Display apparatus that includes concavo-convex structure on upper surface of pixel defining layer and method of manufacturing the same
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyungguen Yoon, Hongyeon Lee, Sukhoon Kang, Heera Kim, Suji Park, Beomsoo Shin
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Abstract
A display apparatus includes a light-emitting device with improved reliability while maintaining liquid-repellent properties of peripheral layers after plasma irradiation. The display apparatus includes: a substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate; a pixel defining layer disposed on the pixel electrode and having an opening that exposes a central portion of the pixel electrode; and a liquid-repellent layer disposed on the pixel defining layer and having an upper surface having a concavo-convex structure.
Claims8
A display apparatus comprising:
- a substrate;
- a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate;
- a pixel defining layer disposed on the pixel electrode, the pixel defining layer having an opening that exposes a central portion of the pixel electrode;
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- at least one liquid-repellent layer disposed on the pixel defining layer, the at least one liquid-repellent layer including an upper surface having a concavo-convex structure induced by phase separation of two liquid-repellant agents,
- wherein a surface roughness of the at least one liquid-repellent layer is 10 nm to 25 nm,
- wherein the at least one liquid-repellant layer maintains a liquid repellant characteristic after plasma cleaning,
- wherein the at least one liquid-repellent layer comprises a first liquid-repellent layer and a second liquid-repellent layer,
- wherein the second liquid-repellent layer is located on the first liquid-repellent layer,
- wherein the first liquid-repellent layer includes a first liquid-repellent agent and the second liquid-repellent layer includes a second liquid-repellent agent, and
- wherein the first liquid-repellent agent has a first surface energy that is greater than a second surface energy of the second liquid-repellent agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.