Organic light emitting diode display and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10276644-B2
Application number	US-201615014570-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2016
Priority date	Aug 13, 2015
Publication date	Apr 30, 2019
Grant date	Apr 30, 2019

Abstract

An organic light emitting diode display comprises a substrate including a display area in which a pixel is disposed and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a driving semiconductor layer disposed in the display area on the substrate, a driving gate electrode disposed in the display area on the driving semiconductor layer, a common voltage line disposed in the peripheral area on the substrate and disposed on a same layer as the driving gate electrode, a gate electrode anti-oxidation layer disposed on the driving gate electrode, a common voltage line anti-oxidation layer disposed on the common voltage line, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the driving semiconductor layer, the driving gate electrode, the common voltage line, the gate electrode anti-oxidation layer, and the common voltage line anti-oxidation layer. A driving source electrode and a driving drain electrode are disposed in the display area on the interlayer insulating layer, and a common voltage applying electrode is disposed in the peripheral area on the interlayer insulating layer and on the same layer as the driving source electrode and the driving drain electrode.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light emitting diode display device, comprising:
a substrate including a display area in which a pixel is disposed and a peripheral area surrounding the display area;
a driving semiconductor layer disposed in the display area on the substrate;
a driving gate electrode disposed in the display area on the driving semiconductor layer;
a common voltage line disposed in the peripheral area on the substrate and on a same layer as the driving gate electrode, wherein the common voltage line is configured to supply a common voltage;
a gate electrode anti-oxidation layer disposed on the driving gate electrode;
a common voltage line anti-oxidation layer disposed on the common voltage line;
an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the driving semiconductor layer, the driving gate electrode, the common voltage line, the driving gate electrode anti-oxidation layer, and the common voltage line anti-oxidation layer;
a driving source electrode and a driving drain electrode disposed in the display area on the interlayer insulating layer; and
a common voltage applying electrode disposed in the peripheral area on the interlayer insulating layer and disposed on a same layer as the driving source electrode and the driving drain electrode;
wherein the common voltage applying electrode is connected to the common voltage line through a first contact hole formed in the interlayer insulating layer;
wherein the first contact hole does not overlap with the common voltage line anti-oxidation layer in a plan view;
wherein the interlayer insulating layer is disposed between the common voltage line anti-oxidation layer and the first contact hole;
wherein the common voltage line anti-oxidation layer comprises an opening overlapping the common voltage line;
wherein a width of the opening is smaller than a width of the common voltage line; and
wherein the first contact hole is disposed in the opening in a plan view.

2. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 1 , wherein:
the driving gate electrode and the common voltage line comprise at least one material selected from a group consisting of silver (Ag), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), gold (Au), nickel (Ni), neodymium (Nd), iridium (Ir), chromium (Cr), lithium (Li), calcium (Ca), molybdenum (Mo), titanium (Ti), tungsten (W), molybdenum tungsten (MoVV), and copper (Cu); and
the gate electrode anti-oxidation layer and the common voltage line anti-oxidation layer comprise a transparent conductive material.

3. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 2 , wherein:
the driving gate electrode and the common voltage line comprise a first layer comprising aluminum (Al), and a second layer disposed on the first layer and comprising molybdenum (Mo); and
the gate electrode anti-oxidation layer and the common voltage line anti-oxidation layer comprise indium tin oxide (ITO).

4. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a passivation layer disposed on the driving source electrode, the driving drain electrode, and the common voltage applying electrode; and
a pixel electrode disposed in the display area on the passivation layer and connected to the driving drain electrode.

5. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 4 , further comprising a pixel defining layer disposed on an edge of the pixel electrode and exposing the pixel electrode.

6. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 5 , further comprising an organic emission layer disposed on the exposed pixel electrode, and a common electrode disposed on the organic emission layer and the pixel defining layer.

7. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 6 , wherein the pixel defining layer and the passivation layer comprise a second contact hole exposing a portion of the common voltage applying electrode.

8. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 7 , wherein the common electrode is connected to the common voltage applying electrode through the second contact hole.

9. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 4 , further comprising a capacitor including a first capacitive plate and a second capacitive plate with the passivation layer disposed therebetween.

10. The organic light emitting diode display device of claim 9 , wherein:
the first capacitive plate is disposed on the same layer as the driving gate electrode; and
the second capacitive plate is disposed on the same layer as the driving source electrode and the driving drain electrode.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• You Chun Gi
• Lee Gwang Geun

Classifications

• H01L29/4908

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/1237

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L29/78606

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/525

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/124

  Electricity · mapped topic