Organic light emitting display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11495653-B2
Application number	US-202016924014-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2020
Priority date	Jul 15, 2019
Publication date	Nov 8, 2022
Grant date	Nov 8, 2022

Abstract

An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate having a sub-pixel area and a pad area, a light shielding layer in the sub-pixel area, a thin film transistor on the light shielding layer in the sub-pixel area, a light emitting diode connected to the thin film transistor, a lower pad electrode in the pad area, a first insulating layer covering the lower pad electrode to expose a portion of the lower pad electrode, an upper pad electrode connected to the lower pad electrode, and a second insulating layer between the first insulating layer and the upper pad electrode, the second insulating layer overlapping the upper pad electrode so that an end portion of the second insulating layer coincides with an end portion of the upper pad electrode.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light emitting display device, comprising:
a substrate having a sub-pixel area and a pad area;
a light shielding layer on the substrate in the sub-pixel area;
a thin film transistor on the light shielding layer in the sub-pixel area;
a light emitting diode in the sub-pixel area and connected to the thin film transistor;
a lower pad electrode in the pad area;
a first insulating layer covering the lower pad electrode to expose a portion of the lower pad electrode;
an upper pad electrode on the first insulating layer and connected to the lower pad electrode; and
a second insulating layer between the first insulating layer and the upper pad electrode, the second insulating layer overlapping the upper pad electrode so that an end portion of the second insulating layer coincides with an end portion of the upper pad electrode.

2. The organic light emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the lower pad electrode has a same lamination structure as the light shielding layer.

3. The organic light emitting display device of claim 2 , wherein the lower pad electrode and the light shielding layer include a first metal layer and a second metal layer on the first metal layer.

4. The organic light emitting display device of claim 3 , wherein each of the first metal layer and the second metal layer includes one or an alloy of ones selected from a group of molybdenum (Mo), aluminum (Al), chromium (Cr), gold (Au), titanium (Ti), nickel (Ni), neodymium (Nd) and copper (Cu).

5. The organic light emitting display device of claim 4 , wherein the first metal layer includes molybdenum-titanium (MoTi), and the second metal layer includes copper (Cu).

6. The organic light emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the first insulating layer includes at least one buffer layer, and the second insulating layer includes a gate insulating layer.

7. The organic light emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode.

8. The organic light emitting display device of claim 7 , wherein each of the gate electrode, the source electrode and the drain electrode has one of a double layer including a first gate layer and a second gate layer and a triple layer including a first gate layer, a second gate layer and a third gate layer.

9. The organic light emitting display device of claim 8 , wherein each of the first gate layer, the second gate layer and the third gate layer includes one or an alloy of ones selected from a group of molybdenum (Mo), aluminum (Al), chromium (Cr), gold (Au), titanium (Ti), nickel (Ni), neodymium (Nd) and copper (Cu).

10. The organic light emitting display device of claim 9 , wherein the upper pad electrode has a same material as the first gate layer.

11. The organic light emitting display device of claim 10 , wherein the upper pad electrode and the first gate layer include molybdenum-titanium (MoTi).

12. The organic light emitting display device of claim 7 , wherein the source electrode and the drain electrode are disposed on and contact the second insulating layer.

13. The organic light emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the light emitting diode includes a first electrode, an organic emitting layer and a second electrode in the sub-pixel area.

14. The organic light emitting display device of claim 13 , further comprising:
a first bank layer exposing the first electrode; and
a second bank layer on the first bank layer and exposing the first bank layer and the first electrode.

15. The organic light emitting display device of claim 14 , wherein the first bank layer has a hydrophilicity and the second bank layer has a hydrophobicity.

16. The organic light emitting display device of claim 14 , wherein the first bank layer has a first open portion for exposing the first electrode, the second bank layer has a second open portion for exposing the first bank layer and the first electrode, and the second open portions are arranged to be parallel to each other along a first direction and extend along a second direction, to expose the first electrodes and the first open portions along the second direction.

17. The organic light emitting display device of claim 16 , wherein an emitting material of the light emitting diodes emitting a same colored light are dispensed in a single second open portions.

18. The organic light emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the first insulating layer covers the light shielding layer to expose a portion of the light shielding layer.

19. The organic light emitting display device of claim 7 , wherein the end portion of the second insulating layer coincides with the end portion of the gate electrode.

20. The organic light emitting display device of claim 7 , wherein a material for the first gate layer has an etch rate smaller than a material for the second gate layer.

Assignees

• Lg Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kwack Hee-Young
• Lee Oh-Young

Classifications

• H01L27/3272 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3246

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10K50/865

  comprising light absorbing layers, e.g. light-blocking layers · CPC title

• H10K59/124

  Insulating layers formed between TFT elements and OLED elements · CPC title

• H10K50/805 Primary

  Electrodes · CPC title