US 11,730,021 B2
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
Wooyong Sung, Yongin-si (KR); Jaesik Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Jaeik Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Yeonhwa Lee, Yongin-si (KR); and Joongu Lee, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/871,128.
Application 17/871,128 is a division of application No. 16/868,493, filed on May 6, 2020, granted, now 11,430,842.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0136899 (KR), filed on Oct. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0359630 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 59/122 (2023.01); H10K 71/00 (2023.01); H10K 102/10 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/122 (2023.02) [H10K 71/00 (2023.02); H10K 2102/103 (2023.02)] 6 Claims
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1. A method of manufacturing a display device, the method including:
preparing a substrate including a display area, the display area including a first area and a second area;
forming a first pixel electrode in the first area, and a second pixel electrode in the second area;
forming a pixel-defining layer including a first opening and a second opening, the first opening being in the first pixel electrode and exposing at least a portion of the first pixel electrode, and the second opening being in the second pixel electrode and exposing at least a portion of the second pixel electrode;
forming a first intermediate layer on the at least a portion of the first pixel electrode, and a second intermediate layer on the at least a portion of the second pixel electrode;
forming a hydrophobic layer on the second intermediate layer;
forming a first opposite electrode on the first intermediate layer and the hydrophobic layer;
removing the hydrophobic layer and the first opposite electrode on the hydrophobic layer; and
forming a second opposite electrode on the first opposite electrode and the second intermediate layer.