IP Library Granted Patent US 7,985,968
Granted Patent B2
US 7,985,968 · App. 12/253,447 · Granted Jul 26, 2011

Display device

Assignee: Sony Corporation
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,985,968
App. No.
12/253,447
Granted
Jul 26, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a display device including: a support substrate; a drive circuit provided on the support substrate; an interlayer insulating film which covers the drive circuit; organic field light-emitting elements arranged in a display region on the interlayer insulating film; and a lead-out wiring extended from the organic field light-emitting elements to a peripheral region around the display region, wherein the interlayer insulating film includes a laminated film made up of an inorganic insulating film and organic insulating film stacked in this order, the organic insulating film has an isolation trench which surrounds the display region, the isolation trench being devoid of the organic insulating film and having the inorganic insulating film at its bottom, and the drive circuit and lead-out wiring are insulated from each other by the inorganic insulating film where the lead-out wiring crosses the isolation trench.

Claims (17)

1. A display device comprising:

a support substrate;

a drive circuit provided on the support substrate;

an interlayer insulating film which covers the drive circuit;

organic field light-emitting elements arranged in a display region on the interlayer insulating film; and

a lead-out wiring extended from the organic field light-emitting elements to a peripheral region around the display region, wherein

the interlayer insulating film includes a laminated film made up of an inorganic insulating film and organic insulating film stacked in this order,

the organic insulating film has an isolation trench which surrounds the display region, the isolation trench being devoid of the organic insulating film and having the inorganic insulating film at its bottom, and

the drive circuit and lead-out wiring are insulated from each other by the inorganic insulating film where the lead-out wiring crosses the isolation trench and by the organic insulating film on the sidewalls of the trench.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein

a wiring is provided below the isolation trench, the wiring comprising the same layer as for a gate electrode of a bottom gate thin film transistor making up the drive circuit.

3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein

insulating films making up the drive circuit are provided below the inorganic insulating film between the wiring and lead-out wiring.

4. The display device of claim 2 , wherein

at least a semiconductor layer of a thin film transistor making up the pixel circuit or an insulating film, disposed between the semiconductor layer and an electrode connected to the semiconductor layer, is provided below the inorganic insulating film between the wiring and lead-out wiring.

5. The display device of claim 1 , wherein

the drive circuit is formed with a thin film transistor which comprises a semiconductor layer made of amorphous silicon.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 17, 2008
From: YAMAMOTO, TETSURO; UCHINO, KATSUHIDE
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021697/0310 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2007-271891 · Oct 19, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090101904A1 · Apr 23, 2009