Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Dong-min Lee

Byung Soo So

Dong-Sung Lee

Jongoh Seo

Jonghoon Choi

Ji-Hwan Kim

Jong Oh Seo

Jong-Oh Seo

Yeon Hee Jeon

Ji-hwan Kim

Seo Jong Oh

Jae-Hyun Park

Yong Kim

Mu-Gyeom Kim

Sang Il Kim

Sang-Ho Jeon

Seung-jin Baek

Byung-Soo So

Young-Sik Yoon

Sang Ho Jeon

In Cheol Ko

Mu-Jin Kim

Mee-Jae Kang

Jong-Hoon Choi

A display device includes a substrate including an opening, a buffer layer disposed on the substrate, a semiconductor disposed on the buffer layer, a gate electrode overlapping at least a portion of the semiconductor in a plan view, a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor, and a light-emitting device electrically connected to the drain electrode. The opening of the substrate overlaps another portion of the semiconductor in a plan view.

Display device and method for manufacturing the same

A method of manufacturing a display device including forming a polysilicon layer on a substrate, patterning the polysilicon layer to form a polysilicon pattern including a first region and a second region each having a first thickness, and a third region having a second thickness less than the first thickness, forming a gate insulation layer on the polysilicon pattern, forming a gate electrode on the gate insulation layer, partially implanting ions into the polysilicon pattern to form an active layer, forming an insulation interlayer on the gate electrode, forming source and drain contact holes each passing through the insulation interlayer and the gate insulation layer and respectively overlapping the first region and the second region, forming source and drain electrodes respectively filling the source and drain contact holes, and forming a light emitting element electrically connected to the source electrode or the drain electrode.

Method of manufacturing display device

A method of manufacturing a polycrystalline silicon layer for a display device includes the steps of forming an amorphous silicon layer on a substrate, cleaning the amorphous silicon layer with hydrofluoric acid, rinsing the amorphous silicon layer with hydrogenated deionized water, and irradiating the amorphous silicon layer with a laser beam to form a polycrystalline silicon layer.

Display device having polycrystalline silicon layer

A laser apparatus includes a laser generator configured to generate a first laser beam proceeding along a first direction, and an inversion module configured to convert the first laser beam to a second laser beam proceeding along the first direction, the inversion module including a splitter configured to form a reflected laser beam by partially reflecting the first laser beam, and a transmitted laser beam by partially transmitting the first laser beam, and a prism configured to reflect the reflected laser beam.

Laser apparatus and manufacturing method of display apparatus using the same

A display device may include a thin film transistor disposed on a substrate, and a display element electrically connected to the thin film transistor. The thin film transistor may include an active pattern including polycrystalline silicon, a gate insulation layer disposed on the active pattern, and a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulation layer. An average value of grain sizes of the active pattern may be in a range of about 400 nm to about 800 nm. An RMS value of a surface roughness of the active pattern may be about 4 nm or less. A method of manufacturing a polycrystalline silicon layer may include cleaning an amorphous silicon layer with hydrofluoric acid, rinsing the amorphous silicon layer with hydrogenated deionized water, and irradiating the amorphous silicon layer with a laser beam having an energy density of about 440 mJ/cmto about 490 mJ/cm.

Display device including polycrystalline silicon layer, method of manufacturing polycrystalline silicon layer, and method of manufacturing display device

A laser crystallizing apparatus may include a laser light source, an optical system, and an optical module. The laser light source may generate a laser beam. The optical system may convert the laser beam into a line laser beam. The optical module may disperse energy of the line laser beam in a first direction for generating a dispersed line laser beam. The first direction may be perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the optical module.

Laser crystallizing apparatus and method of manufacturing display apparatus

A laser annealing device includes a stage, a laser generator, and a reflective member. The stage supports a substrate with a thin film formed thereon to be processed, and may be moved in a first direction at a set or predetermined speed. The laser generator irradiates a first area of the thin film with a laser beam while the stage is moved. The reflective member reflects a part of the laser beam, which is reflected from the first area of the thin film, to a second area of the thin film. The first area and the second area are spaced apart from each other.

Laser annealing device and thin film crystallization and dehydrogenation method using same

A laser crystallization system includes a transfer part that transfers a substrate on which an amorphous silicon thin film is deposited into a chamber, a laser irradiation part that irradiates an excimer laser to the substrate for crystallization of the amorphous silicon thin film in the chamber, a stage that supports the substrate in the chamber, a measuring part that measures a light transmittance value of the substrate, and a controller that controls the laser irradiation part to irradiate the excimer laser to the substrate when the light transmittance value is equal to or lower than a reference transmittance value and controls the laser irradiation part not to irradiate the excimer laser to the substrate when the light transmittance value is higher than the reference transmittance value.

Laser crystallization system and laser crystallization method

Method of manufacturing polycrystalline silicon layer, display device, and method of manufacturing display device

A display device may include a substrate, a first layer on the substrate, the first layer including a first portion having a first thickness and a second portion having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, a second layer on the first layer, an active pattern on the second layer, the active pattern overlapping only the first portion of the first layer, a gate electrode on the active pattern, a source electrode and a drain electrode on the gate electrode and connected to the active pattern, a first electrode connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode, a pixel defining layer on the first electrode, the pixel defining layer having an opening portion exposing at least a portion of the first electrode, an emission layer in the opening portion on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the emission layer.

Display device and method of manufacturing the same

An optical system for a laser apparatus includes: a long-short axis reversing module that includes a splitter, a first mirror, and a second mirror positioned in a propagation path of an incident laser beam, where the first mirror includes a first submirror and a second submirror connected to each other at a predetermined angle therebetween. The optical system converts an incident laser beam having an asymmetric energy distribution into an emitted laser beam with a symmetric energy distribution.

Optical system for laser apparatus

An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, a scan line on the substrate to transfer a scan signal, a data line on the substrate to transfer a data signal, a switching transistor connected with the scan line and the data line, a driving transistor connected with the switching transistor, and an organic light emitting diode electrically connected to the driving transistor. The driving transistor may include a first semiconductor layer, the switching transistor may include a second semiconductor layer, and the first semiconductor layer may have a surface roughness that is greater than that of the second semiconductor layer.

Organic light emitting diode display and method for manufacturing the same

A manufacturing method of a polysilicon layer of a thin film transistor of a display device, includes: irradiating a first excimer laser beam having a first energy density to an amorphous silicon layer including an oxidation layer thereon, to form a first polysilicon layer including thereon portions of the oxidation layer at grain boundaries of the first polysilicon layer; removing the portions of the oxidation layer at the grain boundaries of the first polysilicon layer; and irradiating a second excimer laser beam having a second energy density of 80% to 100% of the first energy density to the first polysilicon layer from which the portions of the oxidation layer at the grain boundaries thereof are removed, to form a second polysilicon layer as the polysilicon layer of the thin film transistor.

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Dong-min Lee