Light Conversion Layer and Color Filter for Display Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current display devices face challenges in achieving satisfactory display quality due to limitations in light conversion and color filtering, particularly in effectively transmitting and absorbing specific light wavelengths, which affects color reproduction and overall image quality.

Innovation Solution

The method involves forming a light conversion layer with conversion filters and a color filter layer on a substrate, where the light conversion layer includes conversion filters that convert blue light into red and green light, and the color filter layer absorbs blue light while transmitting red and green light, with specific thicknesses and materials used to enhance optical conversion efficiency and prevent damage to the filters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If a light conversion layer with conversion particles is added to convert blue light into red and green light, then color reproduction characteristics are improved, but device complexity increases due to additional layers and materials

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor reproduction characteristicsVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the light conversion layer and color filter layer into a single integrated structure on the same substrate. The conversion filters (containing conversion particles) and color filters are formed in sequence on the first substrate, merging two previously separate components into one unified assembly. This reduces device complexity while maintaining improved color reproduction characteristics through the combined light conversion and filtering functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses conversion particles (a type of composite material) within the conversion filters to achieve wavelength transformation. These conversion particles are embedded in a matrix material, creating a composite structure that converts blue light into red and green light. This allows the system to achieve superior color reproduction without requiring multiple separate layers, thereby managing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Manufacturing precision

If the color filter layer is formed after patterning the light blocking layer, then manufacturing precision is improved, but the number of manufacturing steps increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing precisionVSAvoidnumber of manufacturing steps
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary patterning of the light blocking layer before forming the color filter layer. By establishing the light blocking pattern first, subsequent color filter formation can be precisely aligned to the desired pixel regions. This preliminary action ensures manufacturing precision while the sequential formation process (light blocking layer first, then color filter layer) is optimized to minimize the total number of steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The manufacturing process is segmented into distinct sequential steps: first forming and patterning the light blocking layer, then forming the color filter layer in subsequent steps. This segmentation allows each layer to be optimized independently while maintaining overall precision. The segmentation into formation of conversion filters and color filters as separate but sequential operations enables precise control without excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This approach improves color reproduction characteristics and optical conversion efficiency, leading to enhanced display quality by effectively managing light transmission and absorption across different wavelengths, thereby improving image clarity and accuracy.

Implementation Method 1

Each of the conversion filters may include a plurality of conversion particles, and the color filter layer may be formed to selectively transmit light emitted from each of the conversion filters

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotoluminescence: Photoluminescence

Implementation Method 2

the color filter layer absorbing the third light and transmitting the second or third light

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectSelective absorption: Absorption (EM radiation)

Data Source

PatentUS10761363B2Display device and method of fabricating the display device
Publication Date: 2020.09.01 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A method of fabricating a display device may include the following steps: patterning a light blocking layer on a first surface of a first substrate, forming a color filter layer on a second surface of the first substrate opposite the first surface after the patterning of the light blocking layer, and forming a light conversion layer including a plurality of conversion filters on the first surface of the first substrate after the forming of the color filter layer. Each of the conversion filters may include a plurality of conversion particles, and the color filter layer may be formed to selectively transmit light emitted from each of the conversion filters.