Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Joon-seok Park

Myung-Kwan Ryu

Tae-sang Kim

Hyun-Suk Kim

Kyoung-seok Son

Jong-Baek Seon

Sang-Yoon Lee

Seok-jun Seo

Sun-Jae Kim

Mi-jeong Song

Taesang Kim

Won-mook Choi

Kyungjin Jeon

Geunchul Park

Wan-joo Maeng

Jun-Hyung Lim

Kwang-suk Kim

Yeon-keon Moon

A display device includes a base substrate including a first sub-pixel area, a second sub-pixel area, and a third sub-pixel area, first to third thin film transistors on the base substrate and including first to third active patterns, respectively, first to third pixel electrodes electrically connected to the first to third thin film transistors, respectively and in the first to third sub-pixel areas, respectively, a blue light emitting layer on the first to third pixel electrodes and configured to emit a blue light, a first color conversion pattern in the first sub-pixel area on the blue light emitting layer, a second color conversion pattern in the second sub-pixel area on the blue light emitting layer, and a red color filter layer between the blue light emitting layer and the first to third active patterns.

Display device

According to example embodiments, a semiconductor material may include zinc, nitrogen, and fluorine. The semiconductor material may further include oxygen. The semiconductor material may include a compound. For example, the semiconductor material may include zinc fluorooxynitride. The semiconductor material may include zinc oxynitride containing fluorine. The semiconductor material may include zinc fluoronitride. The semiconductor material may be applied as a channel material of a thin film transistor (TFT).

Semiconductor materials, transistors including the same, and electronic devices including transistors

A transistor may include a hole blocking layer between a channel layer including oxynitride and an electrode electrically connected to the channel layer. The hole blocking layer may be disposed in a region between the channel layer and at least one of a source electrode and a drain electrode. The channel layer may include, for example, zinc oxynitride (ZnON). A valence band maximum energy level of the hole blocking layer may be lower than a valence band maximum energy level of the channel layer.

Transistor, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic device including transistor

According to example embodiments, a transistor may include a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, and a channel layer stacked on each other; and a source electrode and a drain electrode contacting first and second regions of the channel layer, respectively. The channel layer may include metal oxynitride. The first and second regions of the channel layer may be treated with a plasma containing hydrogen, and the first and second regions have a higher carrier concentration than a carrier concentration of a remaining region of the channel layer. The first and second regions of the channel layer may have a lower oxygen concentration and a higher nitrogen concentration than that of the remaining region thereof. The metal oxynitride of the channel layer may include a zinc oxynitride (ZnON)-based semiconductor.

Transistors including a channel where first and second regions have less oxygen concentration than a remaining region of the channel, methods of manufacturing the transistors, and electronic devices including the transistors

A transistor may include a light-blocking layer that blocks light incident on a channel layer. The light-blocking layer may include a carbon-based material. The carbon-based material may include graphene oxide, graphite oxide, graphene or carbon nanotube (CNT). The light-blocking layer may be between a gate and at least one of the channel layer, a source and a drain.

Transistors and electronic devices including the transistors

According to example embodiments, a thin film transistor (TFT) includes a channel layer including zinc, nitrogen, and oxygen; an etch stop layer on the channel layer; source and drain electrodes respectively contacting both ends of the channel layer; a gate electrode corresponding to the channel layer; and a gate insulating layer between the channel layer and the gate electrode. The etch stop layer includes fluorine. The channel layer may be on the gate electrode.

Thin film transistor and method of manufacturing the same

A transistor includes a channel layer including an oxynitride semiconductor doped with at least one of hafnium (Hf) and zirconium (Zr), a source on one side portion of the channel layer and a drain on another side portion of the channel layer, a gate corresponding to the channel layer, and a gate insulation layer between the channel layer and the gate.

Oxynitride channel layer, transistor including the same and method of manufacturing the same

A transistor may include a channel layer formed of an oxide semiconductor. The oxide semiconductor may include GaZnON, and a proportion of Ga content to a total content of Ga and Zn of the channel layer is about 0.5 to about 4.5 at %.

Transistors, methods of manufacturing the same, and electronic devices including transistors

An oxide transistor includes: a channel layer formed of an oxide semiconductor; a source electrode contacting a first end portion of the channel layer; a drain electrode contacting a second end portion of the channel layer; a gate corresponding to the channel layer; and a gate insulating layer disposed between the channel layer and the gate. The oxide semiconductor includes hafnium-indium-zinc-oxide (HfInZnO). An electrical conductivity of a back channel region of the channel layer is lower than an electrical conductivity of a front channel region of the channel layer.

Transistors, methods of manufacturing the same and electronic devices including transistors

Transistors having sulfur-doped zinc oxynitride channel layers, and methods of manufacturing the same, include a ZnON channel layer with sulfur content ratio with respect to a zinc content of from about 0.1 at % to about 1.2 at %, a source electrode and a drain electrode respectively formed on a first region and a second region of the channel layer, a gate electrode corresponding to the channel layer, and a gate insulation layer between the channel layer and the gate electrode.

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Joon-seok Park