US 12,414,447 B2
Display device
Do Yeong Park, Yongin-si (KR); Kyung Bae Kim, Yongin-si (KR); and Ji Hye Lee, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/519,417.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0154018 (KR), filed on Nov. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0157917 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 59/131 (2023.01); H10K 59/121 (2023.01); H10K 59/122 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/131 (2023.02) [H10K 59/1213 (2023.02); H10K 59/122 (2023.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a base layer including a display area and a non-display area;
pixels in the display area, each of the pixels comprising a first electrode and a second electrode located in a light emitting area and light emitting elements arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode;
a bank in the display area and surrounding the light emitting area of each of the pixels;
a first power line in the display area, a portion of the first power line overlapping the light emitting area of at least one of the pixels;
a second power line in the display area, an upper surface of the second power line being completely covered by the bank, the second power line not being covered by the light emitting area of each of the pixels;
a first line in the non-display area and connected to the first power line, the first line comprising a first portion between the display area and a pad portion of the display device, and a second portion facing the first portion with the display area interposed therebetween, respective ends of the first power line being connected to the first portion and the second portion of the first line;
a second line in the non-display area and connected to the second power line; and
a third line in the non-display area and separated from the pixels, the first power line, and the second power line,
wherein the light emitting elements comprise:
at least one first light emitting element connected between the first electrode and at least one of a first intermediate electrode or a second intermediate electrode, and comprising a first end portion and a second end portion; and
at least one second light emitting element connected between the second electrode and at least one of the first intermediate electrode or the second intermediate electrode, and comprising a first end portion and a second end portion,
wherein each of the pixels further comprises:
a first contact electrode on the first electrode and the first end portion of the first light emitting element;
a second contact electrode on the intermediate electrode, the second end portion of the first light emitting element, and the first end portion of the second light emitting element; and
a third contact electrode on the second electrode and the second end portion of the second light emitting element,
wherein:
the intermediate electrode comprises the first intermediate electrode and the second intermediate electrode that are spaced from each other, wherein the first electrode is interposed between the first intermediate electrode and the second intermediate electrode; and
the first intermediate electrode and the second intermediate electrode are connected to each other through the second contact electrode.