Display Substrate, Fabrication Method Thereof, and Display Panel

• US 20200135816A1
• Filed: 05/21/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Cui, Ying
• Granted Patent: US 10,991,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/824 combined with auxiliary electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/122 Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/80522 combined with auxiliary electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/00 Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/135 using ink-jet printing
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 77/10 Substrates, e.g. flexible substrates
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/549 Organic PV cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

A display substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and a display panel are disclosed. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a pixel defining layer, on the base substrate and configured to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions, each sub-pixel region including a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer; an auxiliary electrode layer, on at least a portion of the pixel defining layer, the auxiliary electrode layer having a hydrophobic surface, and the hydrophobic surface being configured to be in contact with and electrically connected with the second electrode layer.

Claims

1. A display substrate, comprising:

a base substrate;

a pixel defining layer, on the base substrate and configured to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions, each of the plurality of sub-pixel regions comprising a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer; and

an auxiliary electrode layer, on at least a portion of the pixel defining layer, the auxiliary electrode layer having a hydrophobic surface, and the hydrophobic surface being configured to be in contact with and electrically connected with the second electrode layer.

2. The display substrate according to claim 1, wherein the hydrophobic surface is a surface of the auxiliary electrode layer that is away from the pixel defining layer, and the hydrophobic surface comprises a plurality of micro-nano sized structures.

3. The display substrate according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of micro-nano sized structures comprise a plurality of protrusions in micron scale or nanometer scale or a plurality of grooves in micron scale or nanometer scale.

4. The display substrate according to claim 1, wherein the pixel defining layer comprises a plurality of first defining strips arranged in parallel and a plurality of second defining strips arranged in parallel, a plurality of sub-pixel regions of a same color are provided between two adjacent first defining strips of the plurality of first defining strips, a plurality of sub-pixel regions of different colors are provided between two adjacent second defining strips of the plurality of second defining strips, and a height of each of the plurality of first defining strips with respect to the base substrate is greater than a height of each of the plurality of second defining strips with respect to the base substrate.

5. The display substrate according to claim 4, wherein the auxiliary electrode layer comprises an auxiliary electrode strip on each of the plurality of second defining strips, and the auxiliary electrode strip covers an entire top surface of each of the plurality of second defining strips.

6. The display substrate according to claim 5, wherein a sum of thicknesses of each of the plurality of second defining strips and an auxiliary electrode strip thereon is less than a thickness of each of the plurality of first defining strips.

7. The display substrate according to claim 5, wherein the auxiliary electrode layer completely overlaps with the plurality of second defining strips in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate.

8. A display panel, comprising the display substrate according to claim 1.

9. A fabrication method of a display substrate, comprising:

providing a base substrate;

forming a pixel defining layer on the base substrate, the pixel defining layer being configured to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions;

forming a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer in each of the plurality of sub-pixel regions; and

forming an auxiliary electrode layer on at least a portion of the pixel defining layer, the auxiliary electrode layer having a hydrophobic surface, and the hydrophobic surface being configured to be in contact with and electrically connected with the second electrode layer.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the hydrophobic surface is a surface of the auxiliary electrode layer that is away from the pixel defining layer, and the hydrophobic surface comprises a plurality of micro-nano sized structures.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the plurality of micro-nano sized structures comprise a plurality of protrusions or a plurality of grooves on micron scale or nanometer scale.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the forming an auxiliary electrode layer on at least a portion of the pixel defining layer, comprises:

forming a conductive layer on at least a portion of the pixel defining layer, and etching a surface of the conductive layer that is away from the pixel defining layer to obtain the auxiliary electrode layer having the plurality of micro-nano sized structures.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the forming a pixel defining layer on the base substrate comprises:

forming a plurality of first defining strips arranged in parallel on the base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixel regions of a same color being provided between two adjacent first defining strips of the plurality of first defining strips; and

forming a plurality of second defining strips arranged in parallel on the base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixel regions of different colors being provided between two adjacent second defining strips of the plurality of second defining strips;

a height of each of the plurality of first defining strips with respect to the base substrate being greater than a height of each of the plurality of second defining strips with respect to the base substrate.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the forming an auxiliary electrode layer on at least a portion of the pixel defining layer comprises:

forming an auxiliary electrode strip on each of the plurality of second defining strips, the auxiliary electrode strip covering an entire top surface of each of the plurality of second defining strips.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein a sum of thicknesses of each of the second defining strips and an auxiliary electrode strip thereon is less than a thickness of each of the first defining strips.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the auxiliary electrode layer completely overlaps with the plurality of second defining strips in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein after the forming the auxiliary electrode strip and before the forming the second electrode layer, the method further comprises:

forming an organic functional layer by using a solution preparation method on the base substrate on which the auxiliary electrode strip is formed.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the forming an organic functional layer by using a solution preparation method comprises:

forming a solution for preparing the organic functional layer between the two adjacent second defining strips of the plurality of the second defining strips, the solution being configured to circulate in the plurality of sub-pixel regions of a same color located between the two adjacent second defining strips, the auxiliary electrode strip being located below the solution; and

drying the solution to shrink the solution into each sub-pixel region of the plurality of sub-pixel regions of the same color.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the solution preparation method comprises an inkjet printing method.