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EP-4044238-B1 - LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE BASED ON SPECIAL-SHAPED nLED GRAINS

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Inventors

  • GUO, TAILIANG
  • WENG, Yalian
  • ZHOU, Xiongtu
  • ZHANG, YONGAI
  • WU, Chaoxing
  • Lin, Zhixian
  • YAN, QUN

Dates

Publication Date
20260506
Application Date
20200831

Claims (6)

  1. A light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains, comprising an upper drive electrode substrate (11), an upper drive electrode (12), special-shaped nLED grains (13), a lower drive electrode (15) and a lower drive electrode substrate (14) that are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, and being further provided with an AC drive control module having two ends connected to the upper drive electrode (12) and the lower electrode (15) respectively, wherein the special-shaped nLED grains (13) are nLED grains each comprising a non-planar luminous layer (133), and at least part of the luminous layers are perpendicular to an electric field no matter in which direction the nLED grains are regularly disposed between the electrode substrates; characterized in that the drive electrode is isolated from the nLED grains by an insulating dielectric layer (131), and in presence of the AC drive signal, the nLED grains are lighted up through electromagnetic coupling; the special-shaped nLED grains (13) comprise spherical nLED grains, polygonal nLED grains and rod-like nLED grains; each said nLED grain (13) comprises one luminous layer (133) or multiple luminous layers (133) stacked in parallel; and the spherical nLED grains and the polygonal nLED grains have a size of 1nm-1µm, and the rod-like nLED grains have a diameter of 1nm-1µm and a length of 1µm -10µm.
  2. The light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains according to Claim 1, wherein long axes of the rod-like nLED grains in the device are perpendicular to the electric field.
  3. The light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains according to Claim 1, wherein at least one of the upper drive electrode (12) and the lower drive electrode (15) is a transparent electrode, and the two electrodes are spaced apart from each other to form an independent space.
  4. The light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains according to Claim 1, wherein the insulating dielectric layer (131) is disposed on surfaces of the two drive electrodes or disposed on outer surfaces of the spherical nLED grains (13), so that direct electrical contact between the nLED grains and the electrodes is avoided.
  5. The light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains according to Claim 1, wherein the AC drive control module provides an alternating voltage with a magnitude and polarity varying with time; a waveform of the alternating voltage comprises a sinusoidal waveform, a triangular waveform, a square waveform, a pulse waveform and a composite waveform thereof; and the alternating voltage is at a frequency of 1Hz-1000MHz and has a controllable duty cycle.
  6. The light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains according to Claim 1, wherein the drive electrode substrates are made of rigid or flexible substrate materials, and a plurality of said special-shaped nLED grains are disposed between every two pixel electrodes.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Technical Field The invention relates to the field of integrated semiconductor light-emitting and display, in particular to a light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains. 2. Description of Related Art LED display has been widely applied to various occasions because of its advantages of self-illumination, high brightness and luminous efficacy, low power consumption and high stability. With the decrease of the size of LED chips and the pixel pitch, LED display is expected to fulfill flexible, highly-transparent, interactive and modularly-stitched display and is regarded as a revolutionary display technique with complete functions and capable of being applied to all fields. Wherein, µLED display is a novel display technique based on an array formed by micron-sized LED light-emitting pixels, and nLED (nano-LED) display is a novel display technique based on an array formed by nano-sized LED light-emitting pixels. At present, leading LED chip manufacturers, display panel manufacturers and display application manufacturers at home and abroad have actively devoted to the development of ultrahigh-density and small-pitch LED (µLED and nLED) display. However, when the size of LED chips decreases to a certain degree, operations on the chips will become increasingly difficult. Particularly, for nLED grains, how to transfer grains with different light-emitting colors onto a circuit substrate with mechanical tools and fulfill accurate electrical contact between the µLED grains and drive electrodes through perfect alignment and bonding have become a great technical challenge. Patent CN 107681033 B discloses a preparation method of a micro LED device. The preparation method comprises the following steps of preparing nanometer LED particles; providing nanometer conductive particlesand an adhesive, and performing mixing on the nanometer LED particles, the nanometer conductive particles and the adhesive to obtain a first mixture; providing a substrate, and forming a first electrode layer on the substrate; coating the first electrode layer with the first mixture and performing curing treatment to form a composite layer; and forming a second electrode layer on the composite layer to obtain the micro LED device. By virtue of the preparation method of the micro LED device, the transferring and packaging difficulty of the nanometer LED particles can be lowered, the productionefficiency is improved and the production cost is lowered. Patent EP 3270413 A1 discloses a display apparatus includes a substrate (100), a first electrode (21) on the substrate (100), the first electrode (21) including a first portion that has a flat upper surface and a second portion that protrudes from the first portion and has an inclined surface, a second electrode (22) facing the first electrode (21) in parallel on the substrate (100), the second electrode (22) including a first portion that has a flat upper surface and a second portion that protrudes from the first portion and has an inclined surface, and a plurality of light-emitting devices separate from each other on the first electrode and the second electrode, the light-emitting devices each having a first end contacting the upper surface of the first portion of the first electrode and a second end contacting the upper surface of the first portion of the second electrode. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of this, the objective of the invention is to provide a light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains, which adopts special-shaped nLED grains to ensure that when a grain sheet is disposed between electrode substrates, a luminous layer of each nLED grain is always partially parallel to the electrode substrates and perpendicular to an electrode field, thus greatly improving electrical coupling efficiency and luminous efficiency. To fulfill the above objective, the invention adopts the following technical solution: A light-emitting display device based on special-shaped nLED grains comprises an upper drive electrode substrate, an upper drive electrode, special-shaped nLED grains, a lower drive electrode and a lower drive electrode substrate that are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, and is further provided with an AC drive control module having two ends connected to the upper drive electrode and the lower electrode respectively, wherein the special-shaped nLED grains are nLED grains each comprising a non-planar luminous layer, and at least part of the luminous layers are perpendicular to an electric field no matter in which direction the nLED grains are regularly disposed between the electrode substrates; and the drive electrode is isolated from the nLED grains by an insulating dielectric layer, and in presence of the AC drive signal, the nLED grains are lighted up through electromagnetic coupling;the special-shaped nLED grains comprise spherical nLED grains, polygonal nLED grains and rod-like nLED grains;each nLED