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Granted Patent B2
US 12,176,382 · App. 17/545,617 · Granted Dec 24, 2024

Light-emitting display device

Inventors: Nayoung Lee (Paju-si, KR); Yonghoon Choi (Paju-si, KR); Soyoung Jo (Paju-si, KR); Mingeun Choi (Paju-si, KR)
Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
H01L27/156H01L33/38H01L33/50
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Patent No.
US 12,176,382
App. No.
17/545,617
Granted
Dec 24, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A light-emitting display device includes: a substrate, a plurality of pixels on the substrate, each pixel including an opening area, a light extraction pattern disposed in each opening area, the light extraction pattern including: a plurality of concave portions spaced apart from each other, and a protruding portion surrounding each of the plurality of concave portions, and a light-emitting device layer including: a light-emitting layer over the light extraction pattern, and a non-emission area overlapping a top portion of the protruding portion between the two adjacent concave portions.

Claims (72)

1. A light-emitting display device, comprising:

a substrate;

a plurality of pixels on the substrate, each pixel comprising an opening area;

a light extraction pattern disposed in the opening area, the light extraction pattern comprising:

a plurality of concave portions spaced apart from each other; and

a protruding portion surrounding each of the plurality of concave portions; and

a light-emitting device layer comprising:

a light-emitting layer over the light extraction pattern; and

a non-emission area overlapping a peak of the protruding portion between two adjacent concave portions among the plurality of concave portions.

2. The light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein:

the protruding portion comprises:

a sharp portion at the peak and having a sharp tip structure; and

an inclined portion inclined from the sharp portion; and

the non-emission area comprises a non-emission convex area overlapping the sharp portion.

3. The light-emitting display device of claim 2 , wherein:

the light-emitting layer comprises:

a convex light-emitting layer over the sharp portion; and

a curved light-emitting layer over the inclined portion; and

the non-emission convex area overlaps the convex light-emitting layer.

4. The light-emitting display device of claim 3 , wherein a width of the non-emission convex area corresponds to a maximum width of the convex light-emitting layer.

5. The light-emitting display device of claim 3 , wherein a width of the non-emission convex area corresponds to a shortest distance between one end and another end of the convex light-emitting layer connected to the curved light-emitting layer, with respect to the sharp portion.

6. The light-emitting display device of claim 3 , wherein:

the non-emission convex area has a width W defined by the following equation:

W= 2 ×d×sinθ,

where ‘θ’ is an angle from 34 degrees to 60 degrees, and

where ‘d’ is a thinnest thickness of the light-emitting layer; and

‘θ’ is an angle between a perpendicular line perpendicular to a tangential line of a portion having the thinnest thickness of the light-emitting layer, and a vertical line passing through the sharp portion.

7. The light-emitting display device of claim 6 , wherein:

the light-emitting device layer comprises:

a first electrode, which is in direct contact with the light extraction pattern; and

a second electrode over the first electrode; and

the light-emitting layer is between the first electrode and the second electrode.

8. The light-emitting display device of claim 7 , wherein:

the first electrode has a conformal shape with respect to the light extraction pattern; and

the light-emitting layer has a non-conformal shape with respect to the first electrode.

9. The light-emitting display device of claim 8 , wherein the second electrode has a conformal shape with respect to the light-emitting layer.

10. The light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the opening area further comprises a non-light-emitting concave area overlapping a bottom portion of each of the plurality of concave portions in a respective pixel.

11. The light-emitting display device of claim 1 , further comprising a wavelength conversion layer between the substrate and the light extraction pattern.

12. The light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the light extraction pattern is wider than the opening area.

13. The light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of concave portions are arranged in parallel to have a predetermined interval between each other along a first direction; and

each of the plurality of concave portions are alternately arranged along a second direction crossing the first direction.

14. The light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the protruding portion surrounding one concave portion has a hexagonal shape in a plan view.

15. A light-emitting display device, comprising:

a substrate;

a plurality of pixels on the substrate, each pixel comprising an opening area;

a planarization layer comprising a light extraction pattern disposed in the opening area, the planarization layer comprising:

a plurality of concave portions spaced apart from each other; and

a protruding portion surrounding each of the plurality of concave portions;

a first electrode over the light extraction pattern;

a light-emitting layer over the first electrode, the light-emitting layer comprising:

a top portion overlapping a peak of the protruding portion; and

a curved portion inclined from the top portion; and

a second electrode over the light-emitting layer,

wherein the opening area comprises a non-emission convex area overlapping the top portion of the light-emitting layer and the peak of the protruding portion.

16. The light-emitting display device of claim 15 , wherein:

the protruding portion comprises:

a sharp portion at the peak and comprising a sharp tip structure; and

an inclined portion between the sharp portion and a bottom portion of an adjacent concave portion among the plurality of concave portions;

the top portion of the light-emitting layer is disposed over the sharp portion; and

the curved portion of the light-emitting layer is disposed over the inclined portion.

17. The light-emitting display device of claim 16 , wherein the top portion of the light-emitting layer has a convex curved-line shape over the sharp portion.

18. The light-emitting display device of claim 16 , wherein a width of the non-emission convex area corresponds to a shortest distance between one end and another end of the top portion connected to the curved portion, with respect to the sharp portion.

19. The light-emitting display device of claim 16 , wherein:

the non-emission convex area has a width W defined by the following equation:

W= 2×d×sinθ,

where ‘θ’ is an angle from 34 degrees to 60 degrees, and

where ‘d’ is the thinnest thickness of the light-emitting layer; and

‘θ’ is an angle between a perpendicular line perpendicular to a tangential line of a portion comprising the thinnest thickness of the light-emitting layer, and a vertical line passing through the sharp portion.

20. The light-emitting display device of claim 15 , wherein:

the plurality of concave portions are arranged in parallel to have a predetermined interval between each other along a first direction and

each of the plurality of concave portions are alternately arranged along a second direction crossing the first direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 13, 2021
From: LEE, NAYOUNG; JO, SOYOUNG; CHOI, MINGEUN; CHOI, YONGHOON
To: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058377/0331 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0180729 · Dec 22, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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