Micro LED Transfer Layout for Uniform Brightness Across Splice Areas

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Solution Overview

Problem

Micro LED displays face issues with non-uniform thickness of micro light-emitting diodes during the wafer manufacturing process, leading to brightness differences between adjacent transfer areas and resulting in poor display quality due to visible boundaries between splicing points.

Innovation Solution

A manufacturing method for micro LED displays involves transferring micro light-emitting diodes onto a display substrate using a transfer head that rotates 180 degrees between adjacent transfer areas, arranging the diodes in a staggered manner to compensate for thickness differences and reduce brightness variations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If micro light-emitting diodes are transferred onto adjacent transfer areas using a conventional transfer process, then the transfer efficiency is maintained, but the thickness uniformity deteriorates causing brightness differences between areas

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransfer efficiencyVSAvoidthickness uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies asymmetry by rotating the transfer head 180 degrees when moving from one transfer area to another. This rotational asymmetry compensates for the thickness variation of micro LEDs across the wafer surface, ensuring that LEDs from different radial positions are distributed uniformly across multiple transfer areas, thereby eliminating brightness differences while maintaining high transfer efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #4Asymmetry

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-planning the transfer sequence and rotation angles before the actual transfer process. The transfer head rotation angles are predetermined based on the wafer map data, allowing the system to compensate for thickness variations before transfer begins, ensuring uniform thickness distribution across all transfer areas

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Speed

If a large area is fetched during each transfer process, then the transfer speed is improved, but the light field distribution uniformity deteriorates resulting in visible boundaries between transfer areas

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransfer speedVSAvoidlight field distribution uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the overall transfer process into multiple smaller transfer operations, each handling a portion of the display substrate. The transfer head processes multiple transfer areas sequentially with 180-degree rotations, breaking down the large-area transfer into manageable segments that maintain uniform light field distribution while preserving high transfer speed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamics by making the transfer head rotation angle variable depending on the current transfer area being processed. The system dynamically adjusts the rotation angle by 180 degrees between adjacent transfer areas, allowing the transfer process to adapt to position-dependent thickness variations and maintain uniform light field distribution across the entire display substrate

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11843073B2Micro LED display device and manufacturing method thereof
Publication Date: 2023.12.12 PLAYNITRIDE DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A micro LED display device includes a display substrate. The display substrate has a first transfer area and a second transfer area adjacent to each other. Both the first transfer area and the second transfer area include a plurality of pixel areas. The pixel area of the first transfer area includes a first micro light-emitting element arranged in a straight line along a first direction. The pixel area of the second transfer area includes a second micro light-emitting element arranged in another straight line along the first direction. In the first direction, the first micro light-emitting element and the second micro light-emitting element are arranged in a staggered manner. A manufacturing method of a micro LED display device is also provided.