semiconductor layer extends outward toward one side in the width direction of the common scanning interconnect.

6. The display device according to claim 4,

wherein a center part of the second semiconductor layer overlaps with the common scanning interconnect when seen in plan view, and

both edge parts of the second semiconductor layer extend outward from both sides of the common scanning interconnect in the width direction thereof.

7. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a supplementary capacitance line constituting a supplementary capacitance,

wherein the common interconnect is the supplementary capacitance line.

8. The display device according to claim 7,

wherein the plurality of semiconductor layers are a plurality of second semiconductor layers on the same layer as the pixel circuit semiconductor layers and the protective element first semiconductor layers,

all of the plurality of connecting interconnects are constituted by interconnects on the same layer as the signal lines,

and further comprising relay interconnects on the same layer as the signal lines,

wherein at least a part of the second semiconductor layers and at least a part of the relay interconnects overlap with the supplementary capacitance line when seen in plan view,

the surface area of the overlapping parts between the plurality of pixel circuit semiconductor layers and at least one of the plurality of scanning lines and the surface of the overlapping parts between the plurality of second semiconductor layers and the supplementary capacitance line are substantially equal, and

the supplementary capacitance line and at least one of the second semiconductor layers are electrically connected via at least one of the relay interconnects.

9. The display device according to claim 8,

wherein one of the second semiconductor layers is provided with respect to each pixel column,

a first edge part of the second semiconductor layer overlaps with the supplementary capacitance line when seen in plan view, and

a second edge part of the second semiconductor layer extends outward toward one side in the width direction of the supplementary capacitance line.

10. The display device according to claim 8,

wherein two of the second semiconductor layers are provided with respect to each pixel column,

a first edge part of each of the two second semiconductor layers overlaps with the supplementary capacitance line when seen in plan view, and

a second edge part of each of the two second semiconductor layers extends outward from both sides of the supplementary capacitance line in the width direction thereof.