This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202110713392.6 filed Jun. 25, 2021, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular to, a display panel and a display device.
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) is used as a light emitting element for an organic light emitting display device. As the OLED has a self-luminous characteristic, no additional light source is needed for the organic light emitting display device, which is conductive to the overall lightening and thinning of the display device and the manufacture of a flexible display screen. In addition, the organic self-luminous display technology also has the characteristics of a fast response speed, a wide viewing angle and the like, and thus has become a focus of a current research.
When an organic light emitting display panel is manufactured, a pixel circuit and the organic light emitting diode are sequentially manufactured on a substrate, which causes that the organic light emitting diode is manufactured on a surface which is not flat, leading to a scattering problem of the display panel, and affecting the display quality.
The present disclosure provides a display panel. The display panel includes a substrate, a pixel defining layer, a light emitting unit and a first metal layer.
The pixel defining layer is located on a side of the substrate and includes multiple pixel openings arranged in an array. The light emitting unit is located within a pixel opening of the multiple pixel openings and includes a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a second electrode which are sequentially laminated in a light emitting direction of the display panel. The first metal layer is located on a side of the first electrode facing the substrate. The first metal layer includes multiple first metal portions, a vertical projection of a first metal portion on the substrate overlaps with a vertical projection of the first electrode on the substrate, and the first metal portion is provided with multiple first grooves extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction within a plane parallel to the substrate.
The present disclosure further provides a display device, which includes the display panel described above.
In order to more clearly explain the embodiments of the present disclosure or the technical schemes in the related art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the description of the related art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present disclosure. For those of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings may also be obtained without creative labor according to these drawings.
In order to make the purposes, technical schemes and advantages of embodiments of the present disclosure clearer, the technical schemes in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be described clearly and completely below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Apparently, the described embodiments are merely part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, rather than all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. All other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without requiring creative efforts shall all fall within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.
The terminology used in the embodiments of the present disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. As used in the embodiments of the present disclosure and the appended claims, the singular form such as “a,” “an,” and “the” are intended to include the plural form as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
In order to increase the flatness of the first electrode 01, a metal portion 04 is generally added below the first electrode 01, the metal portion 04 may provide a relatively flat substrate for the manufacture of the first electrode 01, so that the manufactured first electrode 01 is formed with a relatively flat surface; whereby a scattering phenomenon of light emitted by the light emitting unit and a scattering phenomenon of the first electrode 01 on the reflected ambient light may be ameliorated, the scattering problem of the display panel may be resolved, and thus the quality of the display panel may be improved. However, as shown in
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When a subsequent film layer is manufactured on a surface of the metal portion 4, a first grid structure is formed between two adjacent first grooves 41, each first grid structure is in contact with the organic material to generate a separate organic film pattern, and when two adjacent first grid structures are gradually reduced, a mutually interfering portion of regions of adjacent organic film pattern is increased, whereby the flatness of the upper surface of the organic layer is improved.
As an embodiment, the first grooves 41 may penetrate through the first metal portion 4 (as shown in
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As an embodiment, a width of the first metal strip-shaped structure is inversely proportional to an arrangement density of the first metal strip-shaped structures in the second direction Y, that is, the width of the first metal strip-shaped structure is the wider, the arrangement density of the first metal strip-shaped structures is the smaller, and the width of the first metal strip-shaped structure is the narrower, the arrangement density of the first metal strip-shaped structures is the larger. As an embodiment, the first metal strip-shaped structures are arranged in a high-density manner, and the high-density means that the arrangement density of the first metal strip-shaped structures is at least larger than a maximum value of an arrangement density of the metal signal wires 5 below the first metal strip-shaped structures. Therefore, an interfering portion of regions of the upper adjacent organic film pattern is increased, and thus the flatness of the upper surface of the organic layer is further improved.
As an embodiment, as shown in
In a case where the density of the first metal strip-shaped structure is not enough to flatten all organic layer segment differences, by providing a certain angle formed between the first direction X and the pixel column direction in the display region, a certain angle may be formed between an extending direction of a fluctuating region of the organic layer and the pixel column direction in the display region, that is, a certain angle is formed between an extending direction of both a fluctuating region of the first electrode 31 and the light emitting layer 32 above and the pixel column direction in the display region, which enables that when the user views the display panel at the front viewing angle in practice, a probability that scattered light emitted by the light emitting unit is captured by the eyes of the user is reduced, whereby the influence of the scattered light of the light emitting unit on the display effect is weakened, and thus the display quality is improved.
As an embodiment, a surface on a side of the first metal portion 4 facing away from the substrate 1 includes multiple second grooves which extend in the second direction and are arranged in the first direction. At least part of the first grooves 41 and at least part of the second grooves are crossed to form a grid. The first grooves 41 and the second grooves are cooperated with each other, so that an upper surface of the first metal portion 4 is changed into a net-grid form from a stripe-grid form, mutual interference portions of regions of organic film patterns may be increased, an organic film pattern with a flatter surface may be formed, an segment difference of an organic layer above the whole metal grid may be further reduced, and thus the flatness of the upper surface of the organic layer is improved, whereby a scattering phenomenon of light emitted by the light emitting unit and a scattering phenomenon of the first electrode 31 on the reflected ambient light may be ameliorated, the scattering problem of the display panel may be resolved, and thus the quality of the display panel is improved.
As an embodiment, at least part of the multiple second grooves penetrate through the first metal portion 4 in a direction perpendicular to the substrate 1. When the first grooves and the second grooves completely penetrate through the first metal portion 4, the first metal portion 4 is in a form of multiple discrete metal dot matrixes arranged in an array. On the basis of a same principle, as shown in
In a case where the first metal strip-shaped structure and the second metal strip-shaped structure form the grid, in an embodiment, the first metal strip-shaped structure and the second metal strip-shaped structure are arranged in a high-density manner, so that an interfering portion of regions of the upper organic film patterns is increased, and thus the flatness of the upper surface of the organic layer is further improved, whereby a scattering phenomenon of light emitted by the light emitting element and a scattering phenomenon of the first electrode 31 on the reflected ambient light may be ameliorated, the scattering problem of the display panel may be resolved, and thus the quality of the display panel is improved.
As an embodiment, the display panel further includes a driver circuit layer. The driver circuit layer is manufactured on the substrate 1 and located below the light emitting layer, and the driver circuit layer includes multiple thin film transistors. In an embodiment, an active layer of the thin film transistor in the driver circuit layer includes silicon, and the thin film transistor is a low-temperature polycrystalline silicon transistor. In another embodiment, an active layer of drive transistors in the driver circuit layer includes silicon, and an active layer of part of switching transistors in the driver circuit layer include metal oxide. For better flatness, no metal layer is arranged between the first metal layer and the first electrode 31. In a case where a certain metal layer in the driver circuit layer below the light emitting layer is also served as the first metal layer, a metal layer closest to the first electrode 31 is also served as the first metal layer. That is, no metal layer process is performed after the process of the first metal layer and before the manufacture of the first electrode 31 of the light emitting unit, and no other metal structure on top of the first metal layer affects the flatness of the substrate under the first electrode 31. After an organic insulating layer is manufactured on the first metal layer, a relatively flat substrate may be provided for manufacturing the first electrode 31, so that the first electrode 31 is manufactured with a better flatness, whereby a scattering phenomenon of light emitted by the light emitting element and a scattering phenomenon of the first electrode 31 on the reflected ambient light may be ameliorated, the scattering problem of the display panel is improved, and thus the display effect is improved.
As an embodiment, as shown in
The second metal portion 6 includes multiple third grooves 61 which extend in a third direction and are arranged in a fourth direction, and the third direction and the fourth direction intersect within the plane parallel to the substrate. The third direction may be in a same direction with the first direction X, and in an embodiment, the third direction may also intersect the first direction X within the plane parallel to the substrate. It is only used as an example in
As an embodiment, at least part of the multiple third grooves 61 penetrate through the second metal portion 6 in a direction perpendicular to the substrate 1, and two adjacent third grooves 61 penetrating through the second metal portion 6 divide the second metal portion 6 into multiple third metal strip-shaped structures which extend in the third direction and arranged in the fourth direction. In an embodiment, an arrangement density of the third metal strip-shaped structures is different from the arrangement density of the first metal strip-shaped structures, or the arrangement density of the third metal strip-shaped structures is different from the arrangement density of the second metal strip-shaped structures, so that an interfering portion of regions of organic film patterns above the first metal portion 4 and an interfering portion of regions of organic film patterns above the second metal portion 6 are staggered, so that the flatness of the upper surface of the organic layer is further improved, whereby a scattering phenomenon of light emitted by the light emitting unit and a scattering phenomenon of the first electrode 31 on the reflected ambient light may be ameliorated, the scattering problem of the display panel may be resolved, and thus the quality of the display panel may be improved.
As an embodiment, the display panel further includes a driver circuit layer, the driver circuit layer is manufactured on the substrate 1 and located below the light emitting layer, and the driver circuit layer includes multiple thin film transistors. The driver circuit layer at least includes a third metal layer 7 and a fourth metal layer 8, and the fourth metal layer 8 is located on a side of the third metal layer 7 facing the pixel defining layer 2. The first metal layer 4 may be located between the fourth metal layer 8 and the first electrode 31 (as shown in
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As an embodiment, as shown in
The light filtering unit 91 may transmit visible light with a wavelength in a specific wavelength range, for example, a red light filtering unit may transmit red light, a green light filtering unit may transmit green light, and a blue light filtering unit may transmit blue light, that is, the light filtering unit 91 can prevent light with a wavelength within a wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range from being transmitted, and can reduce light amount of the ambient light taken into the display panel, whereby the reflection of the first electrode 31 to the ambient light is reduced, that is, the reflection of the display panel to the ambient light is reduced. The light shielding portion 92 is located between two adjacent light filtering units 91. The light shielding portion 92 may block light and avoid crosstalk between lights emitted from adjacent light emitting units. Therefore, it can be understood that the first opening 93 on the light shielding portion 92 defines a light emitting area of a corresponding light emitting unit.
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Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a display device.
In the above description, merely the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure are described, which should not be considered as limitations of the present disclosure, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the principle of the present disclosure should be included within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical schemes of the present disclosure, and are not intended to limit the present disclosure. Although in the present disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical schemes recited in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of technical features may be equivalently substituted; and these modifications or substitutions do not make the essence of a corresponding technical scheme deviate from the scope of the technical scheme of the embodiments of the present disclosure.
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202110713392.6 | Jun 2021 | CN | national |