Micro-LED Display Backplane Bonding Structure to Prevent Short Circuits

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge in Micro-LED display technology is to improve bonding efficiency and reliability between Micro-LEDs and their corresponding driving electrodes on the display backboard, particularly due to the small size and close proximity of the Micro-LEDs, which often results in bonding short circuits.

Innovation Solution

A display backboard design featuring connection structures with conductive components and restriction components on the driving electrodes, where the conductive components are aligned with the Micro-LED electrodes and the restriction components prevent bonding material overflow, ensuring secure and reliable electrical connections without short circuits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If the distance between adjacent Micro-LED pixels is reduced to micrometer level, then the resolution and brightness are improved, but the bonding reliability deteriorates due to bonding material overflow causing short circuits

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepixel pitchVSAvoidbonding reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The connection structure is segmented into distinct functional components: a conductive component for electrical connection and a restriction component for confining bonding material. This segmentation allows the bonding material to be contained within specific boundaries, preventing overflow to adjacent pixels while maintaining reliable electrical connection at the micrometer scale.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The restriction component provides localized confinement of bonding material at critical interfaces between adjacent pixels. By creating a localized barrier structure with specific height and lateral extent, the bonding material is restricted to the intended connection area, enabling high-resolution pixel arrangement without sacrificing bonding reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If the bonding material is applied generously to ensure good electrical connection, then the electrical conductivity is improved, but the bonding material overflows and causes short circuits between adjacent pixels

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveelectrical connection reliabilityVSAvoidbonding material overflow
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The restriction component acts as an intermediary structure between the bonding material and adjacent pixels. It provides a controlled interface that allows sufficient bonding material to be applied for reliable electrical connection while preventing the material from spreading to neighboring pixels, thus eliminating the harmful overflow effect.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The restriction component extends in the vertical dimension (height direction) to create a three-dimensional confinement structure. By adding this vertical dimension to the bonding interface, the bonding material is contained within defined lateral boundaries while maintaining adequate contact area for electrical connection, resolving the conflict between connection reliability and overflow prevention.

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

3Ease of manufacture

If the connection structure is designed with larger dimensions to facilitate bonding, then the bonding ease is improved, but the device complexity and area occupation increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebonding easeVSAvoidconnection structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The connection structure is designed as a universal component that simultaneously provides electrical connection, bonding material confinement, and mechanical support functions. The conductive component and restriction component work together to achieve multiple objectives with a single integrated structure, avoiding the need for separate complex assemblies and simplifying the overall device architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3979317B1Display backplane and manufacturing method therefor, and display device
Publication Date: 2024.11.06 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

A display backboard and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display backboard includes: a driving substrate; a plurality of driving electrodes on the driving substrate; and a plurality of connection structures respectively on the plurality of driving electrodes. The connection structure includes: at least one conductive component on the driving electrode; and a restriction component on a side of the driving electrodes provided with the at least one conductive component and in at least a part of a peripheral region of the at least one conductive component. The restriction component protrudes from the driving electrode and has a first height in a direction perpendicular to the driving substrate.