Display device

1. A display device comprising:

an emission area and a sub area disposed on a side of the emission area and spaced apart from the emission area;

a plurality of electrodes disposed in the emission area and spaced apart from each other in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, the plurality of electrodes extending in the second direction; and

a plurality of light emitting elements having ends disposed on the plurality of electrodes spaced apart in the first direction,

wherein the emission area comprises:

a first area where some of electrodes are spaced apart from each other in the second direction; and

a plurality of first dummy patterns disposed in the first area and spaced apart from the plurality of electrodes in the second direction.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein a vertical distance in the first direction between the plurality of first dummy patterns is greater than a gap between the plurality of electrodes spaced apart in the first direction.

3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein the vertical distance in the first direction between the plurality of first dummy patterns is greater than a length of each of the plurality of light emitting elements.

4. The display device of claim 2 , wherein each of the plurality of first dummy patterns is spaced apart in the first direction from an imaginary line extending from sides of the plurality of electrodes disposed side by side in the second direction.

5. The display device of claim 4 , wherein the plurality of first dummy patterns are not disposed side by side with each other in the first direction.

6. The display device of claim 2 , wherein

a number of the plurality of electrodes are disposed in the sub area and spaced apart from other electrodes of the plurality of electrodes in the second direction, and

the plurality of first dummy patterns are not disposed in a second area where some of the plurality of electrodes are spaced apart from each other in the sub area.

7. The display device of claim 2 , further comprising:

a first insulating layer disposed on the plurality of electrodes; and

insulating patterns disposed on the plurality of first dummy patterns.

8. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of electrodes comprise:

a first electrode;

a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode in the first direction;

a third electrode disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode;

a fourth electrode spaced apart from the second electrode in the first direction;

a fifth electrode spaced apart from the first electrode in the second direction;

a sixth electrode spaced apart from the second electrode in the second direction;

a seventh electrode spaced apart from the third electrode in the second direction; and

an eighth electrode spaced apart from the fourth electrode in the second direction.

9. The display device of claim 8 , further comprising:

a first contact electrode disposed on the first electrode and electrically contacting a number of the plurality of light emitting elements;

a second contact electrode disposed on the second electrode and electrically contacting a number of the plurality of light emitting elements; and

a third contact electrode disposed on the third electrode and the fifth electrode and comprising a first connecting part extending in the first direction in the first area,

wherein the plurality of first dummy patterns do not overlap the first contact electrode, the second contact electrode, and the third contact electrode.

10. The display device of claim 9 , further comprising a second dummy pattern overlapping the third contact electrode and directly contacting the third contact electrode.

11. The display device of claim 9 , further comprising:

a fourth contact electrode disposed on the seventh electrode and the eighth electrode of the plurality of electrodes and comprising a second connecting part extending in the first direction in an area other than the first area;

a fifth contact electrode disposed on the fourth electrode and the sixth electrode of the plurality of electrodes and comprising a third connecting part extending in the first direction in the first area; and

a third dummy pattern overlapping one of the first contact electrode, the second contact electrode and the fourth contact electrode, the third dummy pattern not directly contacting a corresponding contact electrode.

12. The display device of claim 9 , further comprising at least one fourth dummy pattern directly connected to one of the first electrode, the second electrode, the third electrode, the fourth electrode, the fifth electrode, the sixth electrode, the seventh electrode, and the eight electrode of the plurality of electrodes.

13. The display device of claim 9 , further comprising at least one fifth dummy pattern having a length in the second direction greater than a length of each of the plurality of first dummy patterns.

14. The display device of claim 9 , further comprising at least one sixth dummy pattern having a width in the first direction greater than a width of each of the plurality of first dummy patterns.

15. A display device comprising:

a first electrode group comprising a plurality of electrodes spaced apart in a first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction;

a second electrode group spaced apart from the first electrode group in the second direction and comprising a plurality of electrodes;

a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the electrodes spaced apart in the first direction of the first electrode group;

a plurality of contact electrodes, each of the plurality of contact electrodes electrically contacting at least one of the electrodes of the first electrode group and the second electrode group and a number of the plurality of light emitting elements; and

a plurality of dummy patterns disposed in a first area between the first electrode group and the second electrode group,

wherein a vertical distance in the first direction between different dummy patterns of the plurality of dummy patterns is greater than a gap between the electrodes spaced apart in the first direction of the first electrode group.

16. The display device of claim 15 , wherein

the plurality of dummy patterns comprise a first dummy pattern spaced apart from the electrodes of the first electrode group and the second electrode group in the second direction, and

the first dummy pattern does not overlap the plurality of contact electrodes.

17. The display device of claim 16 , wherein

the plurality of contact electrodes comprise:

a plurality of first contact electrodes, each of the plurality of first contact electrodes being disposed on one of the plurality of electrodes of the first electrode group and the second electrode group; and

a plurality of second contact electrodes, each of the plurality of second contact electrodes being disposed on two or more of the plurality of electrodes of the first electrode group and the second electrode group, and

the plurality of dummy patterns comprise:

a second dummy pattern directly contacting each of the second contact electrodes; and

a third dummy pattern overlapping one of the plurality of contact electrodes, the third dummy pattern not contacting a corresponding contact electrode of the plurality of contact electrodes.

18. The display device of claim 16 , wherein at least one of the plurality of dummy patterns is directly connected to one of the plurality of electrodes of the first electrode group and the second electrode group.

19. The display device of claim 16 , wherein a length of at least one of the plurality of dummy patterns in the second direction is greater than a length of the first dummy pattern.

20. The display device of claim 16 , wherein a width of at least one of the plurality of dummy patterns in the first direction is greater than a width of the first dummy pattern.