Patent Application
20180175318
The present disclosure relates to a display substrate and an OLED display device.
Since Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) have advantages of simple structure, fast response speed, low power consumption and self-luminous, display devices manufactured with OLEDs have excellent display performance.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display substrate, comprising a water absorbing structure disposed on the display substrate, the water absorbing structure being configured to be capable of absorbing moisture in the display substrate.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, the water absorbing structure comprises at least one functional layer in the display substrate and the at least one functional layer contains a desiccant.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, the at least one functional layer comprises a spacer in the display substrate.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, the display substrate comprises a display area, and the spacer is disposed in the display area.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, the display substrate comprises a pixel definition layer, and the spacer is disposed on the pixel definition layer.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, the at least one functional layer comprises a pixel definition layer of the display substrate.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, the desiccant is physical adsorption particles.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, the desiccant is nanometer silica gel particles.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, a volume concentration of the desiccant in the at least one functional layer is from 1% to 8%.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, the at least one functional layer comprises a spacer and a pixel definition layer of the display substrate.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provide an OLED display device, comprising the above described display substrate.
In order to clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the disclosure, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described in the following, it is obvious that the described drawings are only related to some embodiments of the disclosure and thus are not limitative of the disclosure.
In order to make objects, technical details and advantages of the embodiments of the disclosure apparent, the technical solutions of the embodiment will be described in a clearly and fully understandable way in connection with the drawings related to the embodiments of the disclosure. It is obvious that the described embodiments are just a part but not all of the embodiments of the disclosure. Based on the described embodiments herein, those skilled in the art can obtain other embodiment(s), without any inventive work, which should be within the scope of the disclosure.
Unless otherwise defined, all the technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meanings as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the present disclosure belongs. The terms “first,” “second,” etc., which are used in the description and the claims of the present application for disclosure, are not intended to indicate any sequence, amount or importance, but distinguish various components. Also, the terms such as “a,” “an,” etc., are not intended to limit the amount, but indicate the existence of at least one.
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Since the organic luminescent material in the organic luminescent unit 211 is very sensitive to moisture, the presence of trace moisture would cause severe degradation or even complete failure of light emission quality. Therefore, very low moisture content must be kept inside the OLED display device, which is generally realized by engaging and then sealing the encapsulation substrate 10 and the display substrate 20 in a vacuum environment. However, such an encapsulation technology can only prevent external moisture from intruding, and has no blocking effect for moisture already adsorbed in the layer structure of the display substrate 20 before the encapsulation. The moisture adsorbed in these layer structures, particularly the pixel definition layer will be released in subsequent manufacturing and operation process of the display substrate and will influence the performance of the organic luminescent unit 211, resulting in severe degradation or even complete failure of light emission quality, and in turn impacting the light emission performance of the OLED device and shortening the service life of the OLED device.
An embodiments of the present invention provides a display substrate including a water absorbing structure (drying structure) disposed on the display substrate that may absorb moisture in the display substrate.
For example, the water absorbing structure may be a drying layer capable of absorbing moisture disposed on the display substrate, or may be formed by adding desiccants in a layer structure existing in the display substrate.
In the above-mentioned first case, namely disposing a special drying layer on the display substrate, the drying layer may be disposed at any position on the display substrate, for example, other existing functional layers.
In the above-mentioned second case, the water absorbing structure is one or more functional layers of the display substrate such as a spacer, the pixel definition layer and the insulating layer. In this approach, an existing structure on the display substrate is directly used, thereby omitting the additionally disposed water absorbing structure, which realizes the effect of absorbing moisture on the display substrate without increasing the overall thickness of the display substrate. For example, as shown in
In embodiments of the present invention, by providing a water absorbing structure in the display substrate, moisture released during the manufacturing and operation process of the display substrate is absorbed by the water absorbing structure, which reduces the influence of moisture in the display substrate on the organic luminescent unit, improves the performance of the OLED display device and prolongs the service life of the OLED display device.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a display substrate. Referring to
For example, the water absorbing structure is one or more functional layers in the display substrate which contain desiccant. The one or more functional layers are film or layer structures for realizing certain functions disposed on the display substrate. For example, with reference to
Further, with reference to
The spacer 412 is mixed with desiccant therein. The desiccant may be physical adsorption desiccant or chemical adsorption desiccant, which is not limited in embodiments of the present invention. Since the moisture absorbed in physical adsorption particles may be released in high temperature baking processes, which facilitates subsequent further adsorption of moisture, physical adsorption particles are preferably selected as the desiccant.
A water absorbing structure may be obtained by adding desiccant into spacers that are already present in the display substrate. In this case, the purpose of absorbing moisture in the display substrate is realized without adding any extra structures. Such a structure is easy to implement and convenient to manufacture.
Further, with reference to
For example, with reference to
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It is to be noted that, as shown in
For example, since silica gel particles have a good moisture absorption effect and a steady property and are easy to obtain, silica gel particles may be selected as the desiccant. Furthermore, in order to dope silica gel particles uniformly in spacers and adapt to the manufacturing process of layer structures of the display substrate, the silica gel particles should not have large size, which is generally on the nanometer order. That is, the size of the silica gel particles is from 1 nm to 100 nm. For example, the desiccant is nanometer silica gel particles.
Optionally, the mixture concentration of desiccant in the functional layer is from 1% to 8%. For example, when the functional layer is the spacers, the volume ratio of desiccant in the spacers to the spacers is from 1% to 8%. Alternatively, when the functional layer is the pixel definition layer, the volume ratio of the desiccant in the pixel definition layer to the pixel definition layer is from 1% to 8%. In view of the content of moisture absorbed in the display substrate and the manufacturing process of layer structures in the display substrate, generally, the concentration of desiccant mixed in the functional layers is controlled to be from 1% to 8% to obtain a good absorption effect.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides an OLED display device including any one of the above-mentioned display substrates. The display device may be a display panel, a display, a cell phone, a TV set, a notebook computer or an all-in-one computer. Other indispensable constituents for the display device are all those understood to have by one skilled in the art, which will not be described any more herein nor serve as any limitation to the present invention.
It is to be noted that the display substrate mainly refers to the array substrate in embodiments of
As compared to a conventional display substrate, with embodiments of the present invention, by providing a water absorbing structure in the display substrate, moisture released during the manufacturing and operation process of the display substrate is absorbed with the water absorbing structure, which reduces the influence of moisture in the display substrate on the organic luminescent unit, improves the performance of the OLED display device and prolongs the service life of the OLED display device.
What are described above is related to the illustrative embodiments of the disclosure only and not limitative to the scope of the disclosure; the scopes of the disclosure are defined by the accompanying claims.
The present application claims the priority of the Chinese Patent Application No. 201610321651.X filed on May 16, 2016, which is incorporated herein by reference as part of the disclosure of the present application.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201610321651.X | May 2016 | CN | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/CN2017/083710 | 5/10/2017 | WO | 00 |
