IP Library Granted Patent US 9,406,725
Granted Patent B2
US 9,406,725 · App. 14/794,197 · Granted Aug 2, 2016

Display device and method for manufacturing display device

Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP); Yoshiharu Hirakata (Kanagawa, JP); Kensuke Yoshizumi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
H01L27/3227G06F3/044G06F3/0412H01L21/82H01L27/15H01L27/322H01L27/323H01L27/3244H01L29/7869H01L51/003G06F2203/04103H01L2251/5338
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Patent No.
US 9,406,725
App. No.
14/794,197
Granted
Aug 2, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The thickness of a display device including a touch sensor is reduced. Alternatively, the thickness of a display device having high display quality is reduced. Alternatively, a method for manufacturing a display device with high mass productivity is provided. Alternatively, a display device having high reliability is provided. Stacked substrates in each of which a sufficiently thin substrate and a relatively thick support substrate are stacked are used as substrates. One surface of the thin substrate of one of the stacked substrates is provided with a layer including a touch sensor, and one surface of the thin substrate of the other stacked substrate is provided with a layer including a display element. After the two stacked substrates are attached to each other so that the touch sensor and the display element face each other, the support substrate and the thin substrate of each stacked substrate are separated from each other.

Claims (60)

1. A display device comprising:

a first substrate;

a first layer over the first substrate, the first layer including a light-emitting element;

a first conductive layer over the first substrate;

a second substrate over the first conductive layer, the second substrate being provided with a second layer including a touch sensor; and

a second conductive layer under the second substrate, the second conductive layer being electrically connected to the touch sensor,

wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are attached to each other with an adhesive layer so that the first layer and the second layer are interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate,

wherein the first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through a conductive connector in a resin layer, and

wherein each of the first substrate and the second substrate is a glass substrate.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a third layer including a color filter overlapping with the second layer.

3. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first layer further comprises a transistor being electrically connected to the light-emitting element, and

wherein the transistor comprises an oxide semiconductor in a channel formation region.

4. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the first substrate and the second substrate has a thickness of 10 μm to 200 μm.

5. A module comprising the display device according to claim 1 .

6. An electronic device comprising the display device according to claim 1 .

7. A display device comprising:

a first substrate;

a first layer over the first substrate, the first layer including a light-emitting element;

a first conductive layer over the first substrate;

a second substrate over the first conductive layer, the second substrate being provided with a second layer including a touch sensor; and

a second conductive layer under the second substrate, the second conductive layer being electrically connected to the touch sensor,

wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are attached to each other with an adhesive layer so that the first layer and the second layer are interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate,

wherein the first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through a conductive connector in a resin layer,

wherein each of the first substrate and the second substrate is a glass substrate,

wherein the adhesive layer is provided between the conductive connector and the light-emitting element,

wherein the adhesive layer is provided so as to surround the light-emitting element, and

wherein the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are electrically connected to each other outside a region surrounded by the adhesive layer.

8. A module comprising the display device according to claim 7 .

9. An electronic device comprising the display device according to claim 7 .

10. A display device comprising:

a first substrate;

a first layer over the first substrate, the first layer including a light-emitting element;

a first conductive layer over the first substrate;

a second substrate over the first conductive layer, the second substrate being provided with a second layer including a touch sensor; and

a second conductive layer under the second substrate, the second conductive layer being electrically connected to the touch sensor,

wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are attached to each other with an adhesive layer so that the first layer and the second layer are interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate,

wherein the first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through a conductive connector in a resin layer,

wherein each of the first substrate and the second substrate is a glass substrate, and

wherein the adhesive layer contains a glass material.

11. A module comprising the display device according to claim 10 .

12. An electronic device comprising the display device according to claim 10 .

13. A display device comprising:

a first substrate;

a first layer over the first substrate, the first layer including a light-emitting element;

a first conductive layer over the first substrate;

a second substrate over the first conductive layer, the second substrate being provided with a second layer including a touch sensor; and

a second conductive layer under the second substrate, the second conductive layer being electrically connected to the touch sensor,

wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are attached to each other with an adhesive layer so that the first layer and the second layer are interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate,

wherein the first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through a conductive connector in a resin layer,

wherein each of the first substrate and the second substrate is a glass substrate,

wherein the display device further comprising:

a first connection terminal over the first substrate, the first connection terminal being electrically connected to the first layer;

a second connection terminal over the first substrate, the second connection terminal being electrically connected to the first conductive layer;

a flexible printed circuit being electrically connected to each of the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal; and

a reinforcing material being in contact with the flexible printed circuit and the second substrate, and

wherein each of the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal does not overlap with the second substrate.

14. A module comprising the display device according to claim 13 .

15. An electronic device comprising the display device according to claim 13 .

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-156357 · Jul 12, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 13938532 · Jul 10, 2013
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