Display device
AssigneeJapan Display Inc.
InventorToshihiro Sato
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Abstract
A display device includes a pixel electrode provided on an insulating surface, a pixel separation film provided on an end of the pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer provided to cover the pixel electrode, and a counter electrode provided to cover the light-emitting layer and the pixel separation film. The pixel separation film includes a photoelectric conversion element, one of a first electrode and a second electrode of the photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the counter electrode, and the other is electrically connected to a wiring through which current generated by the photoelectric conversion element flows.
Claims12
A display device comprising:
- a first insulating layer;
- a wiring under the first insulating layer;
- a pixel electrode on the first insulating layer;
- a second insulating layer on an end of the pixel electrode;
- a light-emitting layer covering an upper surface of the pixel electrode except for an end part that is covered by the second insulating layer;
- a counter electrode covering the light-emitting layer and the second insulating layer;
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- a photoelectric conversion element inside the second insulating layer, the photoelectric conversion element including a p-type semiconductor layer and an n-type semiconductor layer arranged side by side in a direction along the upper surface of the pixel electrode, a first one of the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer being connected to the counter electrode, a second one of the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer having a lower surface that includes a first lower surface area that is connected to the wiring and a second lower surface area that is in contact with the second insulating layer, wherein,
- the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer have mutually opposed surfaces in planes perpendicular to the upper surface of the pixel electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.