Electroluminescent display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10141377-B2
Application number	US-201715635888-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2017
Priority date	Jul 29, 2016
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

An electroluminescent display device includes a substrate on which first and second pixel regions are defined, a passivation layer over the substrate, a first electrode in each of the first and second pixel regions on the passivation layer, a bank layer exposing the first electrode, a light emitting layer on the first electrode exposed by the bank layer, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer, wherein the bank layer includes first and second openings exposing the first electrodes corresponding to the first and second pixel regions, respectively, and a depth of the second opening is larger than a depth of the first opening.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electroluminescent display device comprising:
a substrate on which first and second pixel regions are defined;
a passivation layer over the substrate;
a first electrode in each of the first and second pixel regions on the passivation layer;
a bank layer exposing the first electrode;
a light emitting layer on the first electrode exposed by the bank layer; and
a second electrode on the light emitting layer,
wherein the bank layer includes first and second openings exposing the first electrodes corresponding to the first and second pixel regions, respectively,
wherein the bank layer further includes a third opening exposing the first electrode corresponding to a third pixel region,
wherein a depth of the first opening is larger than a depth of the third opening,
wherein a height of the bank layer of the third pixel region is smaller than a height of the bank layer of the first pixel region, and
wherein the passivation layer has a groove in the second opening of the second pixel region, and each of the bank layer of the first and second pixel regions has a same height.

2. The electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a height of the bank layer of the second pixel region is larger than the height of the bank layer of the first pixel region.

3. The electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the light emitting layer at a central portion of the first pixel region is larger than a thickness of the light emitting layer at a central portion of the second pixel region.

4. The electroluminescent display device of claim 3 , wherein the light emitting layer in each of the first and second pixel regions includes a hole auxiliary layer, a light emitting material layer and an electron auxiliary layer, and
wherein a thickness of the hole auxiliary layer at a central portion of the first pixel region is larger than a thickness of the hole auxiliary layer at a central portion of the second pixel region.

5. The electroluminescent display device of claim 3 , wherein the first and second pixel regions have a same aperture ratio.

6. The electroluminescent display device of claim 3 , wherein the light emitting layer in the first pixel region emits light with a longer wavelength than the light emitting layer in the second pixel region.

7. The electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a portion of the bank layer of the first pixel region is connected to a portion of the bank layer of the second pixel region adjacent thereto to thereby form one body.

8. The electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the passivation layer corresponding to the first pixel region is larger than a thickness of the passivation layer corresponding to the groove in the second pixel region.

9. The electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the light emitting layer at a central portion of the third pixel region is smaller than a thickness of the light emitting layer at a central portion of the second pixel region.

10. The electroluminescent display device of claim 9 , wherein the light emitting layer in the third pixel region emits light with a shorter wavelength than the light emitting layer in the second pixel region.

11. The electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a portion of the bank layer of the second pixel region is connected to a portion of the bank layer of the third pixel region adjacent thereto to thereby form one body.

12. The electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the groove of the passivation layer has a depth smaller than a thickness of the passivation layer.

13. The electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the first, second and third pixel regions correspond to red, green and blue pixel regions respectively.

14. An electroluminescent display device comprising:
a substrate on which first, second and third pixel regions are defined;
a passivation layer over the substrate;
a first electrode in each of the first, second and third pixel regions on the passivation layer;
a bank layer exposing the first electrode;
a light emitting layer on the first electrode exposed by the bank layer; and
a second electrode on the light emitting layer,
wherein the bank layer includes first, second and third openings exposing the first electrodes corresponding to the first, second and third pixel regions, respectively,
wherein a height of the bank layer of the third pixel region is different from a height of the bank layer of each of the first and second pixel regions,
wherein the height of the bank layer of the first pixel region is different from the height of the bank layer of the second pixel region, and
wherein the passivation layer has a groove in either the first opening of the first pixel region or the second opening of the second pixel region.

15. The electroluminescent display device of claim 14 , wherein a depth of the second opening is different than a depth of the first opening.

Assignees

• Lg Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Sang-Bin
• Hwang Hye-Min
• Yun Hui-Kun
• Youn Jun-Ho
• Kim Jun-Young

Classifications

• G09G2300/0842

  forming a memory circuit, e.g. a dynamic memory with one capacitor · CPC title

• G09G3/32

  semiconductive, e.g. using light-emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title

• H01L27/3258

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2227/323

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3246

  Electricity · mapped topic