Display substrate having bridge connected island portions and display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11469285-B2
Application number	US-202016869866-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 8, 2020
Priority date	Oct 8, 2019
Publication date	Oct 11, 2022
Grant date	Oct 11, 2022

Abstract

A display substrate includes a substrate, including a plurality of island portions spaced apart from each other and a plurality of bridge portions connected between the island portions, the substrate having a plurality of openings in regions without the plurality of island portions and the plurality of bridge portions; a layer structure on each of the plurality of island portions and including a light-emitting layer, a common auxiliary layer and a first electrode layer stacked with each other, the layer structure on each of the plurality of island portions forms at least one light-emitting unit. On each of the plurality of island portions, an orthographic projection of the common auxiliary layer on the island portion covers an orthographic projection of the light-emitting layer on the island portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display substrate, comprising:
a substrate, comprising a plurality of island portions spaced apart from each other and a plurality of bridge portions connected between the island portions, the substrate having a plurality of openings in regions without the plurality of island portions and the plurality of bridge portions;
a layer structure on each of the plurality of island portions and comprising a light-emitting layer, a common auxiliary layer and a first electrode layer stacked with each other, the layer structure on each of the plurality of island portions forms at least one light-emitting unit, and
an encapsulation layer on a side of the light-emitting unit away from the substrate;
wherein on each of the plurality of island portions, an orthographic projection of the common auxiliary layer on the island portion covers an orthographic projection of the light-emitting layer on the island portion, an orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the island portion covers the orthographic projection of the common auxiliary layer on the island portion, the orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the island portion is inside the island portion, and an orthographic projection of the encapsulation layer on the island portion covers the island portion.

2. The display substrate of claim 1 , wherein on each of the plurality of island portions,
the layer structure forms a plurality of light-emitting units, the layer structure of each of the plurality of light-emitting units further comprises a second electrode layer, the light-emitting layer is between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, and the second electrode layer is on a side of the first electrode layer close to the substrate; and
the island portion has a pixel region comprising a plurality of sub-pixel regions, an orthographic projection of each second electrode layer on the island portion defines one sub-pixel region, the pixel region is inside the island portion, and orthographic projections of the second electrode layer and the light-emitting layer of each of the plurality of light-emitting units on the island portion are inside one sub-pixel region.

3. The display substrate of claim 2 , wherein the first electrode layer on each of the plurality of island portions is formed as a single piece.

4. The display substrate of claim 3 , wherein on each of the plurality of island portions, the pixel region is inside the orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the island portion.

5. The display substrate of claim 2 , wherein the common auxiliary layer is between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.

6. The display substrate of claim 5 , wherein on each of the plurality of island portions, the pixel region is inside the orthographic projection of the common auxiliary layer on the island portion.

7. The display substrate of claim 5 , wherein the layer structure on each of the plurality of island portions comprises a plurality of common auxiliary layers, and orthographic projections of the plurality of common auxiliary layers in different layers on the island portion coincide with each other.

8. The display substrate of claim 5 , wherein on each of the plurality of island portions,
the first electrode layer is formed as a single piece;
the orthographic projection of the common auxiliary layer on the island portion falls inside the orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the island portion;
the island portion is further provided with an electrode lead connected to the first electrode layer, a through hole is in a layer structure between the first electrode layer and the electrode lead, and the first electrode layer is in contact with the electrode lead through the through hole; and
an orthographic projection of the through hole on the island portion is outside the orthographic projection of the common auxiliary layer on the island portion and inside the orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the island portion.

9. The display substrate of claim 1 , wherein the first electrode layer is a cathode layer and the second electrode layer is an anode layer.

10. The display substrate of claim 1 , wherein the substrate is made of a flexible material, the plurality of island portions are arranged in an array, and the plurality of bridge portions are configured to deform in response to the display substrate being stretched so that the display substrate is stretchable.

11. The display substrate of claim 8 , wherein when viewed in a plan view, the electrode lead is around a periphery of the common auxiliary layer and extends in a region between the periphery of the common auxiliary layer and a periphery of the first electrode layer and to the bridge portion.

12. The display substrate of claim 8 , wherein the first electrode layer on each island portion is electrically connected to the electrode lead.

13. The display substrate of claim 8 , wherein the layer structure further comprises a pixel defining layer configured to define the light-emitting units, the through hole being in the pixel defining layer.

14. The display substrate of claim 8 , wherein four through holes are in the layer structure between the first electrode layer and the electrode lead, and orthographic projections of the four through holes on the island portion are at four corners of the orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the island portion.

15. The display substrate of claim 2 , wherein the encapsulation layer comprises a first encapsulation sub-layer, a second encapsulation sub-layer, a third encapsulation sub-layer, and the first encapsulation sub-layer and the third encapsulation sub-layer comprise an inorganic material and the second encapsulation sub-layer comprises an organic material.

16. The display substrate of claim 15 , wherein
the first encapsulation sub-layer and the third encapsulation sub-layer are whole-layer structures, respectively, orthographic projections of the first encapsulation sub-layer and the third encapsulation sub-layer on the plurality of island portions cover the plurality of island portions, and
on each of the plurality of island portions, an orthographic projection of the second encapsulation sub-layer on the island portion is completely overlapped with the orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the island portion.

17. A display device, wherein the display device comprises the display substrate according to claim 1 .

18. A method for fabricating a display substrate, wherein the display substrate is the display substrate of claim 1 , the method comprising:
providing the substrate, the substrate comprising the plurality of island portions spaced apart from each other and the plurality of bridge portions connected between the island portions;
forming, on each of the plurality of island portions, the layer structure comprising the light-emitting layer, the common auxiliary layer, and the first electrode layer stacked with each other, such that the layer structure on each of the plurality of island portions form at least one light-emitting unit; and
forming the encapsulation layer on the side of the light-emitting unit away from the substrate.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein forming the layer structure on each of the plurality of island portions comprises:
forming the plurality of second electrode layers on each of the plurality of island portions by a patterning process, wherein an orthographic projection of each of the plura

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd
• Beijing Boe Technology Dev Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Haohan
• Li Yansong
• Wang Pinfan
• Bai Shanshan

Classifications

• Y02P70/50

  Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product · CPC title

• H01L27/3209

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5212

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/326 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/0097

  Electricity · mapped topic