Method of manufacturing display apparatus and display apparatus manufactured using the same
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsChanghan Lee, Yongjun Park, Changwoo Shim, Sanghun Lee
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes preparing a substrate including a display area and a pad area outside of the display area, forming a sacrificial layer in the pad area, forming an encapsulation layer over the display area and the pad area, forming cracks in at least a portion of the encapsulation layer by increasing a volume of the sacrificial layer or by gasifying or evaporating at least a portion of the sacrificial layer, and removing at least a portion of the encapsulation layer in the pad area. A display apparatus is manufactured according to the manufacturing method.
Claims14
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method comprising:
- preparing a substrate comprising a display area and a pad area outside of the display area;
- forming a sacrificial layer in the pad area;
- forming an encapsulation layer over the display area and the pad area;
- forming cracks in at least a portion of the encapsulation layer by increasing a volume of the sacrificial layer or by gasifying or evaporating at least a portion of the sacrificial layer;
- and
- removing at least a portion of the encapsulation layer in the pad area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.