US 12,382,769 B2
Display device with improved light emission efficiency
Hyun Wook Lee, Yongin-si (KR); Veidhes Basrur, Yongin-si (KR); Myung Seok Kwon, Yongin-si (KR); Ji Hyun Min, Yongin-si (KR); Sung Won Jo, Yongin-si (KR); and Jung Eun Hong, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/452,550.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0028944 (KR), filed on Mar. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0285426 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H10H 29/14 (2025.01); H10H 20/80 (2025.01); H10H 20/821 (2025.01); H10H 20/831 (2025.01); H10H 20/84 (2025.01); H10H 20/851 (2025.01); H10H 20/855 (2025.01)
CPC H10H 29/142 (2025.01) [H10H 20/821 (2025.01); H10H 20/831 (2025.01); H10H 20/84 (2025.01); H10H 20/851 (2025.01); H10H 20/855 (2025.01); H10H 20/882 (2025.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
alignment electrodes spaced apart from each other;
first light emitting elements and second light emitting elements between the alignment electrodes;
a first pixel electrode electrically connected to first end portions of the first light emitting elements;
a second pixel electrode electrically connected to second end portions of the first light emitting elements;
a third pixel electrode electrically connected to the second pixel electrode and to first end portions of the second light emitting elements;
a fourth pixel electrode electrically connected to second end portions of the second light emitting elements;
an insulating layer between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode in plan view, such that the insulating layer overlaps portions of the first pixel electrode above the first light emitting elements with the portions of the first pixel electrode between the first light emitting elements and the insulating layer in a thickness direction of the display device, and such that the second pixel electrode overlaps portions of the insulating layer above the first light emitting elements with the portions of the insulating layer between the first light emitting elements and the second pixel electrode in the thickness direction of the display device;
an emission area;
a first non-emission area surrounding the emission area; and
a second non-emission area spaced apart from the emission area with at least a portion of the first non-emission area interposed therebetween, and having therein a contact hole penetrating the insulating layer through which the second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the third pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode and the third pixel electrode being at different respective layers,
wherein the insulating layer defines a first opening exposing the second end portions of the first light emitting elements, and a second opening exposing the second end portions of the second light emitting elements, and
wherein a portion of the insulating layer covering the first end portions of the first light emitting elements and the first end portions of the second light emitting elements is between the first opening and the second opening in plan view.