The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, in particular to a display substrate, a display panel and a display device.
With the rapid development of smart phones, not only is an attractive appearance required for the phones, they also need to bring a better visual experience for users of the phones. Major manufacturers have started to increase the screen-to-body ratio of smart phones, making a full-screen a new competitive point for the smart phones. With the development of full-screen technology, the demand for improvement in performance and functionality is increasing day by day. An under-panel camera can bring a sense of impact in vision and user experience to some extent without affecting a high screen-to-body ratio.
In an aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides an display substrate, including:
a base substrate, a display area of the base substrate includes a first display area and a second display area, a light transmittance of the first display area is greater than a light transmittance of the second display area;
a plurality of light-emitting devices arranged in an array on the base substrate, the plurality of light-emitting devices including a plurality of first light-emitting devices located in the first display area and a plurality of second light-emitting devices located in the second display area;
a plurality of pixel driving circuits disposed between the base substrate and a layer where the plurality of light-emitting devices are located, the plurality of pixel driving circuits include a plurality of first pixel driving circuits and a plurality of second pixel driving circuits, the plurality of first pixel driving circuits are correspondingly electrically connected to the plurality of first light-emitting devices, and the plurality of second pixel driving circuits are at least partially overlapped with and correspondingly electrically connected to the plurality of second light-emitting devices; and at least one of the plurality of pixel driving circuits is provided with a drive transistor;
gate connecting electrodes, connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor;
a plurality of traces disposed between a layer where the plurality of pixel driving circuits are located and the layer where the plurality of light-emitting devices are located, each of at least part of the traces being electrically connected from at least one of the first pixel driving circuits and across at least one of the gate connecting electrodes to at least one of the first light-emitting devices; and
a shielding layer including a plurality of isolation parts, an orthographic projection, on the base substrate, of at least one of the isolation parts at least partially overlapping an orthographic projection, on the base substrate, of at least one of the gate connecting electrodes.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the shielding layer is disposed between a layer where the at least part of the traces is located and a layer where the gate connecting electrodes are located.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the gate connecting electrodes are arranged in a first direction and extend in a second direction, and the isolation parts are arranged in the first direction and extend in the second direction.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the shielding layer further includes a plurality of connection parts, and each of the connection parts connects two of the isolation parts in the first direction.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, in the second direction, a width of the isolation parts is greater than a width of the connection parts.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the shielding layer is disposed between a source-drain metal layer and a layer where the plurality of traces are located;
the shielding layer further includes a plurality of conductive parts independent from the plurality of connection parts and the plurality of isolation parts; and
the conductive parts each connects a respective one of the traces and a respective one of the first pixel driving circuits.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the shielding layer is arranged in a same layer as a rest of the traces other than the at least part of the traces;
the shielding layer further includes a plurality of conductive parts independent from the plurality of connection parts and the plurality of isolation parts; and
the conductive parts each connects a respective one of the at least part of the traces and a respective one of the first pixel driving circuits.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the isolation parts are disposed in a floating manner or applied with a DC signal.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the display substrate further includes a power signal line located in a source-drain metal layer and disposed adjacent to the gate connecting electrodes;
the power signal line is provided with a concave structure on a side close to the gate connecting electrodes;
the isolation parts are applied with a same signal as the power signal line;
orthographic projections, on the base substrate, of the isolation parts cover an orthographic projection of the concave structure; and
the orthographic projections, on the base substrate, of the isolation part partially overlap an orthographic projection of the power signal line.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the display substrate further includes a power signal line located in a source-drain metal layer and disposed adjacent to the gate connecting electrodes;
the power signal line is provided with a concave structure on a side close to the gate connecting electrodes;
orthographic projections, on the base substrate, of the isolation part overlap an orthographic projection of the concave structure; and
the orthographic projections, on the base substrate, of the isolation part do not overlap an orthographic projection of the power signal line.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a density of the plurality of first light-emitting devices in the first display area is smaller than a density of the plurality of second light-emitting devices in the second display area; and
the plurality of pixel driving circuits are located in the second display area, and each of the first pixel driving circuit is located in a gap between two of the second pixel driving circuits.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a density of the plurality of first light-emitting devices in the first display area is equal to a density of the plurality of second light-emitting devices in the second display area;
the plurality of first pixel driving circuits are located in a border area adjacent to the first display area; and
the plurality of second pixel driving circuits are located in the second display area.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first display area is configured to install a light extraction module.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a material of the plurality of traces is a transparent conductive material.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the pixel driving circuits further include a threshold compensation transistor; and
the gate connecting electrodes are electrically connected to a drain of the threshold compensation transistor.
In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display panel including the above-mentioned display substrate.
In yet another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display device including a light extraction module and the above-mentioned display panel, the light extraction module is provided in a first display area of the display panel.
To make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of embodiments of the present disclosure clearer, the technical solutions in embodiments of the present disclosure will be described clearly and completely in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in embodiments of the present disclosure. It should be noted that sizes and shapes of graphs in the drawings do not reflect the true scale, and are merely intended to schematically illustrate the present disclosure. Furthermore, same or similar reference numerals throughout represent same or similar elements or elements having same or similar functions. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of embodiments of the present disclosure, and not all embodiments. Based on the described embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative work shall fall into the protection scope of the present disclosure.
Unless otherwise defined, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have ordinary meanings as understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present disclosure pertains. The words “first”, “second” and the like used in the description and the claims of present disclosure do not indicate any order, quantity or importance, but are only used to distinguish different components. The word “comprise” or “include” or the like means that an element or item appearing before such a word covers listed elements or items appearing after the word and equivalents thereof, and does not exclude other elements or items. The words “inner”, “outer”, “up”, “down”, and the like are only used to indicate a relative positional relationship. When the absolute position of a described object changes, the relative positional relationship may also change accordingly.
As shown in
In some embodiments, each pixel driving circuit D has a drive transistor Td therein, and when the trace L crosses a gate electrode of the drive transistor Td, a gate voltage of the drive transistor Td is influenced, thus causing a change in the brightness of the light-emitting device EL electrically connected to the pixel driving circuit D. The pixel driving circuit D is described in detail here with a 7T1C structure shown in
In some embodiments, a process of driving the light-emitting device EL to emit light by the pixel driving circuit D of the 7T1C structure shown in
in a first stage, a first transistor T1 is turned on under the control of a reset signal terminal Re1, such that a first initialization signal terminal Vin1 resets the gate of the drive transistor Td (i.e., a node N1), and the other transistors are in an off state;
in a second stage, a second transistor T2 and a third transistor T3 are turned on under the control of a scanning signal terminal Gn, a signal of a data signal terminal Dm is written to a node N2 via the third transistor T3, and a threshold of the drive transistor Td is complemented by the second transistor T2; furthermore, a sixth transistor T6 is turned on under the control of a second reset signal terminal Re2, such that a second initialization signal terminal Vin2 resets an anode of the light-emitting device EL (i.e., a node N4), and the other transistors are in an off state;
in a third stage, a fourth transistor T4 and a fifth transistor T5 are turned on under the control of a light emission control signal terminal EM, and at that time, the drive transistor Td is also in an on state due to the presence of the storage capacitor Cst, thereby providing a drive current to the light-emitting device EL;
however, when the trace L crosses the gate of the drive transistor Td (i.e., the node N1) in the separately provided pixel driving circuit D or the pixel driving circuit D contained in the pixel P, a large capacitance C_L_N1 is formed between the trace L and the node N1, and the voltage of the node N1 jumps after a signal of the light emission control signal terminal EM is turned on, and brightness unevenness occurs because the capacitance between the trace L and the node N1 contained in each of the plurality of pixel driving circuits D is not completely same.
In view of the above technical problems in the related art, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display substrate, as shown in
a base substrate 101, a display area AA of the base substrate 101 including a first display area AA1 and a second display area AA2, an light transmittance of the first display area AA1 is greater than an light transmittance of the second display area AA2;
a plurality of light-emitting devices EL arranged in an array on the base substrate 101, the plurality of light-emitting devices EL including a plurality of first light-emitting devices 102 located in the first display area AA1 and a plurality of second light-emitting devices 103 located in the second display area AA2;
a plurality of pixel driving circuits D disposed between the base substrate 101 and a layer where the plurality of light-emitting devices EL are located, the plurality of pixel driving circuits D including a plurality of first pixel driving circuits 104 and a plurality of second pixel driving circuits 105, the plurality of first pixel driving circuits 104 are correspondingly electrically connected to the plurality of first light-emitting devices 102, and the plurality of second pixel driving circuits 105 are at least partially overlapped with and correspondingly electrically connected to the plurality of second light-emitting devices 103; and at least one of the plurality of pixel driving circuits D is provided with a drive transistor Td;
a gate connecting electrode 106 (i.e., a node N1) connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor;
a plurality of traces 107 disposed between a layer where the plurality of pixel driving circuits D are located and the layer where the plurality of light-emitting devices EL are located, each of at least part of the traces 107 being electrically connected from at least one of the first pixel driving circuits 104 across at least one of the gate connecting electrode 106 to at least one of the first light-emitting devices 102, respectively; and
a shielding layer 108 including a plurality of isolation parts 1081, an orthographic projection of at least one of the isolation parts 1081 on the base substrate 101 at least partially overlapping an orthographic projection of at least one of the gate connecting electrode 106 (i.e., the node N1) on the base substrate 101.
In some embodiments, when the at least part of the traces 107 crosses the at least one gate connecting electrode 106 (i.e., the node N1), the isolation part 1081 can effectively shield a signal on the trace 107 from interfering with a voltage on the gate connecting electrode 106 contained in the drive transistor Td, so that a drive current provided by the pixel driving circuit D in which the gate connecting electrode 106 (i.e., the node N1) is located does not jump, thus improving the uniformity of the luminous brightness.
It is to be noted that the shape of the first display area AA1 in the present disclosure may be a square as shown in
In some embodiments, as shown in
In some embodiments, as shown in
In some embodiments, in order to achieve the shielding effect of the shielding parts 1081, the material of the shielding layer 108 may be a metal material such as copper, molybdenum or aluminum, or a transparent conductive material such as indium tin oxide (ITO), having a shielding property itself. Furthermore, in some implementations, the isolation parts 1081 may be disposed in a floating manner (not applied with a signal) or applied with a DC signal. In some embodiments, the DC signal may be a high level (VDD) signal, a low level (VSS) signal, an initialization (Vin) signal, or the like.
In some embodiments, as shown in
In some embodiments, as the connection parts 1082 may overlap other conductive film layers to generate a parasitic capacitance, thus, to minimize the parasitic capacitance, the width of the connection parts 1082 may be smaller than the width of the isolation parts 1081 in the second direction Y, as shown in
In the present disclosure, the plurality of traces 107 may be arranged in a same layer or may be arranged in different layers. Furthermore, as shown in
In some embodiments, in the case where the plurality of traces 107 are provided in a same layer, as shown in
In the case where the plurality of traces 107 are provided in different layers, as shown in
In some embodiments, as shown in
the power signal line 109 is provided with a concave structure H on a side close to the gate connecting electrode 106;
the isolation part 108 is applied with a same signal (e.g., VDD signal) as the power signal line 109;
the orthographic projection of the isolation part 108 on the base substrate 101 may cover an orthographic projection of the concave structure H; and
the orthographic projection of the isolation part 108 on the base substrate 101 partially overlap an orthographic projection of the power signal line 109.
In this case, the concave structure H of the power signal line 109 is mainly used to avoid the gate connecting electrode 106 (i.e., the node N1), thus avoiding mutual interference between signals on the power signal line 109 and the gate connecting electrode 106 (i.e., the node N1).
In some embodiments, as shown in
the power signal line 109 is provided with a concave structure H on a side close to the gate connecting electrode 106;
the orthographic projection of the isolation part 108 on the base substrate 101 overlaps an orthographic projection of the concave structure H; and
the orthographic projection of the isolation part 108 on the base substrate 101 does not overlap an orthographic projection of the power signal line 109.
By providing the concave structure H that avoids the isolation part 108 on the power signal line 109, mutual interference between the signals on the power signal line 109 and the gate connecting electrode 106 (i.e., the node N1), and the signal on the isolation part 108, respectively, is avoided.
It is to be noted that in the present disclosure, the source-drain metal layer may refer to a metal layer where a source and a drain of the drive transistor are located. In some embodiments, the gate connecting electrode 106 may be located in the source-drain metal layer.
In some embodiments, as shown in
In some embodiments, as shown in
In addition, the above-mentioned display substrate provided in embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
In some embodiments, the first display area AA1 is configured to install a light extraction module, such as a camera module, an optical fingerprint recognition module, or an ambient light sensor.
In some embodiments, the material of the plurality of traces 107 may be a transparent conductive material to improve the light transmittance of the first display area AA1.
In some embodiments, the pixel driving circuits D further include a threshold compensation transistor, and the gate connecting electrode 106 may be further electrically connected to a drain of the threshold compensation transistor. By providing the gate connecting electrode 10 to connect the gate of the drive transistor and the drain of the threshold compensation transistor, the threshold compensation transistor may compensate the threshold of the drive transistor, thus effectively avoiding different driving currents caused by different thresholds of the drive transistors contained in different pixel driving circuits D, thereby ensuring the uniformity of the luminous brightness.
In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display panel including the above-mentioned display substrate provided in embodiments of the present disclosure.
In some embodiments, the display panel may be an organic electroluminescent display panel (OLED), a quantum dot light-emitting display panel (QLED), or a micro light-emitting diode display panel (Micro LED). The problem-solving principle of the display panel is similar to that of the above-mentioned display substrate, and thus for the implementation of the display panel provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, reference may be made to the implementation of the above-mentioned display substrate provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, and repeated description is omitted.
In yet another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display device including a light extraction module (such as a camera module) and the above-mentioned display panel, the light extraction module is provided in a first display area AA1 of the display panel.
The display device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a television, a display, a notebook computer, a digital photo frame, a navigator, a smart watch, a fitness wristband, a personal digital assistant or any other product or component with a display function. Other indispensable components of the display device are present as understandable by those skilled in the art, and are not described here, nor should they be construed as limiting the present disclosure. In addition, the problem-solving principle of the display device is similar to that of the above-mentioned display panel, and thus for the implementation of the display device, reference may be made to the implementation of the above-mentioned display panel, and repeated description is omitted.
Evidently, those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the embodiments of the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure. Thus, the present disclosure is also intended to encompass these modifications and variations to the embodiments of the present disclosure so long as the modifications and variations come into the scope of the claims appended to the present disclosure and their equivalents.
The present disclosure is a National Stage of International Application No. PCT/CN2020/123743, filed Oct. 26, 2020.
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2020/123743 | 10/26/2020 | WO |