Method of manufacturing flat panel display device

• US 7,780,493 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2007
• Issued: 08/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Joo, Young-Cheol, Park, Jin-Woo, Choi, Dong-Soo, Shin, Jang-Hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams; Joseph L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coughlin; Andrew J
• Application Number:
  US11/788,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20080171485A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• Field of Search: 445/23, 445/24, 445/25, 313/512, 65/41, 65/43, 651/17
• US Class Current: 445/25
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/841 Self-supporting sealing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/8426 Peripheral sealing arrangements, e.g. adhesives, sealants
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/10 OLED displays
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/00 Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/50 Forming devices by joining two substrates together, e.g. lamination techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/851 Division of substrate

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a flat panel display device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes: i) forming a plurality of light emitting units on a first substrate, each of the plurality of light emitting units including a light emitting element, ii) providing a second substrate, iii) placing glass frits between the first and second substrates, iv) radiating a first laser beam, having a first intensity, on one of the first and second substrates, wherein the first laser is configured to melt the grass frits and combine the first and second substrates and v) radiating a second laser beam, having a second intensity, on the first irradiated region so as to anneal the first or second substrate, wherein the second intensity is different from the first intensity. According to one embodiment, the substrate cutting quality can be simply improved.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a flat panel display device, the method comprising:

forming a plurality of light emitting units on a first substrate, each of the plurality of light emitting units including a light emitting element;

providing a second substrate;

placing glass frits between the first and second substrates;

radiating a first laser beam, having a first intensity, on one of the first and second substrates, so as to melt the glass frits and combine the first and second substrates; and

radiating a second laser beam, having a second intensity, on the area where the first laser beam has been radiated, so as to anneal the first or second substrate, wherein the second intensity is different from the first intensity, and wherein the second laser beam is radiated in a substantially opposite direction to the direction of radiation of the first laser beam.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second intensity is less than the first intensity.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second intensity is from about 70% to about 80% of the first intensity.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the forming of the plurality of light emitting units, m light emitting units are arranged in a first direction, and n light emitting units are arranged in a second direction,

the melting of the glass frits is performed in the first direction, and

the annealing of the first or second substrate is performed in an opposite direction to the first direction.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the forming of the plurality of light emitting units, m light emitting units are arranged in a first direction, and n light emitting units are arranged in a second direction,

the melting of the glass frits is performed by repeatedly radiating the first laser beam in the second direction and then in the first direction, and

the annealing of the first or second substrate is performed by repeatedly radiating the second laser beam in the second direction and then in an opposite direction to the first direction.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the melting of the glass frits and the annealing of the first or second substrate, the first and second laser beams are radiated onto a number of glass fits corresponding to at least two light emitting units at a time.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein, in the forming of the plurality of light emitting units, m light emitting units are arranged in a first direction, and n light emitting units are arranged in a second direction,

the melting of the glass frits is performed by radiating the first laser beam onto a column of light emitting units in the first direction and then onto a next column of light emitting units in the second direction, and

the annealing of the first or second substrate is performed by radiating the second laser beam in a direction opposite to the melting of the glass frits.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising rotating the first and second substrates by about 180°

after the combining of the first and second substrates by way of the first laser beam.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein, in the combining of the first and second substrates and the annealing of the first or second substrate, a laser radiator is moved in the same direction.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first laser beam or the second laser beam is radiated onto at least one of the first and second substrates.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising cutting the first or second substrate so as to separate the light emitting units after the annealing of the first or second substrate.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one light emitting element is an organic light emitting element.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second laser beams are radiated from a single laser device.

14. A flat panel display device manufactured by a method, the method comprising:

providing first and second substrates, wherein a glass fit is formed on one of the substrates;

radiating, during a period of time, a first laser beam which is configured to melt the frit and combine the first and second substrates; and

radiating, after the period of time, a second laser beam toward at least one of the first and second substrates, on the area where the first laser beam has been radiated, so as to anneal the first or second substrate, wherein the intensity of the first laser beam is different from that of the second laser beam, and wherein the second laser beam is radiated in a substantially opposite direction to the direction of radiation of the first laser beam.

15. The flat panel display device of claim 14, wherein the first laser beam has an intensity which is substantially greater than that of the second laser beam.

16. The flat panel display device of claim 14, wherein the second intensity is from about 70% to about 80% of the first intensity.

17. The flat panel display device of claim 14, the second laser beam is configured to anneal at least one of the first and second substrates.

18. A method of manufacturing a flat panel display device, the method comprising:

providing a glass frit between first and second substrates;

radiating a first laser beam, having a first intensity, on one of first and second substrates so as to melt the glass frit and combine the first and second substrates; and

radiating a second laser beam, having a second intensity, on the first radiated region, so as to anneal the first or second substrate, wherein the second intensity is substantially less than that of the first intensity, and wherein the second laser beam is radiated in a substantially opposite direction to the direction of radiation of the first laser beam.