Lg Display Co., Ltd.

Ui-Jin Chung

Ki-tae Kim

So-Young Noh

Hyuk Ji

Kyeong-Ju Moon

A display apparatus can include a buffer layer on a flexible substrate; a first thin film transistor on the buffer layer including a first semiconductor pattern, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode and a first drain electrode, a second thin film transistor including a second semiconductor pattern, a second gate electrode, a second source electrode and a second drain electrode, and a passivation layer on the first and the second thin film transistors. Also, the display apparatus includes a planarization layer, a light-emitting device including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode on the planarization layer, and an encapsulating element on the light-emitting device. Also, the light-emitting device is electrically connected to the first thin film transistor, the first semiconductor pattern includes silicon, and the second semiconductor pattern includes an oxide semiconductor pattern, and the second gate electrode includes lower and upper electrodes.

Display apparatus having an oxide semiconductor pattern

A display apparatus can include a driving circuit on a device substrate, the driving circuit including a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor, a first insulating layer on the first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor of the driving circuit, a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer, and a light-emitting device on the second insulating layer, the light-emitting device being electrically connected to the second thin film transistor of the driving circuit. Each of the first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor includes an oxide semiconductor pattern and a gate electrode overlapping a portion of the oxide semiconductor pattern. The gate electrode has a stacked structure of a first hydrogen barrier layer and a low-resistance electrode.

A display apparatus in which a thin film transistor includes an oxide semiconductor pattern is disclosed. A gate electrode of the thin film transistor can overlap a channel region of the oxide semiconductor pattern. The gate electrode can have a structure in which a hydrogen barrier layer and a low-resistance electrode layer are stacked. A light-emitting device and an encapsulating element can be sequentially stacked on the thin film transistor. A thickness of the hydrogen barrier layer can be determined by a content of hydrogen per unit area of the encapsulating element. Thus, in the display apparatus, the characteristics deterioration of the thin film transistor due to hydrogen diffused from the encapsulating element can be prevented.

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Goyang-si, South Korea

Ui-Jin Chung