US 11,672,153 B2
Display device including a connected and/or shared intermediate layer
Jongwon Chae, Yongin-si (KR); Moosoon Ko, Yongin-si (KR); Jinseock Ma, Yongin-si (KR); Sunghoon Moon, Yongin-si (KR); Sewan Son, Yongin-si (KR); Sangshin Lee, Yongin-si (KR); Yongje Jeon, Yongin-si (KR); and Jingoo Jung, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/75,630.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0000493 (KR), filed on Jan. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0210564 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. H01L 27/32 (2006.01); H01L 51/52 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 27/3218 (2013.01) [H01L 27/3213 (2013.01); H01L 27/3216 (2013.01); H01L 27/3248 (2013.01); H01L 27/3258 (2013.01); H01L 51/524 (2013.01); H01L 51/5256 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a substrate;
a first display area in which a plurality of main sub-pixels are on the substrate; and
a second display area in which a basic unit is arranged, the basic unit comprising an auxiliary light-emitting area, in which a plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels are on the substrate, and a transmission portion,
wherein each of the plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels comprises a pixel electrode on the substrate, an intermediate layer on the pixel electrode, and an opposite electrode on the intermediate layer, and
wherein the intermediate layers of auxiliary sub-pixels for emitting light of a same color from among the plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels are connected to each other and disconnected from the intermediate layers of auxiliary sub-pixels for emitting light of a different color from among the plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels; and
wherein the auxiliary light-emitting area and the transmission portion of the second display area overlap a component, the component comprising a sensor, and the plurality of main sub-pixels in the first display area does not overlap the component.