Liquid Crystal Displays With Minimized Transmission Loss and Enhanced Off-Axis Color Fidelity
    1.
    发明申请
    Liquid Crystal Displays With Minimized Transmission Loss and Enhanced Off-Axis Color Fidelity 有权
    具有最小化传输损耗和增强的离轴色彩保真度的液晶显示器

    公开(公告)号:US20160209691A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-21

    申请号:US14850006

    申请日:2015-09-10

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may have upper and lower display layers. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the upper and lower display layers. The display layers may have substrates. The display layers may include a color filter layer having an array of color filter elements on a glass substrate and a thin-film transistor layer having a layer of thin-film transistor circuitry on a glass substrate. Dielectric layers within the display layers such as dielectric layers within the thin-film transistor layer may have differing indices of refraction. Reflections and color shifts due to index of refraction discontinuities may be minimized by interposing graded index dielectric layers between adjacent layers with different indices. The graded index layers may be formed from structures with a continuously varying index of refraction or structures with a step-wise varying index of refraction.

    Abstract translation: 显示器可以具有上和下显示层。 可以在上显示层和下显示层之间插入一层液晶材料。 显示层可以具有基底。 显示层可以包括在玻璃基板上具有滤色器元件阵列的滤色器层和在玻璃基板上具有薄膜晶体管电路层的薄膜晶体管层。 诸如薄膜晶体管层内的介电层的显示层内的电介质层可以具有不同的折射率。 由于折射不连续指数引起的反射和颜色偏移可以通过在不同指数的相邻层之间插入渐变折射率介电层来最小化。 渐变折射率层可以由具有连续变化的折射率的结构或具有逐步变化的折射率的结构形成。

    Liquid Crystal Displays with Oxide-Based Thin-Film Transistors
    2.
    发明申请
    Liquid Crystal Displays with Oxide-Based Thin-Film Transistors 有权
    具有氧化物薄膜晶体管的液晶显示器

    公开(公告)号:US20150055047A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-26

    申请号:US14228070

    申请日:2014-03-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以包括在基板上具有显示像素阵列的显示器。 显示像素可以是液晶显示器中的有机发光二极管显示像素或显示像素。 在有机发光二极管显示器中,可以形成包括半导体氧化物薄膜晶体管,硅薄膜晶体管和电容器结构的混合薄膜晶体管结构。 电容器结构可以与半导体氧化物薄膜晶体管重叠。 有机发光二极管显示像素可以具有氧化物和硅晶体管的组合。 在液晶显示器中,显示驱动器电路可以包括硅薄膜晶体管电路,显示像素可以基于氧化物薄膜晶体管。 可以在形成硅晶体管栅极和氧化物晶体管栅极中使用单层或两层不同的栅极金属层。 硅晶体管可以具有与浮动栅极结构重叠的栅极。

    DIFFERENT LIGHTLY DOPED DRAIN LENGTH CONTROL FOR SELF-ALIGN LIGHT DRAIN DOPING PROCESS
    3.
    发明申请
    DIFFERENT LIGHTLY DOPED DRAIN LENGTH CONTROL FOR SELF-ALIGN LIGHT DRAIN DOPING PROCESS 有权
    用于自对准排水过程的不同的轻型排水长度控制

    公开(公告)号:US20140103349A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-17

    申请号:US13801261

    申请日:2013-03-13

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating thin-film transistors (TFTs) for an LCD having an array of pixels. The method includes depositing a first photoresist layer over a portion of a TFT stack. The TFT stack includes a conductive gate layer, and a semiconductor layer. The method also includes doping the exposed semiconductor layer with a first doping dose. The method further includes etching a portion of the conductive gate layer to expose a portion of the semiconductor layer, and doping the exposed portion of the semiconductor layer with a second doping dose. The method also includes removing the first photoresist layer, and depositing a second photoresist layer over a first portion of the doped semiconductor layer in an active area of the pixels to expose a second portion of the doped semiconductor layer in an area surrounding the active area. The method further includes doping the second portion of the doped semiconductor layer with a third doping dose, the first dose being higher than the second dose and the third dose.

    Abstract translation: 提供了一种制造用于具有像素阵列的LCD的薄膜晶体管(TFT)的方法。 该方法包括在TFT堆叠的一部分上沉积第一光致抗蚀剂层。 TFT堆叠包括导电栅极层和半导体层。 该方法还包括以第一掺杂剂量掺杂暴露的半导体层。 该方法还包括蚀刻导电栅极层的一部分以暴露半导体层的一部分,并以第二掺杂剂量掺杂半导体层的暴露部分。 该方法还包括去除第一光致抗蚀剂层,以及在像素的有源区域中在掺杂半导体层的第一部分上沉积第二光致抗蚀剂层,以在围绕有源区域的区域中暴露掺杂半导体层的第二部分。 该方法还包括以第三掺杂剂量掺杂掺杂半导体层的第二部分,第一剂量高于第二剂量和第三剂量。

    Display with Column Spacer Structures
    8.
    发明申请
    Display with Column Spacer Structures 有权
    用柱间隔结构显示

    公开(公告)号:US20150198844A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-07-16

    申请号:US14473342

    申请日:2014-08-29

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may have a layer of liquid crystal material between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. Column spacer structures may be formed between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer to maintain a desired separation between the color filter and thin-film transistor layers. Column spacers may be deposited in column spacer regions of the color filter layer. The color filter layer may include rows of red, green, and blue color filter elements. Blue color filter material that forms blue color filter elements in the color filter layer may also be used to form a planar surface over red and green color filter elements in the column spacer regions. Using the blue color filter material to planarize the surface on which column spacers are formed ensures that the column spacers provide sufficient support for the display without requiring an additional planarization layer.

    Abstract translation: 显示器可以在滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层之间具有液晶材料层。 可以在滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层之间形成柱间隔结构,以保持滤色器和薄膜晶体管层之间期望的间隔。 柱间隔物可以沉积在滤色器层的柱间隔区域中。 滤色器层可以包括红色,绿色和蓝色滤色器元件的行。 在滤色器层中形成蓝色滤色器元件的蓝色滤色器材料也可以用于在柱间隔区域中的红色和绿色滤色器元件上形成平面。 使用蓝色滤色器材料来平坦化其上形成有柱间隔物的表面确保柱间隔物为显示器提供足够的支撑,而不需要额外的平坦化层。

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