Patent Application
20220114355
The present application claims the priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 202011092275.4 filed to the CNIPA on Oct. 13, 2020, the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to, but are not limited to, the technical field of display, in particular to a display panel and a display apparatus.
With rapid development of display technology, the market demand for display products combining mirror and display is more and more extensive. Mirror display products may be applied not only to scenarios such as home, shopping malls, advertising, beauty and cosmetics, but also to scenarios such as car rear view mirrors.
At present, a manufacturing method of mirror display products is to manufacture a layer of highly reflective patterned metal on an encapsulation layer, which needs an extra process; and to adopt plug-in Touch Sensor Panels (TSPs) to realize touch of the mirror display products, which will increase thickness and cost of the panels. Moreover, a specular reflection material is made of highly reflective metal, which cannot realize a fingerprint identification function.
The following is a summary of the subject matter described in detail in the present disclosure. This summary is not intended to limit the protection scope of the claims.
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel including a back panel, and a fingerprint identification unit, a specular reflection film layer and a touch unit, wherein the fingerprint identification unit, the specular reflection film layer and the touch unit are disposed on the back panel, the fingerprint identification unit includes a fingerprint identification electrode layer; the touch unit includes a touch electrode layer; and the fingerprint identification electrode layer, the specular reflection film layer and the touch electrode layer are disposed in a same layer.
In an exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint identification electrode layer and the touch electrode layer are spaced by the specular reflection film layer, and the specular reflection film layer is grounded.
In an exemplary embodiment, a first spacing is disposed between the fingerprint identification electrode layer and the specular reflection film layer, and a second spacing is disposed between the specular reflection film layer and the touch electrode layer.
In an exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint identification unit further includes a fingerprint identification control circuit disposed in the back panel, and the fingerprint identification control circuit is connected with the fingerprint identification electrode layer.
In an exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint identification unit further includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer, and the fingerprint identification electrode layer is connected with the fingerprint identification control circuit through the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; the display panel is an organic light emitting diode display panel, and an organic light emitting diode is disposed in the back panel; and the second electrode layer and an anode layer of the organic light emitting diode are disposed in a same layer.
In an exemplary embodiment, a thin-film encapsulation layer is disposed between the back panel and the first electrode layer, and the first electrode layer is connected with the second electrode layer through a first via hole disposed on the thin-film encapsulation layer; and a first over coat layer is disposed between the thin-film encapsulation layer and the fingerprint identification electrode layer, and the fingerprint identification electrode layer is connected with the first electrode layer through a second via hole disposed on the first over coat layer.
In an exemplary embodiment, the touch electrode layer includes multiple first touch electrodes disposed in sequence and multiple second touch electrodes disposed in sequence; the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are staggered, and the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are configured to form a mutual capacitance structure.
In an exemplary embodiment, the touch unit includes a bridge electrode and a connection electrode; wherein the bridge electrode is configured to connect two adjacent first touch electrodes, the connection electrode is configured to connect two adjacent second touch electrodes; the bridge electrode and the first electrode layer are disposed in a same layer as, and the connection electrode and the touch electrode layer are disposed in a same layer.
In an exemplary embodiment, the organic light emitting diode further includes an emitting layer, and an orthographic projection of the emitting layer on the back panel does not overlap with orthographic projections of the fingerprint identification electrode layer, the specular reflection film layer and the touch electrode layer respectively on the back panel.
In an exemplary embodiment, the display panel further includes a color filter disposed in correspondence to the emitting layer, wherein the color filter, the fingerprint identification electrode layer, the specular reflection film layer and the touch electrode layer are disposed in a same layer.
In an exemplary embodiment, the touch electrode layer includes multiple mesh metal wires and spacer regions between the mesh metal wires, and the fingerprint identification electrode layer includes multiple fingerprint identification sub-electrodes; the color filter, the fingerprint identification sub-electrode and the specular reflection film layer are disposed in the spacer region.
In an exemplary embodiment, color filters are disposed between the mesh metal wires and the fingerprint identification sub-electrodes, and the color filters and the fingerprint identification sub-electrodes are respectively distributed in an array in the spacer regions.
In an exemplary embodiment, a second over coat layer is disposed on a side of the fingerprint identification electrode layer away from the back panel.
In an exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint identification electrode layer, the specular reflection film layer and the touch electrode layer are made of a same metal material.
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a display apparatus which includes any one of the display panels above mentioned.
Other aspects will become apparent upon reading and understanding accompanying drawings and the detailed description.
The drawings required to be used in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be briefly described as follows. It is apparent that the drawings in the following description are only one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, for those of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings may be obtained based on these drawings without paying any creative work.
The present disclosure will be further described in detail below in combination with specific embodiments and with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following embodiments serve to illustrate the present disclosure, but are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. It should be noted that embodiments in the present disclosure and features in the embodiments may be combined with each other randomly if there is no conflict.
Unless otherwise defined, technical terms or scientific terms used in one or more embodiments of the present disclosure shall have common meanings as understood by those of ordinary skills in the art to which the present disclosure pertains. The words “first”, “second” and the like used in one or more embodiments of the present disclosure do not represent any order, quantity or importance, but are merely used to distinguish among different components. A word such as “include”, “contain”, or the like, means that elements or articles preceding the word cover elements or articles listed after the word and their equivalents, and do not exclude other elements or articles. Similar words such as “connect” or “link” are not limited to physical or mechanical connections, but may include electrical connections, whether direct connections or indirect connections. “Up”, “down”, “left”, “right” and the like are merely used to indicate a relative positional relationship. Upon the change of an absolute position of a described object, the relative positional relationship may change accordingly.
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel. As shown in
In this exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21 of the fingerprint identification unit, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 are disposed in the same layer, so that all of the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 and the specular reflection film layer 3 may realize specular reflection and the fingerprint identification function of the mirror display apparatus. There is no need to use a plug-in touch sensor panel (TSP), which can reduce the thickness of the display panel and save the cost. Scattering of the mirror display is reduced by disposing the touch electrode layer 41 and the specular reflection film layer 3 in the same layer. In addition, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 are disposed in the same layer, and there is no need to manufacture a highly reflective patterned metal on the encapsulation layer as the specular reflection film layer 3, so there is no need to add an extra process, as a result the process flow is simplified.
In an exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 are disposed in the same layer, that is, distances from surfaces of the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 near the back panel 1 to the back panel 1 are the same. Alternatively, if the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 are made of a same material, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 are disposed in a same layer, that is, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 may be formed by one patterning process.
In an exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint identification unit is a capacitive fingerprint identification unit, and a specific structure of the capacitive fingerprint identification unit is not limited in the embodiments of the present disclosure, as long as the fingerprint identification unit includes the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21 configured to perform capacitance sensing.
In one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
In an exemplary embodiment, as shown in
In one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
In an exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint recognition control circuit 24 is a thin film transistor (TFT).
In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, the display panel is an organic light emitting diode display panel, and the back panel 1 is provided with an organic light emitting diode. As shown in
In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a thin-film encapsulation (TFE) layer 6 is disposed between the back panel 1 and the first electrode layer 22, and is configured to isolate moisture and oxygen in the air to prevent water and oxygen from entering the display panel to erode the emitting layer which may cause a problem of degradation of luminescent efficiency of an electroluminescent material, thereby prolonging the service life of the emitting layer. The first electrode layer 22 is connected with the second electrode layer 23 by passing through the thin-film encapsulation layer 6. In an exemplary embodiment, the thin-film encapsulation layer 6 is provided with a first via hole, and the first electrode layer 22 is connected with the second electrode layer 23 through the first via hole.
In an exemplary embodiment, a first over coat (OC) layer 7 is disposed between the thin-film encapsulation layer 6 and the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, that is, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 are all disposed on a side of the first over coat layer 7 away from the thin-film encapsulation layer 6. The first over coat layer 7 is provided with a second via hole, and the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21 is connected with the first electrode layer 22 through the second via hole disposed on the first over coat layer 7. The first over coat layer 7 is a film that may insulate and space the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3, the touch electrode layer 41 from a conductive film layer in the back panel 1, and a material of the first over coat layer 7 may be selected according to actual needs, which is not limited by the embodiments of the present disclosure. In an exemplary embodiment, a second over coat layer 8 is disposed on a side of the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21 away from the back panel 1, and the second over coat layer 8 may be served as a protective layer to protect the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 from being damaged.
In an exemplary embodiment, the back panel 1 may further include one or more layers of a base substrate (Polyimide, shorted as PI) 11, a buffer layer 12, a gate insulating (GI) layer 13, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer 14, a source-drain (SD) layer 15, a planarization (PLN) layer 16, and a pixel define layer (PDL) 17 and other film layers.
In one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
In an exemplary embodiment, the first touch electrode 411 is a touch driving electrode (Tx), and the second touch electrode 412 is a touch sensing electrode (Rx). In a touch time period, by applying a touch driving signal to each touch driving electrode (Tx) and a touch sensing signal to each touch sensing electrode (Rx), when there is a touch operation, capacitance between the touch driving electrode (Tx) and the touch sensing electrode (Rx) changes, and a position sensing signal is generated on the touch sensing electrode (Rx), and is transmitted to the touch control circuit of the touch unit, and position coordinates of a touch point are determined by the touch control circuit of the touch unit according to the position sensing signal. Or, by loading a touch driving signal to each touch sensing electrode (Rx) and applying a touch sensing signal to each touch driving electrode (Tx), the touch driving electrodes (Tx) are connected with the touch control circuit, thus the position coordinates of the touch point are determined according to the position sensing signal output by the touch sensing electrodes (Tx), thereby realizing the touch function.
In an exemplary embodiment, the touch unit further includes a bridge electrode 42 and a connection electrode 43, wherein the bridge electrode 42 is configured to connect two adjacent first touch electrodes 411, and the connection electrode is configured to connect two adjacent second touch electrodes 412; the bridge electrode 42 is disposed in a same layer as the first electrode layer 22, and the connection electrode is disposed in a same layer as the touch electrode layer 41. As shown in
In an exemplary embodiment, as shown in
In an exemplary embodiment, the first touch electrode 411 and the second touch electrode 412 may have a structure with other shapes other than rectangular structure, and their sizes may be adjusted as required. In the present exemplary embodiment, specific shapes and sizes of the first touch electrodes 411 and the second touch electrodes 412 are not limited as long as the touch unit includes the touch electrode layer 41 configured to perform touch sensing.
In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, the organic light emitting diode further includes an emitting (EL) layer 10, and an orthographic projection of the emitting layer 10 on the back panel 1 does not overlap with orthographic projections of the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 respectively on the back panel 1. The fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 are all metal film layers, and an opening is reserved at a position corresponding to the emitting layer 10, so that the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 will not block the emitting layer 10, and thus the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 will not affect an original display effect of the organic light emitting diode.
In an exemplary embodiment, the display panel further includes a color filter 9 disposed in correspondence to the emitting layer 10, and the emitting layer 10 is filtered by the color filter 9 to make the display effect of the organic light emitting diode better. The color filter 9 is disposed in a same layer as the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41.
In an exemplary embodiment, the color filter 9, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 are disposed in the same layer, that is, distances from surfaces of the color filter 9, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 near the back panel 1 to the back panel 1 are the same. However, since the material of the color filter 9 is generally different from those of the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 and the specular reflection film layer 3, patterns of the color filter 9, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 may not be formed by one patterning process, but the pattern of the color filter 9 may be formed after the patterns of the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the touch electrode layer 41 of the touch unit and the specular reflection film layer 3 are formed.
In an exemplary embodiment, the color filters are disposed in a one-to-one correspondence with the emitting layers 10.
As shown in
In an exemplary embodiment, the color filters 9 are disposed between the mesh metal wires and the fingerprint identification sub-electrodes, and the color filters 9 and the fingerprint identification sub-electrodes are respectively distributed in an array in the spacer regions.
As shown in
In an exemplary embodiment, a red filter 901, a blue filter 902, and a green filter 903 which correspond to a pixel unit are disposed in correspondence to a fingerprint identification sub-electrode, which means that the positions are disposed in a one-to-one correspondence and adjacent to each other. In an exemplary embodiment, a red filter 901, a blue filter 902, and a green filter 903 which correspond to a pixel unit are disposed in correspondence to a fingerprint identification sub-electrode, which means that the areas, sizes or dimensions are disposed in a one-to-one correspondence.
As shown in
In an exemplary embodiment, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 are made of a same metal material which is a highly reflective metal material, so that the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 may all realize specular reflection, and the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21 and the touch electrode layer 41 may also realize a conductive function. In an exemplary embodiment, the highly reflective metal material may be a metal such as Ag, or Al. As the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 are disposed in a same layer and made of a same metal material, they may be completed by one Mask process during manufacturing, which simplifies the process flow.
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a manufacturing method of a display panel for realizing the manufacturing of the display panel of any one of the aforementioned embodiments, including the following acts S101-S107.
In act S101, a back panel 1 is formed.
In this act, the back panel 1 includes organic light emitting diodes. A fingerprint identification control circuit 24 of a fingerprint identification unit when forming a pixel circuit of the organic light emitting diode. A second electrode layer 23 is formed when an anode layer 171 of the organic light emitting diode is formed.
In act S102, a thin-film encapsulation layer 6 is formed on the back panel 1, and a first via hole is opened at a position of the thin-film encapsulation layer 6 corresponding to the second electrode layer 23.
In act S103, a first electrode layer 22 and a bridge electrode 42 are formed.
In this act, a metal layer on is deposed on the thin-film encapsulation layer 6, and patterns of the first electrode layer 22 and the bridge electrode 42 are formed after exposure and etching, wherein, the first electrode layer 22 is connected with the second electrode layer 23 through the first via hole; a bridge connection between two adjacent first touch electrodes 411 is realized through the bridge electrode 42.
In act S104, a first over coat layer 7 is formed, and a second via hole is opened at a position of the first over coat layer 7 corresponding to the first electrode layer 22.
In act S105, a fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, a specular reflection film layer 3 and a touch electrode layer 41 are formed.
In this act, a metal thin film is formed on the first over coat layer 7, and patterns of the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 are formed by one patterning process, which simplifies the process. The fingerprint identification electrode layer 21 is connected with the first electrode layer 22 through the second via hole, thereby realizing a fingerprint identification function. The specular reflection film layer 3 is grounded and serves as a shielding layer to space a first region from a third region. The touch electrode layer 41 includes first touch electrodes 411 and second touch electrodes 412 which are staggered. The first touch electrode 411 is connected with a bridge electrode 42 on a lower layer, and a bridge connection between two adjacent first touch electrodes 411 is realized through the bridge electrode 42. A connection electrode 43 is also disposed in a same layer as the touch electrode layer 41, and two adjacent second touch electrodes 412 are connected through the connection electrode 43. The touch function is realized through the first touch electrodes 411, the second touch electrodes 412, the bridge electrodes 42, the connection electrodes 43 and other structures. In an exemplary embodiment, deposition, coating, sputtering, etc. may generally be used to form thin films.
The above-mentioned operations of forming layers include but are not limited to (chemical phase, physical phase) deposition and (magnetron) sputtering, and those skilled in the art can understand that after each layer is formed, corresponding patterns may be further formed on it as required, which is not described in detail in the present disclosure.
In act S106, color filters 9 are manufactured to form a color film layer, and the color filter 9, the fingerprint identification electrode layer 21, the specular reflection film layer 3 and the touch electrode layer 41 are disposed in a same layer.
In act S107, a second over coat layer 8 is formed to protect the display panel.
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a display apparatus, which includes the display panel of any one of the aforementioned embodiments.
Those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that the discussion of any of the above embodiments is only exemplary, and is not intended to imply that the scope of the disclosure (including the claims) is limited to these embodiments. Under the idea of the present disclosure, the technical features in the above embodiments or different embodiments may also be combined, the acts may be realized in any order, and there are many other changes in different aspects of one or more embodiments of the present disclosure as mentioned above, which are not provided in details for brevity.
In addition, in order to simplify the description and discussion, commonly-known power/ground connections with integrated circuit (IC) chips and other components may or may not be shown in the provided drawings for easily understanding one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. In addition, an apparatus may be shown in a form of block diagrams in order to avoid making one or more embodiments of the present disclosure difficult to understand. Moreover a fact below is also taken into account that details of implementations of these apparatus shown in block diagrams are highly dependent on a platform on which one or more embodiments of the present disclosure will be implemented (i.e., these details should be completely within an understanding range of those skilled in the art). In a case where specific details (e.g., circuits) have been set forth to describe exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that one or more embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented without these specific details or with variations in these specific details. Therefore, these descriptions should be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive.
Although the present disclosure has been described in conjunction with specific embodiments thereof, many substitutions, amendments and variations of these embodiments will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art according to the foregoing description. For example, other memory architectures, such as a dynamic RAM (DRAM) may be used in the discussed embodiments.
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure are intended to cover all such substitutions, amendments and variations that fall within a broad scope of the appended claims. Therefore, any omission, amendment, equivalent substitutions, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of one or more embodiments of the present disclosure shall be included in a protection scope of the present disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 202011092275.4 | Oct 2020 | CN | national |
