US 12,256,619 B2
Display device
Seon Uk Lee, Seongnam-si (KR); Hwa Yeul Oh, Hwaseong-si (KR); Seung Kil Yang, Cheonan-si (KR); Song Ee Lee, Seoul (KR); Yoo Seok Jang, Hwaseong-si (KR); Jeong Ki Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Jong Hoon Kim, Seoul (KR); Ju Yong Kim, Busan (KR); Ji Seong Yang, Suwon-si (KR); Jun Hwi Lim, Seoul (KR); and Sang Yeon Hwang, Anyang-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/483,487.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0178202 (KR), filed on Dec. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0199690 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. H01L 27/32 (2006.01); H01L 51/52 (2006.01); H10K 50/854 (2023.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.01); H10K 59/38 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/38 (2023.02) [H10K 50/854 (2023.02); H10K 59/12 (2023.02)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device having a plurality of light-output areas through which incident light is emitted and a light-blocking area which blocks the incident light, the display device comprising:
a substrate including a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate;
a pixel definition layer disposed on the first substrate and comprising a first opening corresponding to one of the plurality of light-output areas;
a light emitting layer disposed on the first substrate and between a pixel electrode and a common electrode;
a bank layer which is disposed in the light-blocking area disposed on the second substrate and defines a plurality of openings, each of which is disposed in the one of the plurality of light-output areas; and
a plurality of color control patterns disposed in the plurality of openings of the bank layer and disposed on the second substrate,
wherein the bank layer includes a first bank area which has a first thickness in a thickness direction and defines the plurality of openings and a second bank area which is disposed between the plurality of openings and has a second thickness in the thickness direction,
wherein the second thickness is smaller than the first thickness,
wherein the first bank area and the second bank area in the bank layer are disposed on the second substrate facing the first substrate, and
wherein the second bank area is disposed between two adjacent openings arranged along a first direction and including color control patterns emitting a same color of light, and is not disposed between two adjacent openings arranged along a second direction and including color control patterns emitting different colors of lights.