Display device
AssigneeLG Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsHoYoung Lee, ChangHeon Kang
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Abstract
Provided is a display device including: a substrate including an active area, a non-active area, a bending area and a pad area; the active area including pixels to display images, each pixel including an organic light emitting layer and a thin-film transistor (TFT); the non-active area located between the active area and the bending area; and the bending area configured to be bent and located between the non-active area and the pad area, the bending area including a signal line and a power line that are made of a same material as a source electrode or a drain electrode of the TFT in the active area.
Claims20
A display device comprising:
- a flexible substrate including an active area, a non-active area and a bending area;
- the active area including pixels to display images, each pixel including:
- a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, and a driving transistor,
- wherein the first switching transistor, the second switching transistor, and the driving transistor are formed of amorphous silicon or poly-crystalline silicon,
- wherein the first switching transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a first gate line, a source electrode connected to a data line, and a drain electrode connected to the driving transistor,
- wherein the driving transistor includes a gate electrode connected to the drain electrode of the first switching transistor, a source electrode coupled to drive an organic light emitting diode (OLED), and a drain electrode coupled to receive a driving voltage from a driving voltage line, and
- wherein the second switching transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a second gate line, a source electrode connected to the OLED, and a drain electrode connected to a voltage line;
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- a planarization layer on the flexible substrate where the driving transistor is formed;
- a first electrode on the planarization layer in the active area and connected to the drain electrode of the driving transistor through a contact hole of the planarization layer;
- a pixel defining layer that is on the first electrode, with a portion of the first electrode being exposed by the pixel defining layer;
- a light-emitting layer on the pixel defining layer and the exposed portion of the first electrode;
- a second electrode on the light-emitting layer, wherein at least a portion of the first electrode, the light-emitting layer, and the second electrode forms the OLED;
- the non-active area including a driving circuitry, the driving circuitry includes:
- a data driving portion mounted in the non-active area positioned below the active area;
- a gate driving portion in the non-active area outside the active area, in a form of a gate in panel (GIP);
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- a light-emitting controller in the non-active area outside the active area, in the form of the GIP, and outputting a light emitting signal provided from the data driving portion;
- at least two different power lines, wherein at least two or more power lines of the at least two different power lines are arranged directly on a same layer in the bending area between the data driving portion and the active area, wherein the at least two different power lines include a first power line supplying a voltage at a first level and a second power line supplying a voltage at a second level different from the first level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.