This application claims the priority benefit of China application serial no. 201210138388.2, filed on May 7, 2012. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a color film substrate, and more particularly, to a manufacturing method for a color film substrate having a touch function.
2. Description of Related Art
In recent year, following the rapid development and application of the information technology, wireless mobile communication and information appliance, input devices of many information products have transformed from keyboards and mice to touch panels in order to achieve more convenience, lighter volume and more humaneness, wherein the touch display device is currently the most popular product.
Conventional touch panel generally may be classified as conductive, resistive and photosensitive, in which the conductive touch panel is particularly the mainstream product. If classification basing on the structural constitutions, the touch panel may be classified into two major types, the on-cell type and the in-cell type, wherein the in-cell type touch panel may be integrated with the entire panel manufacturing process (such as the manufacturing process of color film substrate), and is contributive in reducing the thickness of the product in compliance with the trend of miniaturization.
The manufacture of the conventional touch color film substrate is to sequentially form the bottom electrode layer, the insulating layer, the top electrode layer, the color film layer, the passivation layer, the common electrode layer, and the spacers on the substrate. The bottom electrode layer is disposed on the substrate, and the insulating layer is located between the top electrode layer and the bottom electrode layer, wherein the top electrode layer and the bottom electrode layer are both being the black matrix. The color film layer comprises a plurality of color filter units respectively disposed on the substrate while not overlapping with the bottom electrode layer. The passivation layer covers the color film layer, the top electrode layer and the bottom electrode layer, the common electrode layer is disposed on the passivation layer, and the spacers ares disposed on the common electrode layer.
Accordingly, the manufacture of the conventional touch color film substrate in comparison with the general manufacture of the color film substrate has two additional process steps, which are the step of manufacturing the insulating layer for electrical insulating the top electrode layer and the bottom electrode layer, and the step of manufacturing the top electrode layer, and thus the manufacturing process is much more complicated and not able to ensure the process yield. Therefore, improving the manufacture of the touch color film substrate to further reduce the process steps and enhance the process yield is practically a major issue for the production technology of the touch color film substrate to overcome.
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a color film substrate, which has an insulating spacer capable of being an insulating layer, that may effectively reduce the process steps and lower the production cost.
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a color film substrate comprising the following steps. A substrate is provided. A first conductive black matrix extending along a first direction is formed on the substrate. A color film layer on the substrate is formed, and the normal projections of the color film layer and of the first conductive black matrix on the substrate are not overlapping. A plurality of insulating spacers is formed on the first conductive black matrix, and the height of the plurality of insulating spacers is greater than the thickness of the color film layer. A second conductive black matrix is formed on the substrate, wherein the second conductive black matrix extends along a second direction and covers the insulating spacers, and the second direction intersects with the first direction. A passivation layer is formed for covering the first conductive black matrix, the color film layer, the plurality of insulating spacers, and the second conductive black matrix. A transparent conductive layer is formed on the passivation layer.
The invention further provides a method for manufacturing a color film substrate comprising the following steps. A substrate is provided. A first conductive black matrix extending along a first direction is formed on the substrate. A color film layer is formed on the substrate, and the normal projections of the color film layer and of the first conductive black matrix on the substrate are not overlapping. A plurality of first spacers is formed on the first conductive black matrix, and the height of the plurality of first spacers and the thickness of the first conductive black matrix in total are equal to the thickness of the color film layer. The materials of the plurality of first spacers and of the color film layer are the same. A second conductive black matrix is formed on the substrate, wherein the second conductive black matrix extends along a second direction and covers the plurality of first spacers, and the second direction intersects with the first direction. A passivation layer is formed for covering the first conductive black matrix, the color film layer, the plurality of first spacers, and the second conductive black matrix. A transparent conductive layer is formed on the passivation layer. A plurality of second spacers is formed on the transparent conductive layer, and the normal projections of the second spacer and of the first spacer on the substrate are overlapping.
In an exemplary embodiment, the first conductive black matrix has a plurality of first strip conductive patterns, and the plurality of first strip conductive patterns is electrically insulated from each others.
In an exemplary embodiment, the second conductive black matrix has a plurality of second strip conductive patterns. The plurality of second strip conductive patterns is electrically insulated from each others, and the plurality of second strip conductive patterns is perpendicularly intersected with the plurality of first strip conductive patterns.
In an exemplary embodiment, the materials of the first conductive black matrix and of the second conductive black matrix are comprised of metal or semiconductor material.
In an exemplary embodiment, the color film layer comprises a plurality of red filter films, a plurality of green filter films and a plurality of blue filter films.
In an exemplary embodiment, the color film layer is connected with the plurality of first spacers.
In an exemplary embodiment, the color film layer is not connected with the plurality of first spacers.
Based on the above, as described in the embodiments of the invention, the method for manufacturing the color film substrate is to sequentially form the first conductive black matrix, the color film layer, the insulating spacers, the second conductive black matrix, the passivation layer, and the transparent conductive layer on the substrate, wherein the height of the plurality of insulating spacers is greater than the thickness of the color film layer. Therefore, the plurality of insulating spacers in addition to being the support for sustaining the spacing between the two substrates (e.g., the color film substrate and the opposite substrate) may also be the insulating layer between the first conductive black matrix and the second conductive black matrix. Consequently, in comparison with the conventional method for manufacturing the touch color film substrate, the method for manufacturing the color film substrate of the invention may effectively reduce the manufacturing steps and the production cost.
The abovementioned features and advantages of the invention will become more obvious and better understood with regard to the following description of the exemplary embodiments and accompanying drawings in the below.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide further understanding, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
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Since the height of the plurality of insulating spacers 140 is greater than the thickness of the color film layer 130, the insulating spacers 140 in addition to being the support for sustaining the spacing between the color film substrate 100 and the opposite substrate of subsequent application may also be the insulating layer between the first conductive black matrix 120 and the second conductive black matrix 150, thus capable of preventing the first conductive black matrix 120 and the second conductive black matrix 150 from direct contacting and causing short circuit.
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Since the method for manufacturing the color film substrate 100 is to sequentially form the first conductive black matrix 120, the color film layer 130, the insulating spacers 140, the second conductive black matrix 150, the passivation layer 160 and the transparent conductive layer 170 on the substrate 110, wherein the height H of plurality of insulating spacers 140 is greater than the thickness T of the color film layer 130. Therefore, the insulating spacers 140 in addition to being the support for sustaining the spacing between the color film substrate 100 and the opposite substrate of subsequent application (not shown) may also be the insulating layer between the first conductive black matrix 120 and the second conductive black matrix 150. Consequently, in comparison with the conventional method for manufacturing the touch color film substrate, the manufacture of the color film substrate 100 of the embodiment may effectively reduce the manufacturing steps and the production cost.
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With reference to FIG. 3D(a) and FIG. 4D(a), a plurality of first spacers 240 is formed on the first conductive black matrix 220. Specifically, the plurality of first spacers 240 is located on the first conductive black matrix 220, and the materials of the plurality of first spacers 240 and for the color film layer 230 are the same. Furthermore, the height H′ of the plurality of first spacers 240 and the thickness t of the first conductive black matrix 220 in total are equal to the thickness T′ of the color film layer so as to make the surface of the first spacer 240 and the surface of the color film layer 230 to become coplanar. Furthermore, the material of the first spacer 240 has no electrical conductivity so as to enable the plurality of insulating spacers 240 to be directly disposed on the first conductive black matrix 220, which is electrical conductive, while not causing short circuit.
Noteworthily, since the materials of the plurality of first spacers 240 and of the color film layer 230 are the same, the plurality of first spacers 240 and the color film layer 230 may be produced through the same manufacturing process. Moreover, the color film layer 230 of the present embodiment is not connected with the first spacer 240, as shown in FIG. 3D(a). In the other embodiment, the color film layer 230 may connect with the first spacer 240, as shown in FIG. 3D(b) and FIG. 4D(b), but the disclosure is not limited hereto.
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Since the method for manufacturing the color film substrate 200 is to sequentially form the first conductive black matrix 220, the color film layer 230, the plurality of first spacers 240, the second conductive black matrix 250, the passivation layer 260, the transparent conductive layer 270 and the plurality of second spacers 280 on the substrate 210, wherein the materials of the plurality of first spacers 240 and of the color film layer 230 are the same. Therefore, the plurality of first spacers 240 in addition to being the insulating layer between the first conductive black matrix 220 and the second conductive black matrix 250 may also be produced along with the color film layer 230 through the same manufacturing process. Consequently, in comparison with the conventional method for manufacturing the touch color film substrate, the method for manufacturing the color film substrate 200 of the present embodiment may effectively reduce the manufacturing steps and the production cost.
Furthermore, the color film substrate 100 and the color film substrate 200, manufactured according to the method for manufacturing the color film substrate in the first exemplary embodiment and the second exemplary embodiment of the invention, may further be applied to the manufacture of the liquid crystal display panel.
In light of the foregoing, the invention provides the method for manufacturing the color film substrate by sequentially forming the first conductive black matrix, the color film layer, the plurality of insulating spacers, the second conductive black matrix, the passivation layer and the transparent conductive layer on the substrate, wherein the height of the plurality of insulating spacers is greater than the thickness of the color film layer. Therefore, the plurality of insulating spacers in addition to being the support for sustaining the spacing between the color film substrate and the opposite substrate may also be the insulating layer between the first conductive black matrix and the second conductive black matrix. Consequently, the method for manufacturing the color film substrate of the invention may effectively reduce the manufacturing steps and the production cost.
In addition, the invention further provides the method for manufacturing the color film substrate by sequentially forming the first conductive black matrix, the color film layer, the plurality of first spacers, the second conductive black matrix, the passivation layer, the transparent conductive layer and the plurality of second spacers on the substrate, wherein the materials of the plurality of first spacers and of the color film layer are the same. Therefore, the plurality of first spacers in addition to being the insulating layer between the first conductive black matrix and the second conductive black matrix may also be produced along with the color film layer through the same manufacturing process. Accordingly, the method for manufacturing the color film substrate of the invention may effectively reduce the manufacturing steps and the production cost.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the disclosed embodiments without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the invention cover modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
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201210138388.2 | May 2012 | CN | national |