Display Substrate Trench Structure for Narrow Frame
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing organic light emitting display devices require wide conductive wires to maintain low resistance, which increases the non-display area and hinders the realization of a display device with a narrow frame.
Innovation Solution
A display substrate design featuring a conductive wire with a trench structure in the insulating layer, allowing the wire to be wider in the non-display area while maintaining a narrow frame, by extending the wire along the sides of the substrate and incorporating trenches that reduce the border width occupied by the wire.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a wide conductive wire is used to maintain low resistance, then the resistance value of the conductive wire is reduced, but the area of the non-display area increases
Solution Approach 1:
The conductive wire transitions from a planar structure to a three-dimensional structure by extending into the insulating layer through trenches. This vertical dimension allows the wire to maintain low resistance through increased effective width while occupying less horizontal space in the non-display area, directly resolving the contradiction between resistance reduction and area minimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The insulating layer is segmented by introducing trenches that divide it into multiple regions. The conductive wire is positioned within these segmented trench structures, allowing it to achieve an effectively wider path for current flow while the segmentation confines the wire to specific zones, preventing excessive expansion into the non-display area.
2Reliability
If a wide conductive wire is used to maintain low resistance, then the resistance value of the conductive wire is reduced, but the frame width increases
Solution Approach 1:
By extending the conductive wire vertically into the insulating layer through trenches, the effective conduction path width is increased without proportionally increasing the horizontal frame width. This dimensional transition allows resistance reduction while maintaining a compact frame structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The conductive wire is nested within the trench structures formed in the insulating layer. This nesting arrangement allows the wire to utilize the vertical space within the insulating layer, achieving an effectively wider conduction path while the outer boundary (frame width) remains determined by the substrate edges, not the wire expansion.
Data Source
AI summary
A display substrate includes: a base substrate having a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; an electroluminescent device disposed on the base substrate and located in the display area, the electroluminescent device including an anode, an electroluminescent layer, and a cathode disposed in this order on the base substrate; a negative power line disposed on the base substrate and located in the peripheral area, the negative power line extending along a side of the base substrate and being electrically connected to the cathode; and an insulating layer between the base substrate and the negative power line, a side of the insulating layer close to the negative power line being provided with at least a trench. The trench is located in the peripheral area and extends in an extending direction of the negative power line, a part of the negative power line being located in the trench.


