This application claims priority to and the benefits of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2022-0090394 under 35 U.S.C. § 119, filed on Jul. 21, 2022, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The disclosure relates to an organic material deposition device.
A process of manufacturing semiconductor devices such as various display devices includes a process of depositing a layer on a substrate. The deposition process is mainly carried out in a vacuum chamber, and a deposition mask for limiting a region to be deposited on the substrate is disposed on the substrate.
As an example of a semiconductor device, a display device may include two electrodes formed on a substrate and an emission layer positioned therebetween to form a light emitting element. Electrons injected from an electrode of the light emitting element and holes injected from another electrode are combined in an organic emission layer to form excitons. As the exciton changes from an exited state to a ground state, it can emit energy and emit light.
The display device may include multiple pixels that can emit light of different colors, and each pixel may include a light emitting element.
An emission layer of the light emitting element may include an organic material that emits light of a primary color represented by different pixels. In addition, in the display device, various insulation layers and an encapsulation layer may be formed of organic materials. For the deposition of such organic layers, a deposition mask having an opening may be disposed on the substrate. The deposition mask may be a metal mask containing a metal. A magnet may be used to proceed with the deposition process by adhering the deposition mask to the substrate.
The above information disclosed in this Background section is only for enhancement of understanding of the disclosure, and therefore it may contain information that does not form the prior art that is already known in this country to a person of ordinary skill in the art.
The disclosure provides a deposition device that can solve a defect of line patterns by controlling the magnetic force of the magnet to fix a deposition mask to a substrate in a deposition process.
A deposition device according to an embodiment may include a magnet portion including multiple magnets, and a substrate support that supports a substrate and faces the magnet portion. The substrate support may include multiple holes, and each of the holes may be disposed in the substrate support corresponding to a space between corresponding adjacent ones of the magnets.
The magnets may be arranged in a first direction, and the holes may be arranged in the first direction.
Each of the magnets may extend in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction, and each of the holes may extend in the second direction.
A center of each of the holes may be aligned with a center of the space between the corresponding adjacent ones of the magnets.
A width of each of the holes in the first direction and a width of the space between the corresponding adjacent ones of the magnets in the first direction may be same.
A width of each of the holes in the first direction may be greater than a width of the space between the corresponding adjacent ones of the magnets in the first direction.
The substrate support may further include a first plane facing the magnet portion and a second plane that is opposite to the first plane, and the holes may be formed on the second plane.
A second direction may be perpendicular to the first direction, a third direction may be perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and a depth of each of the holes in the third direction may be less than a thickness of the substrate support in the third direction.
The substrate support may be disposed between the magnet portion and the substrate.
A pitch of the magnets in the first direction and a pitch of the holes in the first direction may be same.
The deposition device may further include a deposition mask disposed below the substrate. The substrate support may be disposed between the magnet portion and the deposition mask.
The substrate support may have a magnetic property.
The substrate support may include a refrigerant.
A deposition device according to an embodiment may include a magnet portion including multiple magnets arranged in a first direction, and a substrate support including a first plane facing the magnet portion and a second plane that is opposite to the first plane. The substrate support may have a magnetic property, and the substrate support may include multiple holes formed on the first plane or the second plane and arranged in the first direction.
Each of the magnet may extend in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, and each of the holes may extend in the second direction.
A center of each of the holes may be aligned with a center of a space between corresponding adjacent ones of the magnets.
A width of each of the holes in the first direction may be equal to or greater than a width of the space between the corresponding adjacent ones of the magnets in the first direction.
A second direction may be perpendicular to the first direction, a third direction may be perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and a depth of each of the holes in the third direction may be less than a thickness of the substrate support in the third direction.
A substrate may be disposed on the second plane of the substrate support, and the substrate support may be disposed between the magnet portion and the substrate.
A deposition device according to an embodiment may include a magnet portion including multiple magnets, and a substrate support including a first plane facing the magnet portion and a second plane that is opposite to the first plane. The substrate support may include multiple holes that are formed on the first plane or the second plane and distort a magnetic force of the magnets.
According to the embodiments, the magnetic force of the magnets to fix a deposition mask to the substrate in the deposition process may be controlled, thereby solving a defect that line patterns are viewed.
Hereinafter, various embodiments of the disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawing, and thus a person of an ordinary skill in the technical field to which the disclosure belongs can readily perform it. The disclosure may be implemented in several different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein.
In order to clearly explain the disclosure, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted, and the same reference sign is designated to the same or similar constituent elements throughout the specification.
In addition, since the size and thickness of each component shown in the drawing are arbitrarily indicated for better understanding and ease of description, the disclosure is not necessarily limited to the drawings. In the drawings, the thickness of layers, films, panels, regions, and the like are exaggerated for clarity. In addition, in the drawing, the thickness of some layers and regions is exaggerated for better understanding and ease of description.
It will be understood that when an element such as a layer, film, region, or substrate is referred to as being “on” another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being “directly on” another element, there are no intervening elements present. Further, throughout the specification, the word “on” a target element will be understood to mean positioned above or below the target element, and will not necessarily be understood to mean positioned “at an upper side” based on an opposite to gravity direction. Also, when an element is referred to as being “in contact” or “contacted” or the like to another element, the element may be in “electrical contact” or in “physical contact” with another element; or in “indirect contact” or in “direct contact” with another element.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms, “a”, “an”, and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Moreover, the terms “comprises”, “comprising”, “includes”, and/or “including” when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof
Further, throughout the specification, the phrase “on a plane” or “in a plan view” means viewing a target portion from the top, and the phrase “on a cross-section” or “in a cross-sectional view” means viewing a cross-section formed by vertically cutting a target portion from the side.
Unless otherwise defined or implied herein, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used have the same meaning as commonly understood by those skilled in the art to which this disclosure pertains. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and should not be interpreted in an ideal or excessively formal sense unless clearly defined in the specification.
Hereinafter, a deposition device according to an embodiment will be described with reference to
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The magnet portion 300 may include multiple magnets 310 and a yoke plate 320.
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A y-directional pitch Pt of the magnets 310 may be a distance between a first surface of a first magnet disposed in the y direction and a first surface of a second magnet adjacent to the first magnet disposed in the y direction and corresponding to the first surface of the first magnet. A y-directional pitch Pt of the holes 331 may be a distance between a first surface of a first hole disposed in the y direction and a first surface of a second hole adjacent to the first hole disposed in the y direction and corresponding to the first surface of the first hole. The y-directional pitch Pt of the magnets 310 may be constant over the entire magnet portion 300, but is not limited thereto.
The yoke plate 320 may be for fixing the magnet 310, and may be in the form of a plate that is parallel to the x-direction and y-direction, for example, the xy plane. The yoke plate 320 may have magnetic force such that the magnet 310 can be fixed.
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The substrate support 330 may include multiple holes (also called grooves) 331. The hole 331 may be formed on the surface of the substrate support 330 facing the substrate 110. For example, in case that a surface of the substrate support 330 facing the magnet portion 300 is referred to as an upper surface and a surface of the substrate support 330 opposite to the surface is referred to as a lower surface, the hole 331 may be formed on the lower surface of the substrate support 330. In the cross-sectional view shown in
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In case that the deposition mask 200 is disposed on the substrate 110 for the deposition process, the substrate 110 may be positioned between the substrate support 330 and the deposition mask 200. In case that the magnet portion 300 is disposed on the substrate 110 with the substrate support 330 interposed between the magnet portion 300 and the substrate 110, the deposition mask 200 may be fixed in close contact with the substrate 110 by the magnetic force of the magnet 310 of the magnet portion 300.
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A depth H of the hole 331 in a z-direction may be less than a thickness of the substrate support 330 in the z-direction. For example, the hole 331 formed on the substrate support 330 may not penetrate the substrate support 330 and may be formed with a predetermined (or selectable) depth on the surface facing the substrate 110 among the surfaces of the substrate support 330.
The substrate support 330 may have a magnetic property, for example, may include a metal such as stainless steel such as SUS304. The substrate support 330 may cool the substrate 110. For this, a refrigerant may circulate inside of the substrate support 330.
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The second graph GMy shown in
According to the comparative example, the deposition mask 200C is changed (or deformed) into a wave shape that is periodically curved along the y direction by the z-directional magnetic force Mz and the y-directional magnetic force My that periodically change with upper and lower peaks, as shown in
As such, according to the comparative example in which the substrate support does not include a hole 331 as the embodiment, a periodic deviation may occur in a thickness of a film deposited on the substrate 110 by the z-directional magnetic force Mz and the y-directional magnetic force My that periodically change with upper and lower peaks and the deposition mask 200C that is changed (deformed) with a large curve in the z-direction by the magnetic forces My and Mz. Thus, a periodic deviation may occur in a thickness of an emission layer of the display device for each pixel column.
Compared to the comparative example described above, the substrate support 330 included in the deposition device according to the embodiment may have a magnetic property and may include multiple holes 331 corresponding to the space between the neighboring magnets 310, and as shown in
As shown in the first graph GMz of
In another embodiment, as shown in the second graph GMy of
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A graph that shows the intensity of the magnetic force according to the embodiment of
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A graph that shows the intensity of the magnetic force according to the embodiment of
According to the embodiment, the intensity of a z-directional magnetic force Mz and a y-directional magnetic force My at a peak portion may decrease by a hole 331 of a substrate support 330, and a width in the y direction may increase, and thus it may reduce the effect of periodic magnetic force that affects a deposition mask 200. Referring to
Thus, according to an embodiment where the substrate support 330 includes a hole 331, the magnetic force may be reduced and the degree of bending of the deposition mask 200 may be also reduced by distorting the peak portion of the z-directional magnetic force Mz and the y-directional magnetic force My. Accordingly, it may reduce deviation of a thickness of a film deposited on the substrate 110 by the deposition mask 200, thereby reducing defects in which line patterns are visually recognized.
According to embodiments, the hole 331 may be formed on a surface of the substrate support 330 facing the magnet portion 300. For example, in case that the surface facing the magnet portion 300 among the surfaces of the substrate support 330 is referred to as the upper surface and the opposite surface is referred to as the lower surface, the hole 331 may be formed on the upper surface of the substrate support 330.
The above description is an example of technical features of the disclosure, and those skilled in the art to which the disclosure pertains will be able to make various modifications and variations. Therefore, the embodiments of the disclosure described above may be implemented separately or in combination with each other.
Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the disclosure are not intended to limit the technical spirit of the disclosure, but to describe the technical spirit of the disclosure, and the scope of the technical spirit of the disclosure is not limited by these embodiments.
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10-2022-0090394 | Jul 2022 | KR | national |