Pixel circuit and display device, and a method of manufacturing pixel circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9336719-B2
Application number	US-201514826285-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 14, 2015
Priority date	Nov 17, 2006
Publication date	May 10, 2016
Grant date	May 10, 2016

Abstract

The display device including a pixel circuit has a first line, a transistor, a light emitting element, and a second line. The transistor is located between the second line and an electrode of the light emitting element. Either the first line or the second line is wired in a region that overlaps a light emitting region of the light emitting element in a lamination direction of layers. The second line intersects the first line outside of the light emitting region and overlaps a non-light emitting region of the light emitting element.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic electroluminescent display device comprising a display panel including:
a semiconductor layer made of a semiconductor material, the semiconductor layer comprising a channel portion, a first terminal portion, and a second terminal portion of a transistor;
a first conductive layer made of a first material, the first conductive layer comprising a control terminal portion of the transistor;
a second conductive layer made of a second material, the second conductive layer comprising a data signal wiring and a lower conductive portion, the data signal wiring and the lower conductive portion being arranged independently from each other in the second conductive layer; and
a third conductive layer made of a third material, the third conductive layer comprising an upper conductive portion,

wherein,
a first contact region connects the first terminal portion and the lower conductive portion,
a second contact region connects the lower conductive portion and the upper conductive portion,
the second contact region overlaps with the first contact region,
the data signal wiring extends along a first direction,
the upper conductive portion extents along a second direction different from the first direction,
the data signal wiring overlaps with a light emission region of an organic electroluminescent element, and
the data signal wiring crosses the upper conductive portion outside of the light emission region of the organic electroluminescent element.

2. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 , wherein the upper conductive portion does not overlap with the light emission region of the organic EL element.

3. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first material includes molybdenum, the second material includes aluminum, and the third material includes silver.

4. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 , wherein the transistor is configured to control a current supply.

5. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 , wherein the upper conductive portion is configured to supply a voltage for a non-emission period of the organic electroluminescent element.

6. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 , wherein the second conductive layer is disposed above the first conductive layer, and the third conductive layer is disposed above the second conductive layer.

7. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor layer is disposed above the first conductive layer.

8. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 , wherein a first terminal of a capacitor is configured to receive a first voltage from the upper conductive portion via the transistor, and a second terminal of the capacitor is configured to receive a second voltage from the data signal wiring via another transistor.

9. The organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein,
the upper conductive portion does not overlap with the light emission region of the organic electroluminescent element,
the second conductive layer is disposed above the first conductive layer,
the third conductive layer is disposed above the second conductive layer,
the first material includes molybdenum,
the second material includes aluminum, and
the third material includes silver.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Iida Yukihito
• Takagi Akitsuna
• Uchino Katsuhide

Classifications

• G09G2300/0426

  Layout of electrodes and connections · CPC title

• G09G2300/0819

  used for counteracting undesired variations, e.g. feedback or autozeroing · CPC title

• G09G2320/0626

  for control of overall brightness · CPC title

• G09G3/3233 Primary

  with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element · CPC title

• G09G2300/0842

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