Cover window and display apparatus including the same

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display panel configured to provide an image; and

a cover window on the display panel,

wherein the cover window comprises:

a window substrate comprising polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF); and

a hard coating layer directly contacting at least one surface of the window substrate, and wherein the window substrate comprises a copolymer of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and the PVDF.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:

an input sensing layer between the display panel and the cover window and comprising a plurality of sensing electrodes and a plurality of trace lines electrically connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes; and

an adhesive layer between the input sensing layer and the cover window.

3. The display apparatus of claim 2 ,

wherein a relative permittivity of the adhesive layer is greater than a relative permittivity of the window substrate.

4. The display apparatus of claim 2 ,

wherein a thickness of the adhesive layer has a value from about 100 μm to about 300 μm.

5. The display apparatus of claim 1 ,

wherein a relative permittivity of the window substrate has a value from about 3 to about 6, and

wherein a thickness of the window substrate has a value from about 100 μm to about 650 μM.

6. The display apparatus of claim 1 ,

wherein the hard coating layer has a thickness having a value from about 10 μm to about 50 μm and has a hardness greater than that of the window substrate.

7. The display apparatus of claim 1 ,

wherein the sum of a thickness of the window substrate and a thickness of the hard coating layer has a value from about 150 μm to about 700 μm.

8. A display apparatus comprising:

a display panel configured to provide an image;

a window substrate disposed on the display panel and comprising a copolymer of a first polymer resin and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF),

wherein a relative permittivity of the window substrate has a value from about 3 to about 6; and

a first hard coating layer on the window substrate,

wherein the first hard coating layer includes a fluorine-based compound, and

wherein the window substrate is disposed between the display panel and the first hard coating layer, and

wherein the first polymer resin includes polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).

9. The display apparatus of claim 8 ,

wherein a thickness of the window substrate has a value from about 100 μm to about 650 μm, and

wherein a thickness of the first hard coating layer has a value from about 10 μm to about 50 μm.

10. The display apparatus of claim 8 , further comprising:

an optical function layer between the window substrate and the display panel;

an input sensing layer between the optical function layer and the display panel; and

an adhesive layer between the optical function layer and the window substrate,

wherein the adhesive layer attaches the window substrate and the optical function layer with each other.

11. The display apparatus of claim 10 ,

wherein a relative permittivity of the adhesive layer is greater than the relative permittivity of the window substrate, and

wherein a thickness of the adhesive layer has a value from about 100 μm to about 300 μm.

12. The display apparatus of claim 10 , further comprising:

a second hard coating layer between the window substrate and the display panel,

wherein the second hard coating layer may include polysilsesquioxane or an acrylic polymer material, and a conductive polymer, and

wherein a thickness of the second hard coating layer is smaller than that of the first hard coating layer.

13. The display apparatus of claim 12 ,

wherein the thickness of the second hard coating layer has a value from about 5 μm to about 10 μm.