Display assembly having flexible transistors on a flexible substrate
First Claim
1. A portable electronic device comprising,a housing to house a portion of one or more components of said portable electronic device;
- and a display assembly coupled to a flexible backplane assembly for displaying content to a user of the portable electronic device, the flexible backplane assembly has formed thereon at least one transistor having at least one layer of amorphous silicon, wherein the flexible backplane assembly including the at least one transistor being capable of flexing in one or more dimensions to change a topography of a surface of the flexible backplane assembly, and wherein a portion of the display assembly forms a portion of the housing.
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Abstract
A thin film transistor array fabricated on a polyimide substrate forms a backplane for an electronic display. The thin film transistor array incorporates gate electrodes, a gate insulating layer, semiconducting channel layers deposited on top of the gate insulating layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a contact layer beneath each of the source and drain electrodes and in contact with at least the channel layer. An insulating encapsulation layer is positioned on the channel layer. The layers are deposited onto the polyimide substrate using PECVD and etched using photolithography to form the backplane.
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49 Claims
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1. A portable electronic device comprising,
a housing to house a portion of one or more components of said portable electronic device; - and
a display assembly coupled to a flexible backplane assembly for displaying content to a user of the portable electronic device, the flexible backplane assembly has formed thereon at least one transistor having at least one layer of amorphous silicon, wherein the flexible backplane assembly including the at least one transistor being capable of flexing in one or more dimensions to change a topography of a surface of the flexible backplane assembly, and wherein a portion of the display assembly forms a portion of the housing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A flexible electronic display having a plurality of pixels, the flexible electronic display comprising,
a flexible display medium for displaying indicia to an operator, the flexible display medium having a first surface adjacent to a transparent reference electrode layer and a second surface adjacent to at least one thin film transistor having at least one layer of amorphous silicon, the indicia providing the operator with indications of a state of a monitored process; - and
wherein the at least one thin film transistor being formed on a substrate capable of flexing in a plurality of dimensions, the at least one thin film transistor, the transparent reference electrode layer, and the flexible display medium flex to adapt to one or more contours of a surface of an instrument panel at least during mounting of said flexible electronic display thereto. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A display device for displaying content to a user, said display device comprising,
a matrix of transistors formed on a flexible substrate, the flexible substrate capable of flexing in one or more dimensions with the transistors formed thereon to adapt to a desired contour, and a plurality of pixels coupled to the matrix of transistors, each of the plurality of pixels being addressable by the matrix of transistors to transfer a charge from a selected one of the matrix of transistors to one of the plurality of pixels to display a portion of the content to the user.
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