Display substrate, display device, and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12193274-B2
Application number	US-202117512380-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 27, 2021
Priority date	Mar 31, 2021
Publication date	Jan 7, 2025
Grant date	Jan 7, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display substrate includes a first substrate, a pixel defining layer on the first substrate and including a plurality of sub-pixel openings, and at least one recess on a side of the display substrate away from the first substrate. An orthographic projection of the at least one recess on the first substrate and orthographic projections of the plurality of sub-pixel openings on the first substrate do not overlap.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display substrate comprising:
a first substrate;
a pixel defining layer on the first substrate and comprising a plurality of sub-pixel openings;
an insulating layer between the first substrate and the pixel defining layer and comprising a groove;
a circuit structure layer between the first substrate and the insulating layer; and
at least one recess on a side of the display substrate away from the first substrate,
wherein an orthographic projection of the at least one recess on the first substrate and orthographic projections of the plurality of sub-pixel openings on the first substrate do not overlap,
wherein the insulating layer comprises a passivation layer and a first flat layer that are stacked, the passivation layer is between the circuit structure layer and the first flat layer, and
wherein a bottom of the groove is in the first flat layer, or the bottom of the groove is at an interface between the first flat layer and the passivation layer, or the bottom of the groove is in the passivation layer and does not penetrate the passivation layer.

2. The display substrate according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a light-emitting layer on a side of the pixel defining layer away from the first substrate and at least in the plurality of sub-pixel openings; and
a cathode on a side of the light-emitting layer away from the first substrate, and covering a surface of the light-emitting layer away from the first substrate and a surface of the pixel defining layer away from the first substrate and not covered by the light-emitting layer,
wherein at least a part of the pixel defining layer and a part of the cathode are stacked in the groove to form the recess.

3. The display substrate according to claim 2 , wherein a part of the pixel defining layer, a part of the light-emitting layer, and a part of the cathode are stacked in the groove to form the recess.

4. The display substrate according to claim 2 , further comprising:
an anode between the insulating layer and the light-emitting layer and in at least one of the plurality of sub-pixel openings.

5. The display substrate according to claim 4 , wherein the anode is electrically connected to a thin film transistor in the circuit structure layer through a via hole penetrating the groove.

6. The display substrate according to claim 5 , wherein the anode covers a part of the bottom of the groove.

7. The display substrate according to claim 4 , wherein an orthographic projection of the recess on the first substrate and an orthographic projection of a thin film transistor in the circuit structure layer on the first substrate at least partially overlap.

8. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the display substrate comprises a plurality of recesses, and the plurality of recesses are approximately uniformly distributed on the display substrate.

9. The display substrate according to claim 8 , wherein one recess is arranged between every 1-8 sub-pixel openings.

10. A display device comprising:
the display substrate according to claim 1 ; and
a color filter substrate opposite to the display substrate, the color filter substrate comprising at least one spacer protruding toward the display substrate,
wherein the at least one spacer corresponds to the at least one recess in a one-to-one correspondence, and at least a part of one of the at least one spacer is received in a corresponding one of the at least one recess.

11. The display device according to claim 10 , wherein the color filter substrate further comprises an auxiliary electrode between a protruding end of the spacer and the recess, and the auxiliary electrode is electrically connected to a cathode of the display substrate.

12. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein a distance between the auxiliary electrode and the first substrate is a first distance, a distance between a portion of a light-emitting layer of the display substrate in the sub-pixel openings and the first substrate is a second distance, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance.

13. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein a material of the auxiliary electrode is at least one selected from a group consisting of Mo, Al, Ti, Au, Cu, Hf, Ta, Nd or alloys thereof.

14. The display device according to claim 10 , wherein the color filter substrate further comprises:
a second substrate;
a filter layer on the second substrate; and
a second flat layer on a side of the filter layer away from the second substrate,
wherein the spacer is on a side of the second flat layer away from the second substrate and is integrally formed with the second flat layer.

15. The display device according to claim 14 , wherein a material of the second flat layer and the spacer is at least one selected from a group consisting of resin, spin on glass, and benzocyclobutene.

16. A method for manufacturing the display device according to claim 10 , comprising:
forming the display substrate comprising the at least one recess;
forming the color filter substrate comprising the at least one spacer, the at least one spacer corresponding to the at least one recess in a one-to-one correspondence; and
assembling the display substrate and the color filter substrate to make at least a part of one of the at least one spacer to be received in a corresponding one of the at least one recess.

17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein the forming the display substrate comprises:
sequentially forming a circuit structure layer and an insulating material layer on the first substrate;
patterning the insulating material layer to form an insulating layer comprising the groove; and
sequentially forming an anode, a pixel defining layer, a light-emitting layer, and a cathode on a side of the insulating layer away from the first substrate, so that at least a part of the pixel defining layer and a part of the cathode are stacked in the groove to form the recess.

18. The method according to claim 16 , wherein the forming the color filter substrate comprises:
forming a filter layer on a second substrate; and
applying a flat layer on a side of the filter layer away from the second substrate, and patterning the flat layer to simultaneously form a second flat layer and the spacer.

19. The method according to claim 18 , wherein the forming the color filter substrate further comprises:
forming an auxiliary electrode at a protruding end of the spacer on a side away from the second substrate.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Guoying
• Xu Pan
• Zhang Xing
• Han Ying
• Gao Zhan
• Song Zhen

Classifications

• H10K59/8792

  comprising light absorbing layers, e.g. black layers · CPC title

• H10K59/80522

  combined with auxiliary electrodes · CPC title

• H10K71/00

  Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass · CPC title

• H10K59/122 Primary

  Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks · CPC title

• H10K59/123 Primary

  Connection of the pixel electrodes to the thin film transistors [TFT] · CPC title