US 12,016,209 B2
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
Jinsu Byun, Yongin-si (KR); Taewook Kang, Yongin-si (KR); Hoon Kang, Yongin-si (KR); Gwangmin Cha, Yongin-si (KR); and Saehee Han, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/065,898.
Application 18/065,898 is a continuation of application No. 16/991,800, filed on Aug. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,557,636.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0109577 (KR), filed on Sep. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0209909 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H10K 59/122 (2023.01); H10K 50/844 (2023.01); H10K 59/12 (2023.01); H10K 71/00 (2023.01); H10K 102/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/122 (2023.02) [H10K 50/844 (2023.02); H10K 71/00 (2023.02); H10K 59/1201 (2023.02); H10K 2102/00 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display area located over a substrate, the display area including a plurality of pixels of which each includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an intermediate layer including an emission layer and arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode;
a pixel-defining layer covering edges of the first electrode of each of the plurality of pixels;
a spacer arranged on the pixel-defining layer and including a first portion and a second portion, and the second portion of the spacer being arranged between the first portion of the spacer and the pixel-defining layer;
a first planarization layer arranged between the pixel-defining layer and the substrate;
a second planarization layer arranged between the first planarization layer and the pixel-defining layer; and
a hole arranged apart from the first electrode in the display area, the hole being formed in the second portion of the spacer and the pixel-defining layer and extending into the second planarization layer,
wherein the hole has a first upper end and a second upper end, a first height of the first upper end from the substrate being different from a second height of the second upper end from the substrate.