Summary of the invention
For it is above-mentioned refer in the prior art due between the second electrode lay and organic luminous layer bending when Yi Fasheng
The problem of separating, OLED device is caused to fail, the embodiment of the invention provides flexible display panels, flexible display apparatus and flexibilities
The preparation method of display panel.
On the one hand, the embodiment of the invention provides a kind of flexible display panels comprising array substrate, OLED device and thin
Film encapsulated layer;
The OLED device includes the first electrode layer being arranged in array substrate, is arranged in the first electrode layer
Organic luminous layer, and the second electrode lay being arranged on the organic luminous layer;The organic luminous layer includes multiple organic
Luminescence unit and pixel confining layer for separating multiple organic light-emitting units;The second electrode lay includes and multiple organic hairs
Light unit multiple second electrode blocks and multiple second electrode bridges correspondingly lead between two adjacent second electrode blocks
The second electrode bridging is crossed to connect;
The thin-film encapsulation layer covers each second electrode block, each second electrode bridge, and is embedded second electrode
It gap between block and is directly contacted with the pixel confining layer.
In a kind of wherein optional embodiment, multiple second electrode blocks are arranged in array-like.
In a kind of wherein optional embodiment, to be parallel to the face of array substrate as section, the second electrode block
Shape be square, diamond shape, rectangle, regular pentagon or regular hexagon.
In a kind of wherein optional embodiment, the second electrode block and the second electrode bridge are by a composition work
Skill is integrally formed.
In a kind of wherein optional embodiment, the thin-film encapsulation layer include stacking periods setting inorganic film and
Organic film, wherein the inorganic film for being located at the bottom covers each second electrode block, each second electrode bridge, and
It the gap that is embedded between each second electrode block and is directly contacted with the pixel confining layer.
In a kind of wherein optional embodiment, the first electrode layer includes a pair of with multiple organic light-emitting units one
The multiple first electrode blocks answered, and connect between two adjacent first electrode blocks by first electrode bridging;
The pixel confining layer covers the array between each first electrode bridge and each first electrode block
Substrate.
Another aspect, the embodiment of the invention provides a kind of flexible display apparatus comprising: it is as above described in any item soft
Property display panel.
On the other hand, the embodiment of the invention provides a kind of preparation methods of flexible display panels comprising:
First electrode layer is formed in array substrate;
The pixel confining layer with multiple openings is formed in the first electrode layer;
Organic light-emitting units are formed in each opening of the pixel confining layer, multiple organic light-emitting units compositions have
Machine luminescent layer;
The second electrode lay is formed in pixel confining layer and organic luminous layer, the second electrode lay includes multiple second electricity
Pole block and multiple second electrode bridges;Multiple second electrode blocks and multiple organic light-emitting units correspond, adjacent
It is connect between two second electrode blocks by a second electrode bridging;
Thin-film encapsulation layer is formed, the thin-film encapsulation layer covers each second electrode block, each second electrode bridge, and
It the gap that is embedded between second electrode block and is directly contacted with the pixel confining layer.
In a kind of wherein optional embodiment, the second electrode lay is formed in pixel confining layer and organic luminous layer
Step includes:
By fine metal mask, primary vapor deposition forms each second electrode block of the second electrode lay, each described second
Electrode bridge.
In a kind of wherein optional embodiment, the second electrode lay is formed in pixel confining layer and organic luminous layer
Step includes:
By fine metal mask, primary vapor deposition forms each second electrode block;
By fine metal mask, primary vapor deposition forms each second electrode bridge, and the second electrode bridging connects adjacent
Two second electrode blocks.
The preparation method of flexible display panels provided in an embodiment of the present invention, flexible display apparatus and flexible display panels
In, the second electrode lay being arranged on organic luminous layer includes and one-to-one multiple second electricity of multiple organic light-emitting units
Pole block and multiple second electrode bridges, and connect between two adjacent second electrode blocks by a second electrode bridging;Film
Encapsulated layer covers each second electrode block, each second electrode bridge, and the gap being embedded between second electrode block and limits with pixel
Layer directly contacts, and for the existing structure using thin-film encapsulation layer covering the second electrode lay, passes through thin-film encapsulation layer
Contact with pixel confining layer avoids the occurrence of so that the second electrode lay is bound between thin-film encapsulation layer and organic luminous layer
The problem of OLED device fails caused by it is easily separated between organic luminous layer.
Specific embodiment
Example embodiments are described in detail here, and the example is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.Following description is related to
When attached drawing, unless otherwise indicated, the same numbers in different drawings indicate the same or similar elements.Following exemplary embodiment
Described in embodiment do not represent all embodiments consistented with the present invention.On the contrary, they be only with it is such as appended
The example of device and method being described in detail in claims, some aspects of the invention are consistent.
Organic Light Emitting Diode (Organic Light-Emitting Diode, abbreviation OLED) device is a kind of self-luminous
Display device, its own film characteristics having makes it find broad application in flexible display technologies.
As previously described, generally with OLED device flexible display panels in, often need to be arranged thin-film encapsulation layer come every
Water or oxygen in exhausted environment, to prevent water in environment or oxygen from damaging to OLED device.And as shown in Figure 1, existing
It include the array substrate 10, OLED device 11 and thin-film encapsulation layer 12 being cascading in some flexible display panels,
In OLED device 11 include first electrode layer 111, organic luminous layer 112 and the second electrode lay 113 time being stacked, having
It include multiple organic light-emitting units 1121 and the pixel confining layer for separating multiple organic light-emitting units in machine luminescent layer 112
1122, the second electrode lay 113 is covered on the side of entire organic luminous layer 112, and the covering of thin-film encapsulation layer above-mentioned 12 is arranged
In side of the second electrode lay 113 far from the organic luminous layer 112.
In general, the second electrode lay 113 is prepared using metal mask evaporation process, due to preparation process's
Limitation, the metal ion when flexible display panels are bent in the second electrode lay 113 are easy the organic light emission depended on from it
112 surface of layer fall off, and the second electrode lay 113 is caused to separate with organic luminous layer 112, so that OLED device fails.
For the phenomenon, the embodiment of the invention provides a flexible display panels, flexible display apparatus and Flexible Displays faces
The preparation method of plate, the flexible display panels include at least array substrate, OLED device and thin-film encapsulation layer, wherein OLED device
The organic luminous layer for having the first electrode layer being arranged in array substrate, being arranged in first electrode layer is included at least in part, with
And the second electrode lay on organic luminous layer is set, and organic luminous layer then includes multiple organic light-emitting units, it is adjacent
It is isolated between organic light-emitting units using pixel confining layer.Unlike the prior art, the second electrode lay include with
Multiple organic light-emitting units multiple second electrode blocks and multiple second electrode bridges correspondingly, the second electrode bridge is by phase
Two adjacent second electrode blocks are attached, and by using the structure of such the second electrode lay, thin-film encapsulation layer is not only covered
On each second motor block and each second electrode bridge, but also in the gap being embedded between second electrode block, and and pixel
Confining layers directly contact.By using being arranged corresponding second electrode block one by one on each organic light-emitting units, and with the second electricity
Adjacent electrode block is attached the second electrode lay structure by pole bridge, may make the thin-film encapsulation layer positioned at the second electrode lay side with
And the pixel confining layer positioned at the second electrode lay other side directly contacts, thus by the second electrode lay be strapped in thin-film encapsulation layer and
Between organic luminous layer, so that the metal ion in the second electrode lay can not be escaped from organic light emission layer surface, effectively increase
Binding force between the second electrode lay and organic luminous layer, prevents the second electrode lay from separating with organic luminous layer.
How technical solution of the present invention and technical solution of the present invention are solved with specifically embodiment below above-mentioned
Technical problem is described in detail.These following specific embodiments can be combined with each other, for the same or similar general
Thought or process may repeat no more in certain embodiments.Below in conjunction with attached drawing, the embodiment of the present invention is described.
Flexible display panels described in the embodiment of the present invention can be the display for only having display function, can also be to provide behaviour
Make the intelligent terminal of interactive function, the embodiment of the present invention is to form existing for it without any restrictions.
It easily separates, causes in bending in order to solve the second electrode lay existing in the prior art with organic luminous layer
The problem of OLED device fails, Fig. 2 are a kind of structural side view of flexible display panels provided in an embodiment of the present invention;Fig. 3 is
A kind of structure top view of flexible display panels provided in an embodiment of the present invention.
It should be noted that first electrode layer documented by the embodiment of the present invention specifically can be referred to the anode in OLED device
Metal layer, and the second electrode lay specifically can be referred to the cathode metal layer in OLED device;Certainly, due to the difference of OLED device type
Different, which can also refer to the cathode metal layer in OLED device, and the second electrode lay specifically can be referred to OLED device
In anode metal layer.
As shown in Figures 2 and 3, flexible display panels include array substrate 20, OLED device and thin-film encapsulation layer 22, described
OLED device includes the first electrode layer 211 being arranged in array substrate 20, the organic light emission being arranged in first electrode layer 211
Layer, and the second electrode lay 213 being arranged on organic luminous layer;The organic luminous layer includes multiple organic light-emitting units
2121 and the pixel confining layer 2122 for separating multiple organic light-emitting units 2121;The second electrode lay 213 includes having with multiple
The one-to-one multiple second electrode blocks 2131 of machine luminescence unit 2121 and multiple second electrode bridges 2132, adjacent two
It is connected between second electrode block 2131 by second electrode bridge 2132;Thin-film encapsulation layer 22 covers each second electrode block 2131, each
Second electrode bridge 2132, and the gap that is embedded between second electrode block 2131 and directly contacted with pixel confining layer 2122.
Particularly, Fig. 3 is the top view of flexible display panels in present embodiment, not to Fig. 2 knot in structure shown in the Fig. 3
Thin-film encapsulation layer 22 in structure is illustrated, and passes through multiple second electrode blocks 2131 and multiple second electrode bridges 2132 in Fig. 3
The second electrode lay as shown in Figure 3 can be formed, when thin-film encapsulation layer 22 is packaged the second electrode lay, part thin-film package
Layer 22 will directly be contacted with the pixel confining layer 2122 in Fig. 3, and rest part thin-film encapsulation layer 22 will be contacted with the second electrode lay.
The stronger characteristic of the adhesion strength between thin-film encapsulation layer and pixel confining layer is utilized in present embodiment, passes through film
Encapsulated layer is directly contacted with pixel confining layer, and the second electrode lay is strapped between thin-film encapsulation layer and organic luminous layer, from
And escape the metal ion in the second electrode lay can not from organic light emission layer surface, effectively increase the second electrode lay with it is organic
Binding force between luminescent layer.
In the present embodiment, multiple second electrode blocks 2131 are arranged in array-like.Specifically, general flexible aobvious
Show in panel, since organic light-emitting units 2121 are array-like to be presented to arrange, and each second electrode block 2131 is and organic hair
What light unit 2121 was accordingly arranged one by one, i.e., second electrode block 2131 is also arranged using array-like.
Preferably, to be parallel to the face of array substrate as section, the shape of second electrode block 2131 is square, diamond shape,
Rectangle, regular pentagon or regular hexagon can be improved stability of the second electrode block in bending using regular polygon, avoid
The problem of second electrode block deformation caused by discharging folding s tress when second electrode block 2131 is bent unevenly.
Preferably, second electrode block 2131 and second electrode bridge 2132 are integrally formed by a patterning processes.Specifically,
Patterning processes specifically can refer to masking process, such as fine mask technique.Being integrally formed by using a patterning processes should
Second electrode block and second electrode bridge simplify system compared with making second electrode block 2131 and second electrode bridge 2132 respectively
Make technique, and can avoid caused by second electrode block and second electrode bridge technology defect occur in connection under device performance
Drop.
Preferably, thin-film encapsulation layer 22 includes the inorganic film and organic film of stacking periods setting, wherein being located at most bottom
The inorganic film of layer covers each second electrode block 2131, each second electrode bridge 2132, and be embedded each second electrode block 2131 it
Between gap and directly contacted with pixel confining layer 2122.Specifically, in the present embodiment, thin-film encapsulation layer includes multiple heaps
The encapsulation unit of folded setting, each encapsulation unit include the inorganic film being made of inorganic matter and the organic film that is made of organic matter
Layer.In the preferably embodiment, directly contacting with pixel confining layer is inorganic film in thin-film encapsulation layer, on the one hand,
The inorganic film can provide effective isolation of steam and oxygen for OLED device.On the other hand, relative to metal and organic matter
Bonding for, the bonding of the organic matter in inorganic film and pixel confining layer more strength, that is to say, that in thin-film encapsulation layer
Inorganic film and pixel confining layer adhesiveness it is stronger, stronger packet can be provided for the second electrode lay and organic light-emitting units
It wraps up in and supports, the two is avoided to remove.
Fig. 4 is the structural side view of another flexible display panels provided in an embodiment of the present invention, and shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3
Similarly, which includes array substrate 20, OLED device and thin-film encapsulation layer 22, the OLED device to structure
Part includes the first electrode layer 211 being arranged in array substrate 20, the organic luminous layer being arranged in first electrode layer 211, with
And the second electrode lay 213 on organic luminous layer is set;The organic luminous layer includes multiple 2121 Hes of organic light-emitting units
For separating the pixel confining layer 2122 of multiple organic light-emitting units;The second electrode lay includes and multiple organic light-emitting units
2121 one-to-one multiple second electrode blocks 2131 and multiple second electrode bridges 2132, two adjacent second electrode blocks
It is connected between 2131 by the second electrode bridge 2132;Thin-film encapsulation layer 22 covers each second electrode block 2131, each institute
Second electrode bridge 2132 is stated, and the gap being embedded between second electrode block 2131 and is directly connect with the pixel confining layer 2122
Touching.
Unlike structure shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, in structure shown in Fig. 4, the first electrode layer 211 include with it is multiple
The one-to-one multiple first electrode blocks 2111 of organic light-emitting units 2121, and lead between two adjacent first electrode blocks 2111
Cross the connection of first electrode bridge 2112;Pixel confining layer 2122 covers each first electrode bridge 2112 and each first electrode
The array substrate 20 between block 2111.
Similarly such as aforementioned embodiments, first electrode layer documented by the present invention specifically can be referred in OLED device
Anode metal layer, and the second electrode lay specifically can be referred to the cathode metal layer in OLED device;Certainly, due to OLED device type
Difference, which can also refer to the cathode metal layer in OLED device, and the second electrode lay specifically can be referred to OLED
Anode metal layer in device.
In embodiment shown in Fig. 4, similarly with the second electrode lay structure, first electrode layer may also comprise with
The one-to-one multiple first electrode blocks 2111 of multiple organic light-emitting units 2121, and it is connected to two adjacent first electrodes
First electrode bridge 2112 between block 2111, and pixel confining layer 2122 covers each first electrode bridge 2112 and each first electrode
In the array substrate 20 between block 2111.By using such mode, first electrode bridge 2112 and pixel can be enhanced
Binding force between confining layers 2122 prevents each first electrode block 2111 from separating with corresponding organic light-emitting units.
The embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of flexible display apparatus, which has specifically included aforementioned any
Flexible display panels described in embodiment.
Wherein, as in the foregoing embodiment, flexible display panels are utilized between thin-film encapsulation layer and pixel confining layer
The stronger characteristic of adhesion strength the second electrode lay is strapped in thin by directly contacting for thin-film encapsulation layer and pixel confining layer
Between film encapsulated layer and organic luminous layer, to make the metal ion in the second electrode lay that can not escape from organic light emission layer surface
It is de-, effectively increase the binding force between the second electrode lay and organic luminous layer, and then improve flexible display apparatus curved
Device performance when folding.
In addition, Fig. 5 is the embodiment of the present invention the embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of preparation method of flexible display panels
The flow diagram of the preparation method of the flexible display panels of offer.As shown in figure 5, this method comprises:
Step 101 forms first electrode layer in array substrate.
Step 102 forms the pixel confining layer with multiple openings in first electrode layer.
Step 103 forms organic light-emitting units, multiple organic light-emitting units structures in each opening of pixel confining layer
At organic luminous layer.
Step 104 forms the second electrode lay in pixel confining layer and organic luminous layer, and the second electrode lay includes more
A second electrode block and multiple second electrode bridges;Multiple second electrode blocks and multiple organic light-emitting units one are a pair of
It answers, is connect between two adjacent second electrode blocks by a second electrode bridging.
Step 105 forms thin-film encapsulation layer, and the thin-film encapsulation layer covers each second electrode block, each described second
Electrode bridge, and the gap that is embedded between second electrode block and directly contacted with the pixel confining layer.
In the preparation method for the flexible display panels that present embodiment provides, by using in pixel confining layer and organic hair
Formation includes the mode of the second electrode lay of multiple second electrode blocks and multiple second electrode bridges on photosphere, and thin-film encapsulation layer is covered
Each second electrode block and each second electrode bridge are covered, and the gap being embedded between second electrode block and straight with the pixel confining layer
Contact.Flexible display panels are formed by using the preparation method, are utilized between thin-film encapsulation layer and pixel confining layer
The stronger characteristic of adhesion strength is contacted with the direct of pixel confining layer by thin-film encapsulation layer, the second electrode lay is strapped in film
Between encapsulated layer and organic luminous layer, thus escape the metal ion in the second electrode lay can not from organic light emission layer surface,
Effectively increase the binding force between the second electrode lay and organic luminous layer.
Specifically, in order to advanced optimize the preparation method, second is formed in pixel confining layer and organic luminous layer
During electrode layer, fine metal mask technique specifically can be used, to reduce the number of preparation process, prepared by reduction
Occurs the probability of flaw during OLED device.
In a kind of wherein optional embodiment, the second electrode lay tool is formed in pixel confining layer and organic luminous layer
Body can be by fine metal mask, and primary vapor deposition forms each second electrode block, each second electrode bridge of the second electrode lay.
In wherein another optional embodiment, the second electrode lay is formed in pixel confining layer and organic luminous layer
Specifically can be by fine metal mask, primary vapor deposition forms each second electrode block;Then, primary to steam by fine metal mask
Plating forms each second electrode bridge, and the second electrode bridging connects two adjacent second electrode blocks.
The preparation method for the flexible display panels that present embodiment provides, the flexible display panels prepared, due to the
Two electrode layers include with multiple organic light-emitting units multiple second electrode blocks and multiple second electrode bridges correspondingly, and
It is connect between two adjacent second electrode blocks by a second electrode bridging;Thin-film encapsulation layer covers each second electrode block, each
Second electrode bridge, and the gap that is embedded between second electrode block and directly contacted with pixel confining layer, it is adopted relative to existing
For structure with thin-film encapsulation layer covering the second electrode lay, contact by thin-film encapsulation layer with pixel confining layer, so that the
Two electrode layers are bound between thin-film encapsulation layer and organic luminous layer, are avoided the occurrence of it and are easily occurred to divide between organic luminous layer
The problem of OLED device fails from caused by.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention., rather than its limitations;To the greatest extent
Pipe present invention has been described in detail with reference to the aforementioned embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that: its according to
So be possible to modify the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or to some or all of the technical features into
Row equivalent replacement;And these are modified or replaceed, various embodiments of the present invention technology that it does not separate the essence of the corresponding technical solution
The range of scheme.