Multi-layered Alignment Lines for LED Display Fabrication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current light emitting display devices face challenges in efficiently aligning micro or nano-scale light emitting diodes within pixel regions, which affects fabrication efficiency and overall display quality.
Innovation Solution
A light emitting display device design that includes a substrate with a display region and non-display region, featuring multi-layered alignment lines that facilitate the alignment of light emitting devices between pixel electrodes, allowing for precise electrical connection and improved alignment of micro or nano-scale light emitting diodes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If single-layer alignment lines are used, then device structure is simple, but alignment precision of light emitting devices deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a single-layer alignment line to a multi-layered alignment line structure, adding vertical dimensionality to improve alignment precision. The alignment lines are formed in multiple layers (first alignment line layer, second alignment line layer, third alignment line layer) with different heights, enabling more precise positioning of light emitting devices in three-dimensional space while maintaining reasonable structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment line structure is segmented into multiple independent layers, each serving specific alignment functions. The first alignment line layer provides base alignment, the second alignment line layer provides intermediate alignment, and the third alignment line layer provides fine alignment. This segmentation allows each layer to be optimized independently for its specific alignment task, improving overall alignment precision.
2Loss of energy
If alignment lines have high electrical conductivity, then voltage transfer is efficient, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment lines are constructed using composite material structures with different conductive properties in different layers. The first alignment line layer uses a first conductive material, the second alignment line layer uses a second conductive material, and the third alignment line layer uses a third conductive material. This composite approach allows optimization of electrical conductivity for voltage transfer while managing manufacturing complexity through standardized multi-layer fabrication processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The second alignment line layer acts as an intermediary conductive path between the first and third alignment line layers. This intermediate layer facilitates efficient voltage transfer by providing a dedicated conductive pathway that reduces voltage drop, while the multi-layer structure allows each intermediary layer to be manufactured using established semiconductor fabrication techniques.
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AI summary
A display device includes: a substrate including a display region including a plurality of pixel regions, and a non-display region at a periphery of the display region; a pixel circuit layer including a plurality of circuit elements in the display region; a display element layer including a plurality of light emitting devices in the display region on the pixel circuit layer; and first and second alignment lines in the non-display region, the first and second alignment lines each having a multi-layered structure. Each of the first and second alignment lines includes: a main line in a same layer as at least one electrode in the display element layer; and at least one sub-line electrically connected to the main line, the at least one sub-line in a same layer as at least one electrode in the pixel circuit layer.


