公开(公告)号：US20160209691A1

公开(公告)日：2016-07-21

申请号：US14850006

申请日：2015-09-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Byung Duk Yang ,  Chia Hsuan Tai ,  Hiroshi Osawa ,  Kyung Wook Kim ,  Ming-Chin Hung ,  Shang-Chih Lin ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Yu Cheng Chen ,  Yuan Chen

IPC: G02F1/1368 ,  H01L29/51 ,  H01L29/786 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1362

CPC classification number: G02F1/1368 ,  G02B6/00 ,  G02F1/133345 ,  G02F1/13338 ,  G02F1/133514 ,  G02F1/133528 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/136209 ,  G02F2001/133521 ,  G02F2001/136222 ,  H01L29/518 ,  H01L29/78606

Abstract: A display may have upper and lower display layers. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the upper and lower display layers. The display layers may have substrates. The display layers may include a color filter layer having an array of color filter elements on a glass substrate and a thin-film transistor layer having a layer of thin-film transistor circuitry on a glass substrate. Dielectric layers within the display layers such as dielectric layers within the thin-film transistor layer may have differing indices of refraction. Reflections and color shifts due to index of refraction discontinuities may be minimized by interposing graded index dielectric layers between adjacent layers with different indices. The graded index layers may be formed from structures with a continuously varying index of refraction or structures with a step-wise varying index of refraction.

Abstract translation: 显示器可以具有上和下显示层。 可以在上显示层和下显示层之间插入一层液晶材料。 显示层可以具有基底。 显示层可以包括在玻璃基板上具有滤色器元件阵列的滤色器层和在玻璃基板上具有薄膜晶体管电路层的薄膜晶体管层。 诸如薄膜晶体管层内的介电层的显示层内的电介质层可以具有不同的折射率。 由于折射不连续指数引起的反射和颜色偏移可以通过在不同指数的相邻层之间插入渐变折射率介电层来最小化。 渐变折射率层可以由具有连续变化的折射率的结构或具有逐步变化的折射率的结构形成。

公开(公告)号：US20150055047A1

公开(公告)日：2015-02-26

申请号：US14228070

申请日：2014-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shih Chang Chang ,  Ming-Chin Hung ,  Cheng-Ho Yu ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Shang-Chih Lin ,  Kyung-Wook Kim ,  Chun-Yao Huang ,  Szu-Hsien Lee ,  Yu-Cheng Chen ,  Hiroshi Osawa

IPC: G02F1/1368

CPC classification number: H01L27/3262 ,  G02F1/13454 ,  G02F1/13624 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/13685 ,  G02F2202/104 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G09G3/3611 ,  G09G3/3677 ,  G09G2320/043 ,  H01L27/1222 ,  H01L27/1225 ,  H01L27/1251 ,  H01L27/1255

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

Abstract translation: 电子设备可以包括在基板上具有显示像素阵列的显示器。 显示像素可以是液晶显示器中的有机发光二极管显示像素或显示像素。 在有机发光二极管显示器中，可以形成包括半导体氧化物薄膜晶体管，硅薄膜晶体管和电容器结构的混合薄膜晶体管结构。 电容器结构可以与半导体氧化物薄膜晶体管重叠。 有机发光二极管显示像素可以具有氧化物和硅晶体管的组合。 在液晶显示器中，显示驱动器电路可以包括硅薄膜晶体管电路，显示像素可以基于氧化物薄膜晶体管。 可以在形成硅晶体管栅极和氧化物晶体管栅极中使用单层或两层不同的栅极金属层。 硅晶体管可以具有与浮动栅极结构重叠的栅极。

公开(公告)号：US11876099B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US18155828

申请日：2023-01-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hiroshi Osawa ,  Kyung-Wook Kim ,  Ming-Chin Hung ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Yu-Cheng Chen

IPC: H01L27/12 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  H10K59/126 ,  H10K59/121 ,  G02F1/1345 ,  H01L29/786

CPC classification number: H01L27/1225 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/13624 ,  H01L27/1222 ,  H01L27/1251 ,  H01L27/1255 ,  H10K59/126 ,  H10K59/1213 ,  G02F1/13452 ,  G02F1/13454 ,  G02F1/13685 ,  G02F2202/104 ,  H01L29/7869

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

公开(公告)号：US09818765B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-14

申请号：US14249716

申请日：2014-04-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hiroshi Osawa ,  Kyung-Wook Kim ,  Ming-Chin Hung ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Yu-Cheng Chen

IPC: G02F1/136 ,  G02F1/1345 ,  H01L27/12 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  H01L27/32

CPC classification number: H01L27/1225 ,  G02F1/13452 ,  G02F1/13454 ,  G02F1/13624 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/13685 ,  G02F2202/104 ,  H01L27/1222 ,  H01L27/1251 ,  H01L27/1255 ,  H01L27/3262 ,  H01L27/3272 ,  H01L29/7869

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

公开(公告)号：US09645436B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-09

申请号：US14497168

申请日：2014-09-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yu-Cheng Chen ,  Young Cheol Yang ,  Hiroshi Osawa ,  Shih Chang Chang

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02B5/20 ,  H01L27/32

CPC classification number: G02F1/133514 ,  G02B5/201 ,  G02F1/133512 ,  G02F2201/52 ,  H01L27/322 ,  H01L27/3244

Abstract: A display may have a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A liquid crystal layer may be located between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. The color filter layer may have an array of color filter elements on a transparent substrate. The array of color filter elements may include more than three colors. Colored photoimageable polymer layers may be combined to form some of the color filter elements. The color filter may have cyan, magenta, and yellow color filter elements each formed from a respective single layer of cyan, magenta, and yellow polymer and may have blue elements formed by overlapping cyan and magenta polymer, green elements formed by overlapping cyan and yellow polymer, and red elements formed by overlapping magenta and yellow polymer. Filters with white elements may also be provided.

公开(公告)号：US09612492B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-04

申请号：US14164026

申请日：2014-01-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Byung Duk Yang ,  Kyung-Wook Kim ,  Shih-Chang Chang ,  Hiroshi Osawa ,  Hirokazu Yamagata ,  Daisuke Nozu

IPC: G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/1335

CPC classification number: G02F1/136209 ,  G02F1/133512

Abstract: A display may have a thin-film transistor layer and color filter layer. The display may have an active area and an inactive border area. Light blocking structures in the inactive area may prevent stray backlight from a backlight light guide plate from leaking out of the display. The thin-film transistor layer may have a clear substrate, a patterned black masking layer on the clear substrate, a clear planarization layer on the black masking layer, and a layer of thin-film transistor circuitry on the clear planarization layer. The black masking layer may be formed from black photoimageable polyimide. The clear planarization layer may be formed from spin-on glass. The light blocking structures may include a first layer formed from a portion of the black masking layer and a second layer such as a layer of black tape on the underside of the color filter layer.

公开(公告)号：US09564478B2

公开(公告)日：2017-02-07

申请号：US14228070

申请日：2014-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shih Chang Chang ,  Ming-Chin Hung ,  Cheng-Ho Yu ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Shang-Chih Lin ,  Kyung-Wook Kim ,  Chun-Yao Huang ,  Szu-Hsien Lee ,  Yu-Cheng Chen ,  Hiroshi Osawa

IPC: G02F1/136 ,  G02F1/1345 ,  H01L27/32 ,  H01L27/12 ,  G09G3/36 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G09G3/32 ,  G02F1/1362

CPC classification number: H01L27/3262 ,  G02F1/13454 ,  G02F1/13624 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/13685 ,  G02F2202/104 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G09G3/3611 ,  G09G3/3677 ,  G09G2320/043 ,  H01L27/1222 ,  H01L27/1225 ,  H01L27/1251 ,  H01L27/1255

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

Abstract translation: 电子设备可以包括在基板上具有显示像素阵列的显示器。 显示像素可以是液晶显示器中的有机发光二极管显示像素或显示像素。 在有机发光二极管显示器中，可以形成包括半导体氧化物薄膜晶体管，硅薄膜晶体管和电容器结构的混合薄膜晶体管结构。 电容器结构可以与半导体氧化物薄膜晶体管重叠。 有机发光二极管显示像素可以具有氧化物和硅晶体管的组合。 在液晶显示器中，显示驱动器电路可以包括硅薄膜晶体管电路，显示像素可以基于氧化物薄膜晶体管。 可以在形成硅晶体管栅极和氧化物晶体管栅极中使用单层或两层不同的栅极金属层。 硅晶体管可以具有与浮动栅极结构重叠的栅极。

公开(公告)号：US20150362795A1

公开(公告)日：2015-12-17

申请号：US14497168

申请日：2014-09-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yu-Cheng Chen ,  Young Cheol Yang ,  Hiroshi Osawa ,  Shih Chang Chang

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02B5/20 ,  H01L27/32 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1362

CPC classification number: G02F1/133514 ,  G02B5/201 ,  G02F1/133512 ,  G02F2201/52 ,  H01L27/322 ,  H01L27/3244

Abstract: A display may have a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A liquid crystal layer may be located between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. The color filter layer may have an array of color filter elements on a transparent substrate. The array of color filter elements may include more than three colors. Colored photoimageable polymer layers may be combined to form some of the color filter elements. The color filter may have cyan, magenta, and yellow color filter elements each formed from a respective single layer of cyan, magenta, and yellow polymer and may have blue elements formed by overlapping cyan and magenta polymer, green elements formed by overlapping cyan and yellow polymer, and red elements formed by overlapping magenta and yellow polymer. Filters with white elements may also be provided.

Abstract translation: 显示器可以具有滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层。 液晶层可以位于滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层之间。 滤色器层可以在透明基板上具有彩色滤光片元件阵列。 滤色器元件的阵列可以包括三种以上的颜色。 彩色的可光成像聚合物层可以组合以形成一些滤色器元件。 滤色器可以具有青色，品红色和黄色滤色器元件，各自由相应的单层青色，品红色和黄色聚合物形成，并且可以具有通过重叠的青色和品红色聚合物形成的蓝色元件，通过重叠青色和黄色形成的绿色元素 聚合物和通过重叠的品红色和黄色聚合物形成的红色元素。 也可以提供具有白色元件的过滤器。

公开(公告)号：US09964820B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-08

申请号：US14491248

申请日：2014-09-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Byung Duk Yang ,  Kyung-Wook Kim ,  Shih-Chang Chang ,  Hiroshi Osawa ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/1333

CPC classification number: G02F1/136209 ,  G02F2001/133357 ,  G02F2001/136222

Abstract: A display may have a thin-film transistor layer and a color filter layer. The display may include light blocking structures formed on a transparent substrate. In one arrangement, a clear planarization layer may be formed over the light blocking structures. The thin-film transistor layer may be formed over the planarization layer. The color filter layer may be integrated with the thin-film transistor layer. At least light blocking structures and the planarization layer should be formed from high temperature resistance material. In another arrangement, the color filter layer may be formed on the light blocking structures. A clear planarization layer may then be formed over the color filter layer. The thin-film transistor layer may be formed on the planarization layer. In this arrangement, the color filter layer also needs to be formed from thermal resistance material.

公开(公告)号：US09530801B2

公开(公告)日：2016-12-27

申请号：US14153954

申请日：2014-01-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Daisuke Nozu ,  Hirokazu Yamagata ,  Hiroshi Osawa ,  Shang-Chih Lin ,  Shih-Chang Chang ,  Yu-Cheng Chen

IPC: G02F1/1368 ,  H01L27/12 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/136

CPC classification number: H01L27/124 ,  G02F1/133345 ,  G02F1/133502 ,  G02F1/136213 ,  G02F1/136227 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F2001/13606 ,  G02F2001/13685 ,  G02F2201/40 ,  G02F2202/42 ,  H01L27/1255 ,  H01L27/1259

Abstract: A display may have a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be located between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor (TFT) layer. The TFT layer may include thin-film transistors formed on top of a glass substrate. A passivation layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor layers. A first low-k dielectric layer may be formed on the passivation layer. Data line routing structures may be formed on the first low-k dielectric layer. A second low-k dielectric layer may be formed on the first low-k dielectric layer. A common voltage electrode and associated storage capacitance may be formed on the second low-k dielectric layer. The first and second low-k dielectric layers may be formed from material having substantially similar refractive indices to maximize backlight transmittance and may have appropriate thicknesses so as to minimize parasitic capacitive loading.

Abstract translation: 显示器可以具有滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层。 液晶材料层可以位于滤色器层和薄膜晶体管（TFT）层之间。 TFT层可以包括形成在玻璃基板的顶部的薄膜晶体管。 钝化层可以形成在薄膜晶体管层上。 可以在钝化层上形成第一低k电介质层。 数据线路由结构可以形成在第一低k电介质层上。 可以在第一低k电介质层上形成第二低k电介质层。 公共电压电极和相关联的存储电容可以形成在第二低k电介质层上。 第一和第二低k电介质层可以由具有基本上相似的折射率的材料形成，以使背光透射率最大化并且可以具有适当的厚度，以便使寄生电容负载最小化。