DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20170162637A1
• Filed: 07/22/2016
• Published: 06/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kang, Kinyeng, Choi, Jonghyun, Kim, Sunkwang, Yoon, Joosun
• Granted Patent: US 10,304,913 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G04C 17/0091 Combined electro-optical and electro-mechanical displays see provisionally also G04G9/0082
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0426 Layout of electrodes and connections
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0439 Pixel structures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0465 Improved aperture ratio, e.g. by size reduction of the pixel circuit, e.g. for improving the pixel density or the maximum displayable luminance or brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0209 Crosstalk reduction, i.e. to reduce direct or indirect influences of signals directed to a certain pixel of the displayed image on other pixels of said image, inclusive of influences affecting pixels in different frames or fields or sub-images which constitute a same image, e.g. left and right images of a stereoscopic display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0223 Compensation for problems related to R-C delay and attenuation in electrodes of matrix panels, e.g. in gate electrodes or on-substrate video signal electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3225 using an active matrix
• 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: H10K 50/84 Passivation; Containers; Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/844 Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/122 Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/131 Interconnections, e.g. wiring lines or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/8731 multilayered coatings having a repetitive structure, e.g. having multiple organic-inorganic bilayers

Abstract

A display device includes a substrate including a first surface, and a second surface opposite the first surface, and defining a through portion passing therethrough, a pixel array including a plurality of pixels surrounding the through portion at the first surface, a plurality of scan lines extending along a first direction for providing scan signals to the pixels, and a plurality of data lines extending along a second direction crossing the first direction for providing data signals to the pixels, the plurality of data lines including first and second data lines adjacent the through portion at different layers, and having at least a portion thereof curved along a perimeter of the through portion.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a substrate comprising a first surface, and a second surface opposite the first surface, and defining a through portion passing therethrough;

a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels surrounding the through portion at the first surface;

a plurality of scan lines extending along a first direction for providing scan signals to the pixels; and

a plurality of data lines extending along a second direction crossing the first direction for providing data signals to the pixels, the plurality of data lines comprising first and second data lines adjacent the through portion at different layers, and having at least a portion thereof curved along a perimeter of the through portion.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the first data line does not overlap the second data line.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises:

a display area corresponding to the pixels; and

a non-display area adjacent the display area.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the non-display area comprises:

a first non-display area surrounded by the display area, and surrounding the through portion; and

a second non-display area surrounding the display area.

5. The device of claim 3, wherein one of the first and second data lines is connected with a connection data line, the connection data line includes a same material as an other of the first and second data line is located.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second data lines comprises:

a first straight line portion extending along the second direction;

a curved portion connected with the first straight line portion; and

a second straight line portion connected with the curved portion, and extending along the second direction.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the curved portion is integral with the first and second straight lines at a same layer.

8. The device of claim 6, further comprising an insulating layer between the curved portion and the first or second straight line portions,

wherein the curved portion is at a different layer than the first or second straight line portions,

wherein the curved portion and the first straight line portion contact each other via a first contact passing through the insulating layer, and

wherein the curved portion and the second straight line portion contact each other via a second contact passing through the insulating layer.

9. The device of claim 1, further comprising a thin film encapsulation layer comprising an inorganic layer and an organic layer above the substrate.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the thin film encapsulation layer comprises a lateral surface defining the through portion.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the thin film encapsulation layer comprises:

a first inorganic layer;

an organic layer above the first inorganic layer; and

a second inorganic layer above the organic layer.

12. The device of claim 11, further comprising a dam adjacent the through portion at the first surface of the substrate.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the dam is located between an end of the organic layer and the through portion.

14. The device of claim 11, wherein the first inorganic layer and the second inorganic layer contact each other at a contact portion, and extend further toward the through portion than the organic layer.

15. The device of claim 14, further comprising an inorganic insulating layer below the first data line and the second data line, and directly contacting the first inorganic layer adjacent the through portion.

16. The device of claim 14, further comprising an inorganic passivation layer above the first data line and the second data line, and directly contacting the first inorganic layer adjacent the through portion.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein at least one of the first and second data lines overlaps the contact portion.

18. The device of claim 14, further comprising:

a passivation layer comprising an organic-inorganic composite particle above the first and second data lines, and directly contacting the first inorganic layer adjacent the through portion.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein at least one of the first and second data lines overlaps the contact portion.

20. The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of pixels comprises a first pixel and a second pixel arranged along the second direction, spaced from each other with the through portion therebetween, and electrically connected with one of the first and second data lines.

21. The device of claim 20, wherein the plurality of data lines further comprises a third data line including a same material as one of the first and second data lines, and spaced from the through portion along the first direction, and

wherein the plurality of pixels further comprises a third pixel electrically connected with the third data line, and comprising a pixel electrode, an emission layer above the pixel electrode, and an opposite electrode above the emission layer.

22. The device of claim 21, wherein at least one of the first and second data line overlaps the pixel electrode of the third pixel.

23. The device of claim 1, wherein each of the pixels comprises:

a pixel circuit comprising a transistor and a storage capacitor; and

an organic light-emitting diode electrically connected with the pixel circuit.