Transfer Substrate Phosphor Patterning for High-Resolution LED Displays

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current display technologies, such as LCD and OLED, face challenges in achieving short response time, flexibility, and high-resolution applications, while light emitting diodes (LEDs) offer advantages like long lifespan and low power consumption, but struggle with forming partition wall structures for high-resolution displays.

Innovation Solution

A transfer substrate with a phosphor structure, including a phosphor, phosphor binder, and color filter, is used to form a partition wall structure and phosphor pattern on light emitting semiconductor devices, enabling divisional transfer and high-resolution applications without separate partition walls.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If a partition wall structure is used to prevent color mixing in phosphor conversion layers, then color accuracy is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase for high-resolution applications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephosphor pattern formation precisionVSAvoidpartition wall structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention segments the phosphor conversion layer into multiple discrete phosphor patterns, each corresponding to a specific sub-pixel region. This segmentation eliminates the need for continuous partition walls while maintaining color separation, thereby reducing manufacturing complexity for high-resolution displays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention extracts and removes the partition wall structure from the display device architecture. By using discrete phosphor patterns with sufficient spacing, the patent eliminates the harmful partition walls that complicate manufacturing, while still achieving effective color separation through the phosphor pattern arrangement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Device complexity

If discrete phosphor patterns are formed for each sub-pixel, then manufacturing complexity is reduced, but color mixing prevention becomes insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepartition wall structureVSAvoidcolor separation precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The invention applies local quality by positioning specific phosphor materials with distinct emission characteristics in precise locations corresponding to red, green, and blue sub-pixels. Each phosphor pattern has optimized local properties (material composition, particle size, concentration) to ensure accurate color emission without requiring partition walls

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The invention uses excessive spacing between phosphor patterns and optimizes phosphor layer thickness to prevent color mixing. By providing sufficient separation distance and controlling phosphor layer parameters, the patent achieves color isolation without needing partition walls, effectively using partial action to achieve the separation function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Manufacturing precision

If partition walls are formed to separate phosphor regions, then color conversion accuracy is improved, but the number of manufacturing steps increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephosphor pattern precisionVSAvoidmanufacturing throughput
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention merges the phosphor pattern formation process with the LED chip mounting process. By transferring pre-formed phosphor patterns to the LED chip surface in a single step, the patent combines multiple manufacturing operations into one, eliminating separate partition wall formation steps and improving manufacturing throughput

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention performs preliminary action by pre-forming phosphor patterns on a separate substrate before transferring them to the LED chip. This allows phosphor patterns to be prepared in advance with high precision, and then transferred in a single batch process, eliminating the need for step-by-step partition wall formation during LED assembly

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

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 solution allows for the formation of phosphor patterns on LEDs, reducing defects and the number of redundant cells, and enabling flexible, high-resolution displays with improved luminance and color conversion efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

a phosphor conversion layer arranged on the base substrate, the phosphor conversion layer including divided unit phosphor structures transferred onto the light emitting semiconductor device

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhosphorescence: Phosphorescence

Implementation Method 2

a color filter arranged between the base substrate and the phosphor binder

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAbsorption (EM radiation): Absorption (EM radiation)

Data Source

PatentUS11961947B2Substrate for manufacturing display device, display device and manufacturing method thereof
Publication Date: 2024.04.16 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

Disclosed herein is a transfer substrate used for manufacturing a display device using a light emitting semiconductor device. The transfer substrate include a base substrate, and a divided unit phosphor structure arranged on the base substrate and transferred onto the light emitting semiconductor device.