Semiconductor Transfer Structure With Traps for Display Alignment

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies face challenges in precisely transferring and repairing semiconductor devices in display apparatuses, particularly in high-resolution displays, leading to increased repair rates and alignment issues.

Innovation Solution

A semiconductor device transfer structure is designed with a substrate, alignment layer, and transfer layer, featuring traps and grooves of specific dimensions and arrangements to accurately seat and align semiconductor devices, utilizing methods like fluid self-assembly transfer to enhance precision and reduce misalignment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If conventional transfer techniques are used, then manufacturing process is simpler, but transfer precision and alignment accuracy deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransfer precisionVSAvoidtransfer structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The transfer structure is segmented into multiple functional layers: a substrate, an alignment layer with traps, and a transfer layer with grooves. This segmentation allows each layer to perform its specific function (support, positioning, and transfer) independently, achieving high transfer precision without requiring the entire structure to be complex.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The alignment layer acts as an intermediary between the substrate and the transfer layer. The traps in the alignment layer provide intermediate positioning points that guide the semiconductor devices into correct alignment before final transfer, thereby improving transfer precision without directly complicating the overall transfer mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If transfer precision is improved, then repair rate is reduced, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverepair rateVSAvoidtransfer structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The alignment layer with traps is formed in advance on the substrate before the transfer layer is added. This preliminary action ensures that positioning structures are already in place to guide semiconductor devices during transfer, reducing misalignment and repair rates without requiring complex real-time adjustment mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The structure employs a nested configuration where the alignment layer with traps is embedded within the substrate, and the transfer layer with grooves is placed on top. This nested arrangement allows multiple functional elements to coexist in a compact manner, achieving high reliability without excessive structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Manufacturing precision

If trap depth is increased for better seating, then alignment precision improves, but manufacturing difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvealignment precisionVSAvoidmanufacturing difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The depth of the traps is optimized to a specific parameter range that provides sufficient seating depth for alignment precision while remaining manufacturable. By carefully selecting and controlling the trap depth parameter, the structure achieves high alignment precision without requiring excessively deep or complex trap formations that would increase manufacturing difficulty.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12615996B2Semiconductor device transfer structure, display apparatus, and method of manufacturing display apparatus
Publication Date: 2026.04.28 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
  • US12615996B2 patent drawing
  • US12615996B2 patent drawing
  • US12615996B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A semiconductor device transfer structure, a display apparatus, and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus are provided. The semiconductor device transfer structure includes: a substrate; an alignment layer provided on the substrate and including a trap configured to seat a semiconductor device; and a transfer layer provided on the alignment layer and including a groove.