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US 12,543,474 · App. 17/913,295 · Granted Feb 3, 2026

Light-emitting substrate and light-emitting device

Inventor: Dong Li (Beijing, CN)
Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.; BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
H10K59/805H10K50/115H10K59/122H10K59/8794
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Patent No.
US 12,543,474
App. No.
17/913,295
Granted
Feb 3, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a light-emitting substrate and a light-emitting device. The light-emitting substrate includes: a first electrode layer on a base substrate; a pixel definition layer arranged on a part of the first electrode layer and a part of the base substrate not covered by the first electrode layer, the pixel definition layer including at least two pixel definition aperture regions and a non-pixel aperture region other than the pixel definition aperture regions, the non-pixel aperture region being arranged with a groove on a side surface away from the base substrate, and a first thermally-conductive member being arranged in the groove; a first functional layer, a light-emitting layer and a second functional layer arranged in the pixel definition aperture regions; and a second electrode covering the second functional layer and the pixel definition layer, the second electrode being coupled to the first thermally-conductive member.

Claims (17)

1 . A light-emitting substrate, comprising:

a first electrode layer on a base substrate;

a pixel definition layer arranged on a part of the first electrode layer and a part of the base substrate not covered by the first electrode layer, the pixel definition layer comprising at least two pixel definition aperture regions and a non-pixel aperture region other than the pixel definition aperture regions, the non-pixel aperture region being arranged with a groove on a side surface away from the base substrate, and a first thermally-conductive member being arranged in the groove;

a first functional layer, a light-emitting layer and a second functional layer arranged in the pixel definition aperture regions; and

a second electrode covering the second functional layer and the pixel definition layer, the second electrode being coupled to the first thermally-conductive member;

wherein the light-emitting substrate comprises a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region, and the second electrode at least partially covers the non-display region not covered by the pixel definition layer, wherein the light-emitting substrate further comprises a second thermally-conductive layer arranged on a side of the base substrate away from the first electrode layer, the base substrate is provided in the non-display region with a thermally-conductive through-hole extending from a side of the base substrate close to the first electrode layer to a side away from the first electrode layer, a second thermally-conductive member is arranged in the thermally-conductive through-hole, and a part of the second electrode covering the non-display region is coupled to the second thermally-conductive layer via the second thermally-conductive member.

2 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the first thermally-conductive member is made of a metallic material and/or a graphene-based carbon material.

3 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the first electrode layer comprises a plurality of first electrode patterns arranged in an array form, an orthogonal projection of the groove onto the base substrate is located between orthogonal projections of adjacent first electrode patterns onto the base substrate, a depth of the groove in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate is less than a thickness of the pixel definition layer in the direction perpendicular to the base substrate, and the first thermally-conductive member in the groove is not in contact with the first electrode pattern adjacent to the groove.

4 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the first thermally-conductive member is arranged at a same layer and made of a same material as the second electrode, the second electrode conformally covers the non-pixel aperture region, the second functional layer and the groove, and the first thermally-conductive member is formed by a part of the second electrode conformally covering the groove.

5 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the first thermally-conductive member is arranged at a same layer and made of a same material as the second electrode, the second electrode covers the non-pixel aperture region, the second functional layer and the groove, a side surface of the second electrode away from the base substrate is a planar surface, and a part of the second electrode in the groove is the first thermally-conductive member.

6 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the first thermally-conductive member is arranged at a layer different from the second electrode, the groove is filled up with the first thermally-conductive member, the second electrode covers the non-pixel aperture region, the second functional layer and the first thermally-conductive member, and the first thermally-conductive member is made of a material identical to or different from the second electrode.

7 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the second electrode is covered with a first thermally-conductive layer at a side away from the base substrate, and the first thermally-conductive layer has thermal conductivity greater than the second electrode; and/or the second electrode comprises a composite thin film made of an electrically conductive silver paste and a highly thermally-conductive material having thermal conductivity greater than the electrically conductive silver paste.

8 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 7 , wherein the first thermally-conductive layer is made of a graphene-based carbon material, and the composite thin film is made of an electrically conductive silver paste and a graphene-based carbon material.

9 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the second thermally-conductive member is made of a thermally-conductive metallic material and/or a thermally-conductive graphene material.

10 . The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a quantum-dot light-emitting layer.

11 . A light-emitting device, comprising the light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 .

12 . The light-emitting device according to claim 11 , wherein the first thermally-conductive member is made of a metallic material and/or a graphene-based carbon material.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 21, 2022
From: LI, DONG
To: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.; BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 061168/0051 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202110525627.9 · May 13, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240215419A1 · Jun 27, 2024
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