IP Library Granted Patent US 11,437,460
Granted Patent B2
US 11,437,460 · App. 16/800,652 · Granted Sep 6, 2022

Display device with substrate hole and data lines in different layers

Inventors: Hyun Ji Cha (Gwangju, KR); Yun Kyeong In (Hwaseong-si, KR); Young Soo Yoon (Seoul, KR); Min Hee Choi (Hwaseong-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
H01L27/3276H01L27/3248H01L27/3262H01L27/124
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Patent No.
US 11,437,460
App. No.
16/800,652
Granted
Sep 6, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device comprising: first and second pixels; a first data line connected to the first pixel and configured to have data voltages applied thereto; and a second data line connected to the second pixel, the second data line being adjacent to the first data line, and configured to have the data voltages applied thereto, wherein the first data line includes a 1A-th data line which is in a first data layer, and the second data line includes a 2B-th data line which is in a second data layer different from the first data layer.

Claims (49)

1. A display device comprising:

first and second pixels;

a first data line connected to the first pixel and configured to have data voltages applied thereto; and

a second data line connected to the second pixel, the second data line being adjacent to the first data line, and configured to have the data voltages applied thereto,

wherein the first data line includes a 1A-th data line in a first data layer, and

the second data line includes a 2B-th data line in a second data layer different from the first data layer,

wherein the second data line further includes a 1B-th data line in the first data layer.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the 2B-th data line is connected to the 1B-th data line through a first data contact hole which penetrates an interlayer insulating film between the 1B-th and 2B-th data lines.

3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein the 1B-th and 2B-th data lines overlap with a transistor of the first pixel.

4. The display device of claim 2 , wherein the first data contact hole overlaps with a transistor of the first pixel.

5. The display device of claim 2 , wherein the 2B-th data line is connected to the 1B-th data line through a plurality of first data contact holes which penetrate an interlayer insulating film between the 1B-th and 2B-th data lines.

6. The display device of claim 5 , wherein at least one of the plurality of first data contact holes overlaps with a transistor of the first pixel.

7. The display device of claim 2 , wherein each of the first and second pixels includes an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) which includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic light-emitting layer between the first and second electrodes, a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current to the OLED, and a first switching transistor between gate and drain electrodes of the driving transistor.

8. The display device of claim 7 , wherein the 1B-th and 2B-th data lines overlap with at least one of a gate electrode, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode of a first switching transistor of the first pixel.

9. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the first data contact hole overlaps with at least one of the gate electrode, the active layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode of the first switching transistor of the first pixel.

10. The display device of claim 7 , wherein

each of the first and second pixels further includes a first bridge electrode which connects the gate electrode of the driving transistor and a drain electrode of the first switching transistor, and

the first bridge electrode is in the first data layer.

11. The display device of claim 7 , wherein

each of the first and second pixels further includes a second switching transistor between the gate electrode of the driving transistor and an initialization voltage line configured to have an initialization voltage applied thereto, a third switching transistor between the first electrode of the OLED and the initialization voltage line, and a second bridge electrode which connects the initialization voltage line and a drain electrode of the second switching transistor, and

the second bridge electrode in the first data layer.

12. The display device of claim 11 , wherein

each of the first and second pixels further includes a fourth switching transistor between the drain electrode of the driving transistor and the first electrode of the OLED, a third bridge electrode between a drain electrode of the fourth switching transistor and the first electrode of the OLED, and a fourth bridge electrode between the third bridge electrode and the first electrode of the OLED, and

the third and fourth bridge electrodes in the first and second data layers, respectively.

13. The display device of claim 12 , wherein each of the first and second pixels further includes a fifth switching transistor between a source electrode of the driving transistor and a first power supply voltage line configured to have a first power supply voltage applied thereto and a sixth switching transistor between the first data line and the source electrode of the driving transistor or between the second data line and the source electrode of the driving transistor.

14. The display device of claim 13 , wherein the 1A-th data line is connected to a source electrode of the sixth switching transistor through a contact hole which penetrates an interlayer insulating film between the source electrode of the sixth switching transistor and the 1A-th data line.

15. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the first data line further includes a 2A-th data line as the second data layer.

16. The display device of claim 15 , wherein a 2A-th data line is connected to the 1A-th data line through a second data contact hole which penetrates an interlayer insulating film between the 1A- and 2A-th data lines.

17. The display device of claim 16 , wherein the 1A- and 2A-th data lines overlap with a transistor of the second pixel.

18. The display device of claim 16 , wherein the second data contact hole overlaps with a transistor of the second pixel.

19. A display device comprising:

first and second pixels;

a first data line connected to the first pixel and configured to have data voltages applied thereto; and

a second data line connected to the second pixel, the second data line being adjacent to the first data line, and configured to have the data voltages applied thereto,

wherein the first data line includes a 1A-th data line in a first data layer, and

the second data line includes a 2B-th data line in a second data layer different from the first data layer,

wherein the second data line further includes a first data bridge electrode in the first data layer.

20. The display device of claim 19 , wherein the first data bridge electrode is connected to a 1B-th data line through a third data contact hole which penetrates an interlayer insulating film between the 1B-th data line and the first data bridge electrode.

21. The display device of claim 20 , wherein the 1B-th data line and the first data bridge electrode overlap with a transistor of the first pixel.

22. The display device of claim 21 , wherein the third data contact hole overlaps with the transistor of the first pixel.

23. A display device comprising:

first and second pixels;

a first data line connected to the first pixel and configured to have data voltages applied thereto; and

a second data line connected to the second pixel, the second data line being adjacent to the first data line, and configured to have the data voltages applied thereto,

wherein

the first data line includes a 2A-th data line in a second data layer,

the second data line includes a 2B-th data line in the second data layer,

the 2B-th data line is connected to the second pixel through a first data bridge electrode, and

the 2A-th data line is connected to the first pixel through a second data bridge electrode.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 25, 2020
From: CHA, HYUN JI; IN, YUN KYEONG; YOON, YOUNG SOO; CHOI, MIN HEE
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 051923/0108 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2019-0023263 · Feb 27, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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