IP Library Granted Patent US 10,038,040
Granted Patent B2
US 10,038,040 · App. 15/883,354 · Granted Jul 31, 2018

Display device, electronic apparatus, and method of fabricating the display device

Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
H01L27/3248H01L27/3246H01L27/3262H01L51/001H01L51/0011H01L51/0097H01L51/56H01L27/1222H01L27/1277H01L27/1288H01L29/78675H01L2227/323H01L2251/5338
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Patent No.
US 10,038,040
App. No.
15/883,354
Granted
Jul 31, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

It is an object of the invention to provide a technique to manufacture a display device with high image quality and high reliability at low cost with high yield. The invention has spacers over a pixel electrode layer in a pixel region and over an insulating layer functioning as a partition which covers the periphery of the pixel electrode layer. When forming a light emitting material over a pixel electrode layer, a mask for selective formation is supported by the spacers, thereby preventing the mask from contacting the pixel electrode layer due to a twist and deflection thereof. Accordingly, such damage as a crack by the mask does not occur in the pixel electrode layer. Thus, the pixel electrode layer does not have a defect in shapes, thereby a display device which performs a high resolution display with high reliability can be manufactured.

Claims (41)

1. A semiconductor device comprising:

a transistor over a first substrate;

a first insulating layer over the transistor;

a first electrode over the first insulating layer;

a second insulating layer covering an end portion of the first electrode, the second insulating layer being adjacent to a convex portion;

a layer comprising an organic compound over the first electrode;

a second electrode over the layer and the convex portion of the second insulating layer; and

a third insulating layer over the second electrode,

wherein the first insulating layer comprises a first organic material,

wherein the second insulating layer comprises a second organic material,

wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to the transistor, and

wherein the second insulating layer is in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the first insulating layer at an end portion of the first insulating layer.

2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , further comprising a second substrate over the third insulating layer.

3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the first substrate is a flexible substrate.

4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the layer is capable of emitting white light.

5. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the first organic material comprises any one of polyimide, acrylic, polyamide, and polyimide amide.

6. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the first organic material is the same as the second organic material.

7. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the third insulating layer comprises at least one of silicon nitride, silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride, silicon nitride oxide, aluminum nitride, aluminum oxynitride, and aluminum nitride oxide.

8. A display module comprising the semiconductor device according to claim 1 .

9. An electronic apparatus comprising the display module according to claim 8 .

10. A semiconductor device comprising:

a transistor over a first substrate;

a first insulating layer over the transistor;

a first electrode over the first insulating layer;

a second insulating layer covering an end portion of the first electrode, the second insulating layer being adjacent to a convex portion;

a layer comprising an organic compound over the first electrode;

a second electrode over the layer and the convex portion of the second insulating layer; and

a third insulating layer over the second electrode,

wherein the first insulating layer comprises a first organic material,

wherein the second insulating layer comprises a second organic material,

wherein the convex portion comprises the second organic material,

wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to the transistor, and

wherein the second insulating layer is in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the first insulating layer at an end portion of the first insulating layer.

11. The semiconductor device according to claim 10 , further comprising a second substrate over the third insulating layer.

12. The semiconductor device according to claim 10 , wherein the first substrate is a flexible substrate.

13. The semiconductor device according to claim 10 , wherein the layer is capable of emitting white light.

14. The semiconductor device according to claim 10 , wherein the first organic material comprises any one of polyimide, acrylic, polyamide, and polyimide amide.

15. The semiconductor device according to claim 10 , wherein the first organic material is the same as the second organic material.

16. The semiconductor device according to claim 10 , wherein the third insulating layer comprises at least one of silicon nitride, silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride, silicon nitride oxide, aluminum nitride, aluminum oxynitride, and aluminum nitride oxide.

17. A display module comprising the semiconductor device according to claim 10 .

18. An electronic apparatus comprising the display module according to claim 17 .

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2004-284940 · Sep 29, 2004 · national
Continuity (7)
Continuation 15386938 · Dec 21, 2016
Continuation 14854857 · Sep 15, 2015
Continuation 14307768 · Jun 18, 2014
Continuation 13559634 · Jul 27, 2012
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