Display Having Column Spacer Structures with Minimized Plastic Deformation

    公开(公告)号:US20170242286A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-24

    申请号:US15237489

    申请日:2016-08-15

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: A display may have a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A liquid crystal layer may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. Column spacer structures may be used to maintain a desired gap for the liquid crystal layer between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. The column spacer structures may include column spacers having bases and opposing tips. The tips may penetrate into the liquid crystal layer and may bear against the thin-film transistor layer or aligned column spacer pads on the thin-film transistor layer. The color filter layer may have a glass substrate, a black matrix on the substrate, a color filter element layer on the black matrix, and an overcoat on the color filter element layer. Some or all of the column spacers may have bases that contact the black matrix layer.

    Methods for forming image transport layers

    公开(公告)号:US11619779B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-04

    申请号:US16536733

    申请日:2019-08-09

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G02B6/08 H01L51/52

    摘要: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels and may have an input surface that receives the image from the pixels and a corresponding output surface on which the received image is viewable. The image transport layer may form an exterior surface of the electronic device or may be overlapped by a transparent cover layer. Various methods such as swelling, piping, and slumping may be used to process fibers and form image transport layers. A fiber bundle that is used to form an image transport layer may include fibers that have varying properties.