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Granted Patent B2
US 11,710,431 · App. 17/070,581 · Granted Jul 25, 2023

Manufacturing method of display apparatus, interposer substrate, and computer program stored in readable medium

Inventors: Byungchul Kim (Suwon-si, KR); Doyoung Kwag (Suwon-si, KR); Sangmoo Park (Suwon-si, KR); Minsub Oh (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
G09G3/006H01L27/156H01L33/38H01L33/62
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Patent No.
US 11,710,431
App. No.
17/070,581
Granted
Jul 25, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes performing a first repair process of detecting a first defective light emitting diode (LED) from among a plurality of LEDs provided on a sapphire substrate and removing the first defective LED; attaching the plurality of LEDs to electrode patterns of an interposer substrate and separating the sapphire substrate from the plurality of LEDs; and performing a second repair process of detecting a second defective LED among the plurality of LEDs attached to the electrode patterns and replacing the second defective LED.

Claims (51)

1. A method of manufacturing a display apparatus comprising:

performing a first repair process of detecting a first defective light emitting diode (LED) provided on a sapphire substrate and removing the first defective LED so that a first plurality of LEDs remain on the sapphire substrate;

attaching the first plurality of LEDs to electrode patterns of an interposer substrate and separating the sapphire substrate from the first plurality of LEDs; and

performing a second repair process of detecting a second defective LED among the first plurality of LEDs that have been separated from the sapphire substrate and are attached to the electrode patterns, and replacing the second defective LED with a second repair LED so that a second plurality of LEDs are provided on the interposer substrate, wherein the second repair LED is one of the second plurality of LEDs.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

attaching the second plurality of LEDs, that are attached to the electrode patterns of the interposer substrate, to a carrier substrate and separating the interposer substrate from the second plurality of LEDs;

transferring the second plurality of LEDs attached to the carrier substrate to a backplane; and

performing a third repair process of detecting a third defective LED among the second plurality of LEDs transferred to the backplane and repairing a subpixel corresponding to the third defective LED,

wherein the backplane includes main areas in which the second plurality of LEDs are disposed, and a repair area in which a third repair LED is mountable.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first repair process comprises detecting the first defective LED by performing a photoluminescence (PL) inspection.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an adhesive material is provided over the electrode patterns of the interposer substrate or the electrode patterns are provided on the adhesive material applied to the interposer substrate.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the attaching of the first plurality of LEDs to the electrode patterns of the interposer substrate comprises:

connecting an anode of each of the first plurality of LEDs to a first electrode of the electrode patterns; and

connecting a cathode of each of the first plurality of LEDs to a second electrode of the electrode patterns.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the second repair process comprises, based on the first defective LED being removed in the first repair process, attaching a first repair LED to the electrode patterns of the interposer substrate and then performing an electroluminescence (EL) inspection.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the second repair process further comprises:

based on the second defective LED being detected by performing the EL inspection, replacing the second defective LED with the second repair LED.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising attaching the second plurality of LEDs to a backplane that includes main areas in which the second plurality of LEDs are disposed, and a repair area in which a third repair LED is mountable.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the backplane comprises:

a plurality of anode pads configured to be connected to anodes of the second plurality of LEDs;

repair anode pads; and

at least one cathode pad configured to be connected to cathodes of the second plurality of LEDs and be connected to a cathode of the third repair LED.

10. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:

performing an electroluminescence (EL) inspection; and

mounting the third repair LED in the repair area.

11. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising cutting a third defective LED.

12. An interposer substrate comprising:

a substrate;

a first electrode pattern provided on the substrate and configured to be connected to an anode of each of a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided on a sapphire substrate and to supply power to the plurality of LEDs;

a second electrode pattern provided on the substrate and configured to be connected to a cathode of each of the plurality of LEDs provided on the sapphire substrate; and

an adhesive material configured to provide an adhesive force for attaching the plurality of LEDs to the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern.

13. The interposer substrate according to claim 12 , wherein the adhesive material is disposed over the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern.

14. The interposer substrate according to claim 12 , wherein the adhesive material is disposed between the substrate and the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern.

15. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a computer program which is executed by a computing device to perform a method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method comprising:

performing a first repair process of detecting a first defective light emitting diode (LED) provided on a sapphire substrate and removing the first defective LED so that a first plurality of LEDs remain on the sapphire substrate;

attaching the first plurality of LEDs to electrode patterns of an interposer substrate and separating the sapphire substrate from the first plurality of LEDs; and

performing a second repair process of detecting a second defective LED among the first plurality of LEDs that have been separated from the sapphire substrate and are attached to the electrode patterns and replacing the second defective LED with a second repair LED so that a second plurality of LEDs are provided on the interposer substrate, wherein the second repair LED is one of the second plurality of LEDs.

16. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium according to claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises:

attaching the second plurality of LEDs, that are attached to the electrode patterns of the interposer substrate, to a carrier substrate and separating the interposer substrate from the second plurality of LEDs;

transferring the second plurality of LEDs attached to the carrier substrate to a backplane; and

performing a third repair process of detecting a third defective LED among the second plurality of LEDs transferred to the backplane and repairing a sub-pixel corresponding to the third defective LED.

17. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium according to claim 15 , wherein the performing of the first repair process comprises:

detecting the first defective LED by performing a photoluminescence (PL) inspection.

18. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium according to claim 15 , wherein the performing of the second repair process comprises:

based on the first defective LED being removed in the first repair process, attaching a first repair LED to the electrode patterns of the interposer substrate and then performing an electroluminescence (EL) inspection; and

based on the second defective LED being detected by performing the EL inspection, replacing the second defective LED with the second repair LED.

19. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium according to claim 16 , wherein the performing of the third repair process comprises:

performing an electroluminescence inspection; and

mounting a third repair LED corresponding to the third defective LED in a repair area of the backplane.

20. The interposer substrate according to claim 12 , wherein the plurality of LEDs comprises a first LED and a second LED, and

wherein each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern extends on the substrate between the first LED and the second LED.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 14, 2020
From: KIM, BYUNGCHUL; KWAG, DOYOUNG; PARK, SANGMOO; OH, MINSUB
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2019-0127573 · Oct 15, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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