Color Filter Substrate Groove Structure Adhesion

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Solution Overview

Problem

In liquid crystal display (LCD) technology, the color blocking pattern in the color filter often peels, leading to white highlights and reduced product quality due to insufficient contact area with the substrate.

Innovation Solution

A color film substrate with a translucent pattern featuring a groove structure that increases contact area between the color blocking pattern and the substrate, incorporating a black matrix pattern and a transparent conductive layer to enhance adhesion and prevent peeling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the color blocking pattern is formed on a flat translucent pattern, then the manufacturing process is simple, but the contact area is insufficient causing peeling

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadhesion of color blocking patternVSAvoidstructure of translucent pattern
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The translucent pattern is transformed from a flat two-dimensional structure to a three-dimensional structure with groove structures. This dimensional change increases the contact area between the color blocking pattern and the translucent pattern, preventing peeling while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through standard photolithography and etching processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The translucent pattern is designed with groove structures that create a porous-like surface topology. This increased surface area provides better mechanical interlocking and adhesion for the color blocking pattern, solving the peeling problem without requiring additional adhesive layers or complex assembly steps

Inventive Principle:
Principle #31Porous materials

2Reliability

If the contact area between color blocking pattern and substrate is increased, then peeling is prevented, but the manufacturing process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepeel resistanceVSAvoidfabrication process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The groove structures are pre-formed in the translucent pattern before the color blocking pattern is deposited. This preliminary action ensures that when the color blocking pattern is subsequently formed, it automatically achieves increased contact area and better adhesion without requiring additional manufacturing steps or post-processing operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10203542B2Color film substrate and manufacturing method thereof
Publication Date: 2019.02.12 TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure discloses a color film substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, increase a translucent pattern with one layer has groove structure between the substrate and the color blocking pattern, and increase the contact area between the color blocking pattern and the translucent pattern through the groove structure, by means of the contact of the translucent pattern and the substrate, thereby increasing the contact area between the color blocking pattern and the substrate, it is possible to avoid the color blocking pattern peeling, to improve the quality of the product.