Display device

• US 9,146,418 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2012
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kim, Gun-Shik, Oh, Jun-Sik, Lee, Dong-Kyu
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ashok
• Application Number:
  US13/366,645
• Publication Number:
  US 20120320287A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,331 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133565 inside the LC elements, i.e. between the cell substrates
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133603 with LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/44 Arrangements combining different electro-active layers, e.g. electrochromic, liquid crystal or electroluminescent layers

Abstract

A display device including: an organic light emitting display unit formed on a first substrate, the organic light emitting display unit comprising first and second electrodes facing each other, and an organic emissive layer formed between the first and second electrodes; and a liquid crystal display unit formed on a second substrate facing the first substrate, the liquid crystal display unit configured to operate as a liquid crystal shutter in response to an electrical potential difference, wherein a resonance structure of the organic light emitting display unit enables the liquid crystal display unit to form an image in a color reflected from each pixel of the organic light emitting display unit.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

an organic light emitting display unit formed on a first substrate, the organic light emitting display unit comprising first and second electrodes facing each other, and an organic emissive layer formed between the first and second electrodes; and

a liquid crystal display unit comprising;

a common electrode, wherein the common electrode is the second electrode of the organic light emitting display unit,

a liquid crystal display (LCD) thin film transistor (TFT) formed on a second substrate facing the first substrate, the LCD TFT comprising a pixel electrode, and

a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystals, the liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates,

wherein an electrical potential difference between the pixel electrode and the second electrode rotates the liquid crystals,

wherein a resonance structure of the organic light emitting display unit enables the liquid crystal display unit to form an image in a color reflected from each pixel of the organic light emitting display unit.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein pixels of the organic light emitting display unit and pixels of the liquid crystal display unit face each other and are equal in quantity.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the liquid crystal display unit is a reflective type liquid crystal display unit, and wherein one of the first and second electrodes formed on the first substrate is a reflective plate.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the organic light emitting display unit comprises a thin film transistor and an organic light emitting diode, and has the resonance structure including a combination of a reflective electrode and a semi-transparent electrode, and wherein the first electrode is an anode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, and the second electrode is a cathode facing the first electrode.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the first electrode is the reflective electrode formed of a reflective metal.

6. The display device of claim 4, wherein the second electrode is the semi-transparent electrode formed of a semi-transparent metal.

7. The display device of claim 4, wherein the organic emissive layer comprises red, green, and blue emissive layers to emit red, green, and blue lights, respectively, and wherein the red, green, and blue emissive layers form green, violet, and yellow colors, respectively, due to the resonance structure.

8. The display device of claim 1, wherein a spacer is disposed between the first and second substrates to maintain a gap therebetween.

9. The display device of claim 1, further comprising:

a touch pattern layer formed on the exterior surface of the second substrate.

10. The display device of claim 1, wherein the liquid crystal display unit is a color filterless type.

11. The display device of claim 1, wherein the liquid crystal display unit maintains an off status at night or indoors, and an on status outdoors or at solar light.

12. The display device of claim 1, wherein the organic light emitting display unit and the liquid crystal display unit have the same resolution.

13. The display device of claim 1, wherein a polarizing plate is formed in the exterior surface of the second electrode, and wherein the organic light emitting display unit and the liquid crystal display unit share the polarizing plate.

14. The display device of claim 1, wherein the organic light emitting display unit comprises a thin film transistor and an organic light emitting diode.

15. The display device of claim 14, wherein the thin film transistor comprises:

a semiconductor active layer formed on the first substrate and comprising source and drain regions and a channel region;

a gate electrode stacked on the semiconductor active layer via an insulating layer; and

source and drain electrodes respectively electrically connected to the source and drain regions via a contact hole.

16. The display device of claim 15, wherein the organic light emitting diode comprises:

the first electrode electrically connected to the source electrode or the drain electrode;

the organic emissive layer formed on the first electrode; and

the second electrode formed on the organic emissive layer.