POWER AND DATA ROUTING STRUCTURES FOR ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAYS

    公开(公告)号:EP3907729A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-10

    申请号:EP21183438.7

    申请日:2017-01-19

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G3/3233 H01L27/32

    摘要: An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin- film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The display and substrate may have rounded corners. A pixel definition layer may be formed on the thin- film transistor circuitry. Openings in the pixel definition layer may be provided with emissive material overlapping respective anodes for organic light- emitting diodes. A cathode layer may cover the array of pixels. A ground power supply path may be used to distribute a ground voltage to the cathode layer. The ground power supply path may be formed from a metal layer that is shorted to the cathode layer using portions of a metal layer that forms anodes for the diodes, may be formed from a mesh shaped metal pattern, may have L-shaped path segments, may include laser-deposited metal on the cathode layer, and may have other structures that facilitate distribution of the ground power supply.

    DISPLAY WITH POWER SUPPLY MESH
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3488437A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-29

    申请号:EP17772546.2

    申请日:2017-09-12

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G3/3225 H01L27/32

    摘要: An organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of pixels. The pixels may each have an organic light-emitting diode with a respective anode and may be formed from thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. A mesh-shaped path may be used to distribute a power supply voltage to the thin-film circuitry. The mesh-shaped path may have intersecting horizontally extending lines and vertically extending lines. The horizontally extending lines may be zigzag metal lines that do not overlap the anodes. The vertically extending lines may be straight vertical metal lines that overlap the anodes. The pixels may include pixels of different colors. Angularly dependent shifts in display color may be minimized by ensuring that the anodes of the differently colored pixels overlap the vertically extending lines by similar amounts.

    DISPLAYS WITH SUPPLEMENTAL LOADING STRUCTURES

    公开(公告)号:EP3454326A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-13

    申请号:EP18179976.8

    申请日:2018-06-26

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G09G3/36

    摘要: A display may have an array of pixels such as liquid crystal display pixels. The display may include short pixel rows that span only partially across the display and full-width pixel rows that span the width of the display. The gate lines coupled to the short pixel rows may extend into the inactive area of the display. Supplemental gate line loading structures may be located in the inactive area of the display to increase loading on the gate lines that are coupled to short pixel rows. The supplemental gate line loading structures may include data lines and doped polysilicon that overlap the gate lines in the inactive area. In displays that combine display and touch functionality into a thin-film transistor layer, supplemental loading structures may be used in the inactive area to increase loading on common voltage lines that are coupled to short rows of common voltage pads.