Transparent display device and method of manufacturing a transparent display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10074705-B2
Application number	US-201715447798-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2017
Priority date	May 16, 2016
Publication date	Sep 11, 2018
Grant date	Sep 11, 2018

Abstract

In a method of manufacturing a transparent display device, a substrate including a pixel region and a transmission region may be provided. A first electrode may be formed on the substrate in the pixel region, and a display layer may be formed on the first electrode. A second electrode facing the first electrode may be formed on the display layer, and a capping structure including a first capping layer and a second capping layer may be formed on the second electrode. The first capping layer may be formed on the second electrode in the pixel region and a first region of the transmission region by using a mask that has an opening, the mask may be shifted, and the second capping layer may be formed on the second electrode in the pixel region and a second region of the transmission region by using the shifted mask.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A transparent display device comprising:
a substrate including a pixel region and a transmission region which are arranged along a first direction;
a first electrode disposed over the substrate in the pixel region;
a display layer disposed on the first electrode;
a second electrode facing the first electrode and disposed on the display layer; and
a capping structure disposed on the second electrode,
wherein the capping structure comprises:
a first capping layer disposed on the second electrode in the pixel region and a first region of the transmission region; and
a second capping layer disposed on the second electrode in the pixel region and a second region of the transmission region.

2. The transparent display device of claim 1 , wherein an end portion of the first region is adjacent to an end portion of the second region in the transmission region; and
wherein the capping structure has a first thickness in the pixel region, and has a second thickness less than the first thickness in the transmission region.

3. The transparent display device of claim 1 , wherein the transmission region further includes a third region in which the first region overlaps the second region; and
wherein the capping structure has a first thickness in the pixel region and the third region of the transmission region, and has a second thickness less than the first thickness in a remaining region of the transmission region, the remaining region being outside the third region.

4. The transparent display device of claim 1 , wherein the transmission region further includes a third region positioned between the first region and the second region; and
wherein the capping structure has a first thickness in the pixel region and has a second thickness less than the first thickness in the first region and the second region.

5. The transparent display device of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the first capping layer is substantially equal to a thickness of the second capping layer.

6. The transparent display device of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of unit pixels each including one of the pixel regions and one of the transmission regions, the plurality of unit pixels being arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction,
wherein the capping structure is provided in at least one unit pixel of the plurality of unit pixels.

7. The transparent display device of claim 6 , wherein the capping structure extends across more than one unit pixel of the plurality of unit pixels.

8. The transparent display device of claim 6 , further comprising a plurality of the capping structures, ones of the capping structures provided separately in respective ones of the unit pixels.

9. The transparent display device of claim 1 , wherein the pixel region includes a red sub-pixel region, a green sub-pixel region, and a blue sub-pixel region which are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

10. The transparent display device of claim 1 , wherein the second electrode includes an aperture overlapping at least a portion of the transmission region.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chung Jin-Koo
• Moon Jeong-Woo
• Park Byoung-Hee
• Choi Jun-Ho

Classifications

• H10K59/10

  OLED displays · CPC title

• H10K50/85

  Arrangements for extracting light from the devices · CPC title

• H10K59/35

  comprising red-green-blue [RGB] subpixels · CPC title

• H10K50/844 Primary

  Encapsulations · CPC title

• H01L27/3258 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic