Display apparatus

Abstract

A display apparatus capable of reducing a defect rate during manufacturing and utilizing thereof, the display apparatus includes a substrate comprising a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area; a display unit over an upper surface of the substrate to correspond to the display area; and a protective film including a protective film base and an adhesive layer, the protective film being attached to the lower surface of the substrate by the adhesive layer, wherein the protective film base includes a first protective film base corresponding at least to the display area, and a second protective film base having physical properties that are different from physical properties of the first protective film base and corresponding to at least a part of the peripheral area.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.